No one knows how many people live in Lubumbashi—or in any other Congolese city, for that matter—because the last census conducted by the government was in 1984. Local estimates put Lubumbashi’s population at more than two million, making it the second-largest city in the country behind Kinshasa. The main arterial road of Lubumbashi is called 30 June 1960 Street, the day of Congolese independence.
