Masina, Kinshasa

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| name = Masina

| official_name = Commune de Masina

| nickname = Chine Populaire

| type = Commune

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| map_caption = Masina on map of Kinshasa city-province

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| title = Masina, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo

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| accessdate = 20 August 2011

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| subdivision_name1 = Kinshasa

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| area_total_km2 = 69.7

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| population_as_of = 2004 est.

| population_total = 485167

| population_density_km2 = auto

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Masina is a municipality (commune) in the Tshangu District of Kinshasa, the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.{{cite web | url = http://www.kinshasa.cd/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=300 | title = Géographie de Kinshasa (Geography of Kinshasa) | publisher = Ville de Kinshasa (City of Kinshasa) | language = French | accessdate = 20 August 2011 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120723091147/http://www.kinshasa.cd/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=300 | archive-date = 2012-07-23 | url-status = dead }}

It is bordered by the Pool Malebo in the north and Boulevard Lumbumba to the south.

Masina shelters within it the Marché de la Liberté "M’Zee Laurent-Désiré Kabila”, one of the largest markets of Kinshasa, which was built under the presidency of Laurent-Désiré Kabila to repay the inhabitants of the district of Tshangu who had resisted the rebels in August 1998.Paul Kabeya Kapo, Jennifer Makengo, [http://www.afriquechos.ch/article.php3?id_article=447 Kinshasa : le marché de la Liberté, un bijou qui n’attire pas] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928104912/http://www.afriquechos.ch/article.php3?id_article=447 |date=2007-09-28 }}, Afriqu'Échos Magazine, 24 septembre 2004.

The area is known by the nickname "Chine Populaire" ("People's China").