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Selembao

Selembao is one of the 24 communes that are the administrative divisions of Kinshasa, the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Selembao
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The place

Selembao is one of the 24 communes that are the administrative divisions of Kinshasa, the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Covering over 23.2 square kilometers and with an estimated population of 1,038,819 as of 2015, it is bordered to the north by the communes of Bandalungwa and Bumbu, to the northeast by Bumbu, to the south by Mont Ngafula, to the east by Makala, and to the west by Ngaliema.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Selembao

Airports
Maya-Maya (BZV), 14 km · Ndjili (FIH), 18 km
  • Pointe Noire → Selembao
    383 km · quickest by air, 4h 17m · $160–230
  • Luanda → Selembao
    543 km · quickest by air, 5h 31m · $230–350
  • Luanda (Ícolo e Bengo) → Selembao
    555 km · quickest by air, 7h 31m · $320–480
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Selembao

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 Selembao. 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

    1,099 km
  2. 02
    Bwindi Impenetrable National ParkUG

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

    1,645 km
  3. 03
    Ssese IslandsUG

    11 ways of moving, 14 sources

    1,934 km
  4. 04
    EntebbeUG

    9 ways of moving, 37 sources

    1,970 km
  5. 05
    South Luangwa National Park and MfuweZM

    12 ways of moving, 36 sources

    2,055 km

If you know how people move in Selembao – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Selembao

Selembao is 6 km from Kinshasa, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Kasa-Vubucommune in the center of the city of Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo3.8 km
  • Ngabacommune in the south of the city of Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo3.9 km
  • Funa Districtdistrict of Kinshasa, DR Congo1.9 km