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Kinshasa

City · Congo (Kinshasa)

About this place

Natural Earth classifies Kinshasa as admin-0 capital in Congo (Kinshasa), Kinshasa City. 4PLANET ATLAS represents Kinshasa as a stable geographic object at Natural Earth reference coordinate -4.327778, 15.313026. The coordinate is used to open the intended map context; it is not an administrative boundary, ecological boundary or claim about conditions across the whole place.

Geographic context: Congo (Kinshasa). A canonical parent object is not yet published in this cohort.

Verified geographic hierarchy: Kinshasa City → Congo (Kinshasa) → Middle Africa → Africa.

Source identity: Natural Earth NE_ID 1159151539 · ISO CD · Wikidata Q3838 · GeoNames 2314302.

Open Kinshasa in ATLAS. The handoff carries the same place slug and reference coordinate so the geographic entry point and interactive map resolve to the same object.

Living Planet Intelligence

Geographic identity is published independently from ecological interpretation. Living Systems, Species, Pressures, Missions, Evidence and Solutions are connected here only when the shared 4PLANET evidence model supports the relationship. Until then, those relationships remain unknown rather than being inferred from the place name.

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Source and provenance

Geographic source: Natural Earth 1:50m Populated Places v5.1.2. Source feature 1159151539 · upstream file 3fad8f0038ba. Natural Earth data is public domain; terms of use. Source reference checked 2026-10-07.

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