There are tributaries of the Congo River to the north and south of the town.[2] Kimpese has a hospital, medical training centre, high school, technical training institute and an agricultural college.[3][4] The 400 bed Kimpese hospital serves 150,000 people in the local area and another 600,000 in the surrounding district.[5] The town also contains an office of the UNHCR, which provides assistance to the nearly 60,000 Angolan refugees in Kongo Central province.[6] Kimpeses population is approximately 40,000; and although DRC is a mainly catholic country, the town has a Protestant majority.[7]
kimpese, town, cataractes, district, congo, province, democratic, republic, congo, lies, main, road, railway, between, kinshasa, provincial, capital, matadi, altitude, above, level, location, democratic, republic, congocoordinates, 56306, 44583, 56306, 44583co. Kimpese is a town in the Cataractes District of Bas Congo province Democratic Republic of the Congo It lies on the main road and railway between Kinshasa and the provincial capital Matadi at an altitude of 990 ft 301 m above sea level 1 KimpeseKimpeseLocation in Democratic Republic of the CongoCoordinates 5 33 47 S 14 26 45 E 5 56306 S 14 44583 E 5 56306 14 44583CountryDemocratic Republic of the CongoProvinceBas CongoThere are tributaries of the Congo River to the north and south of the town 2 Kimpese has a hospital medical training centre high school technical training institute and an agricultural college 3 4 The 400 bed Kimpese hospital serves 150 000 people in the local area and another 600 000 in the surrounding district 5 The town also contains an office of the UNHCR which provides assistance to the nearly 60 000 Angolan refugees in Kongo Central province 6 Kimpeses population is approximately 40 000 and although DRC is a mainly catholic country the town has a Protestant majority 7 See also editRailway stations in DRCongoReferences edit Kimpese Map Democratic Republic of the Congo Google Satellite Maps maplandia com Archived from the original on 2012 10 24 Retrieved 2009 02 11 National Geographic Atlas of the World Revised Sixth Edition National Geographic Society 1992 who int andrewbond ch Archived 2011 02 18 at the Wayback Machine etrs org Archived from the original on 2008 10 14 Retrieved 2009 02 11 europaworld org americanbible org Archived from the original on 2008 06 18 Retrieved 2009 02 11 nbsp This Democratic Republic of the Congo location article is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Kimpese amp oldid 1012298670, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
