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Ndjili, Kinshasa

Ndjili is a commune in the Tshangu District of Kinshasa.

Ndjili, Kinshasa
Ndjili, Kinshasa · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Ndjili is a commune in the Tshangu District of Kinshasa. Named after the Ndjili River, which forms its western boundary, the commune covers an area of approximately 11.4 square kilometers and had an estimated population of 1,157,619 as of 2015, making it the fifth-most populous commune. Ndjili is connected to the city center by Lumumba Boulevard, a major 13-kilometer-long highway.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Ndjili, Kinshasa

Airports
Ndjili (FIH), 8 km · Maya-Maya (BZV), 22 km
  • Pointe Noire → Ndjili, Kinshasa
    393 km · quickest by air, 6h 43m · $200–300
  • Luanda → Ndjili, Kinshasa
    546 km · quickest by air, 5h 5m · $210–320
  • Luanda (Ícolo e Bengo) → Ndjili, Kinshasa
    546 km · quickest by air, 5h 5m · $210–330
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No local-transport research exists yet for Ndjili, Kinshasa

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Ndjili, Kinshasa. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inYou might be successful with a 4x4 in the upper northern region (Bangassou - Nia Nia - Isiro) and maybe the axis Kinshasa - Lumumbashi.
  • Get inThere are speed boats that go quickly for a limited number of people, or you can take the barge with local merchants if you have time.
  • Get inAsk to go to , which is the ferry terminal.

From Wikivoyage: Kinshasa, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-07.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    PríncipeST

    7 ways of moving, 13 sources

    1,110 km
  2. 02
    Bwindi Impenetrable National ParkUG

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

    1,636 km
  3. 03
    Ssese IslandsUG

    11 ways of moving, 14 sources

    1,926 km
  4. 04
    EntebbeUG

    9 ways of moving, 37 sources

    1,961 km
  5. 05
    South Luangwa National Park and MfuweZM

    12 ways of moving, 36 sources

    2,045 km

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Around it

Next door to Ndjili, Kinshasa

Ndjili, Kinshasa is 3 km from Masina, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Ndjilicommune of the district of Tshangu, in the city of Kinshasa, located south of the commune of Masina in the Democratic Republic of Congo600 m
  • KisensoA commune in the south of the city of Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.3.2 km