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The city was founded as a trading post by
Henry Morton Stanley in 1881 and was named L�opoldville in honour of King
Leopold II of Belgium who owned what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo.
The city was reamed Kinshasa in 1966.
Zeljko Heimer, 22 Jul 1997
The current municipal flag of Kinshasa is white with the city emblem in the
centre.
Tomislav �ipek, 14 Apr 2017
This is a �reconstructed� image based on description in The Complete Guide
William Cramption (1990) [cra90b] which
describes the flag of Kinshasa as being "Blue with a white wavy stripe surmounted by the letter K and two stars,
all yellow".
Zeljko Heimer, 22 Jul 1997
I've seen the flag for Kinshasa in two variants:
(1) with the stars on sides of an initial K, and
(2) with the initial K positioned near hoist, with the stars arranged
vertically to its right [which was the way I saw it years ago in a late
1960s flag book at a library in Wiscasset, ME USA].
Robert Lloyd Wheelock, 18 Feb 2001
The flag L�opoldville was the same as the
initial version of the flag of Kinshasa, but with an "L" instead of a "K".
Jaume Oll�, 27 Jul 1997