一九六○年六月三十日,幅员居非洲第三位的扎伊尔获得了独立。近二十年过去了,扎伊尔首都金沙萨同比利时统治时期相比,面积从二千平方公里扩大为一万平方公里,人口从四十万增加到二百五十万,成为中非最大的都市。更大的变化是:她不再是外国冒险家的乐园,而是一个第三世界主权国家日夜跳动着的心脏。十九世纪八十年代,这座城市以比利时国王利奥波德的名字命名,称为利奥波德维尔。为铲 On June 30, 1960 Zaire, who ranks third in Africa, gained independence. Nearly two decades later, the capital of Zaire, Kinshasa, expanded from 2,000 square kilometers to 10,000 square kilometers and population increased from 400,000 to 2.5 million compared with the days of Belgian rule, making it the largest metropolitan city in Central Africa . The bigger change is that she is no longer a paradise for foreign adventurers, but a beating heart of a third-world sovereign nation. In the 1880s, the city was named after Leopold, the Belgian king, Leopoldville. For the shovel