金夏沙

Jīnxiàshā

proper noun #54,653

Meanings

HSK 2

他们从金夏沙飞往布鲁塞尔。

Tāmen cóng Jīnxiàshā fēiwǎng Bùlǔsài'ěr.

They flew from Kinshasa to Brussels.

HSK 5

金夏沙是非洲最大的法语城市之一。

Jīnxiàshā shì Fēizhōu zuì dà de Fǎyǔ chéngshì zhīyī.

Kinshasa is one of the largest French-speaking cities in Africa.

usage

金夏沙 is the Taiwan-standard transliteration. Mainland sources usually write 金沙萨 for the same city.

history

Known as Léopoldville (利奥波德维尔) until 1966, when President Mobutu renamed it as part of his Africanization name-rectification campaign.

金 jīn

夏 xià

沙 shā