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The middle Congo River and its tributaries from the east are the principal domestic waterways in the DRC. The two principal river routes are: Kinshasa to Mbandaka and Kisangani on the River Congo; Kinshasa to Ilebo on the Kasai River; See the diagrammatic transport map above for other river waterways. The most-used domestic lake waterways are:
Great lakes line first section (believed operational in 2022): Kisangani (Congo River port) to Ubundu (upper Congo River port). 125 km, [4] 1,000 mm (3 ft 3 + 3 ⁄ 8 in) gauge. [11] This line is a bypass (portage railway) of the Stanley Falls on the Congo River. A train runs after arrival at Kisangani of a ship from Kinshasa or before ...
Station name Route(s) Aketi Aketi – Bumba Aketi – Isiro Andoma (Liénart) : Aketi – Isiro Bangu Kinshasa Est – Matadi Bukama Ilebo – Lubumbashi Kabalo – Lubumbashi
The Gare de l'Est, also known as Kinshasa Est or Kinshasa Central Station (French: Gare centrale de Kinshasa), is a central railway station situated in the Gombe commune of Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Positioned along the Matadi–Kinshasa Railway line, it functions as a pivotal transshipment point connecting the railway and the ...
A map of Kinshasa presenting its Communes. Kinshasa is both a city (ville in French) and a province, one of the 26 provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Nevertheless, it has city subdivisions and is divided into 24 communes (municipalities), which in turn are divided into 369 quarters and 21 embedded groupings. [66]
The Kinshasa Urban Train (MetroKin) is a proposed urban rail network which would serve the Kinshasa metropolitan area. In February 2023, the Africa Finance Corporation (AFC) signed a joint development agreement with Trans Connexion Congo (TCC) to jointly develop the rail network. [ 1 ]
The Matadi–Kinshasa Railway was built between 1890 and 1898 in order to bypass the series of rapids and falls which hindered access from the South Atlantic Ocean to the Congo Basin. [1] Its length is 366 km (227 mi) and it is run by Société commerciale des transports et des ports (SCTP) (until 2011, ONATRA ).
The Democratic Republic of the Congo [b] (DRC), also known as the DR Congo, Congo-Kinshasa, or simply the Congo, is a country in Central Africa. By land area, it is the second-largest country in Africa and the 11th-largest in the world.