Lukunga District

{{Infobox settlement  | name = Lukunga District | native_name = | native_name_lang =  | settlement_type = | image_skyline = | image_alt = | image_caption = | image_flag = | flag_alt = | image_seal = | seal_alt = | image_shield = | shield_alt = | nickname = | motto = | mottoeng = | image_map = Kinshasa districts.svg | map_alt = | map_caption = Kinshasa districts and communes, Lukunga to the west | pushpin_map = | pushpin_label_position = | pushpin_map_alt = | pushpin_map_caption = | coordinates = {{coord|4.3054|S|15.3032|E|region:CD|display=inline,title}} | coor_pinpoint = | coordinates_footnotes = | subdivision_type = Country | subdivision_name = {{flag|DR Congo}} | subdivision_type1 = City-Province | subdivision_name1 = Kinshasa | subdivision_type2 = | subdivision_name2 = | subdivision_type3 = | subdivision_name3 = | established_title = | established_date = | founder = | seat_type = | seat = | government_footnotes = | leader_party = | leader_title = | leader_name = | unit_pref = Metric | area_footnotes = | area_total_km2 = | area_land_km2 = | area_water_km2 = | area_water_percent = | area_note = | elevation_footnotes = | elevation_m = | population_footnotes = | population_total = | population_as_of = | population_density_km2 = auto | population_demonym = | population_note = | timezone1 = | utc_offset1 = | timezone1_DST = | utc_offset1_DST = | postal_code_type = | postal_code = | area_code_type = | area_code = | iso_code = | website =  | footnotes = }} '''Lukunga''' is an area of the capital city of Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, comprising seven of the city-province's twenty-four administrative divisions—the communes of Barumbu, Gombe, Kinshasa, Kintambo, Lingwala, Mont Ngafula and Ngaliema. It is one of the four so-called districts of Kinshasa. These were the administrative divisions of Kinshasa during much of the Mobutu years (1965-1997),<ref>{{cite web |title=Ordonnance 77-100 du 6 avril 1977 fixant les limites de la ville de Kinshasa, ainsi que le nombre de ses sous-régions et zones, leur dénomination et leurs limites |url=https://www.droitcongolais.info/files/1_yj95g9m8.10.5.8.-Ordonnance-du-6-avril-1977_Ville-de-Kinshasa_Zones-et-limites.pdf |website=www.droitcongolais.info |access-date=21 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160818032417/https://www.droitcongolais.info/files/1_yj95g9m8.10.5.8.-Ordonnance-du-6-avril-1977_Ville-de-Kinshasa_Zones-et-limites.pdf |archive-date=18 Aug 2016 |at=Art. 2-3 |language=fr |url-status=live}}</ref> around which a number of government systems and services are still organized. For instance, Lukunga makes up a fourteen-member National Assembly constituency designated as '''Kinshasa I'''.<ref>{{cite web |title=Annexes a la loi portant adoption de la repartition des sieges par circonscription electorale pour les elections legislatives |url=https://www.ceni.cd/assets/bundles/documents/cadre-legal/cadre-legal_1531157427.pdf#page=4 |website=www.ceni.cd |publisher=CENI |access-date=10 May 2019 |pages=4,9 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180920234927/https://www.ceni.cd/assets/bundles/documents/cadre-legal/cadre-legal_1531157427.pdf |archive-date= 20 Sep 2018 |url-status=live |language=fr}}</ref> However, these districts are not part of Congo's territorial organization.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Institut National de la Statistique–RD Congo |title=Annuaire Statistique RDC 2017 |date=2019 |url=http://ins.mkbco.pro/Portals/0/OpenContent/Files/19172/ANNUAIRE_STATISTIQUE_2017_.pdf#page=36 |access-date=22 August 2020 |at=p. 36 Tableau 1.2 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200614222103/http://ins.mkbco.pro/Portals/0/OpenContent/Files/19172/ANNUAIRE_STATISTIQUE_2017_.pdf |archive-date=14 June 2020 |language=fr |url-status=live}}</ref>

The district takes its name from the Lukunga River.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pLT4-LECDJwC&pg=PA132 |title=Kinshasa: ville et environnement |page=132 |first=Francis Lelo |last=Nzuzi |publisher=Editions L'Harmattan |year=2008 |isbn=978-2-296-06080-7}}</ref> This is a critical source of water for the district, compromised by silting.<ref>{{cite web |ref={{harvid|Watershed degradation...}} |url=http://postconflict.unep.ch/congo/en/content/watershed-degradation-increases-water-treatment-costs |title=Watershed degradation increases water treatment costs |work=UNEP DR Congo |year=2008 |access-date=2011-11-30}}</ref>

<gallery widths="300px" heights="240px"> File:F Theatre de verdure Ngaliema.jpg|Théâtre de Verdure, an open-air theater in Ngaliema, 1974 File:Kinshasa 2003.jpg|The boulevard of 30 June in Gombe, Kinshasa </gallery>

==References== {{Portal|Democratic Republic of the Congo}} {{reflist}}

{{Communes of Kinshasa}} Category:Districts of Kinshasa Category:Lukunga District