Africa
East Africa
Rwanda

Mount Karisimbi

Mount Karisimbi is a stratovolcano in the Virunga Mountains on the border between and the . At 4,507 metres, Karisimbi is the highest of the eight major mountains of the mountain range, which is a part of Albertine Rift, the western branch of the East African Rift.
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  • Type: Volcano with an elevation of 4,507 metres
  • Description: volcano on the Rwanda–Democratic Republic of the Congo border
  • Also known as: “Mont Karisimbi” and “Mount Karisimbra”

Mount Karisimbi

Latitude
-1.50615° or 1° 30′ 22″ south
Longitude
29.45036° or 29° 27′ 1″ east
Elevation
4,507 metres (14,787 feet)
Open location code
6GCFFFV2+G4
Open­Street­Map ID
node 309204570
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­volcano
Geo­Names ID
49526
Wiki­data ID
Q737859
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Venetian—“Mount Karisimbi” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “جبل كاريسيمبي”
  • Azerbaijani: “Karisimbi”
  • Basque: “Karisimbi mendia”
  • Belarusian: “Гара Карысімбі”
  • Belarusian: “Карысімбі”
  • Bulgarian: “Карисимби”
  • Catalan: “Karisimbi”
  • Cebuano: “Volcan Karisimbi”
  • Chinese: “卡里辛比山”
  • Chinese: “卡里辛比火山”
  • Czech: “Karisimbi”
  • Czech: “Nejvyšší hora Rwandy”
  • Dutch: “Mount Karisimbi”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جبل مونت كاريسيمبى”
  • Estonian: “Karisimbi mägi”
  • Estonian: “Karisimbi vulkaan”
  • Estonian: “Karisimbi”
  • Finnish: “Karisimbi”
  • French: “Mont Karasimbi”
  • French: “mont Karisimbi”
  • French: “Mont Karisimbi”
  • Galician: “Monte Karisimbi”
  • Georgian: “კარისიმბი”
  • German: “Karisimbi”
  • Hebrew: “הר קאריסימבי”
  • Hungarian: “Karisimbi”
  • Indonesian: “Gunung Karisimbi”
  • Irish: “Sliabh Karisimbi”
  • Italian: “Karisimbi”
  • Japanese: “カリシンビ山”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Ikirunga cya Karisimbi”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Umusozi wa Karisimbi”
  • Korean: “카리심비산”
  • Ladin: “Mount Karisimbi”
  • Lithuanian: “Karisimbi”
  • Lithuanian: “Karisimbis”
  • Macedonian: “Карисимби”
  • Malayalam: “കരിസിമ്പി പർവ്വതം”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “جبل كاريسيمبي”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Karisimbi”
  • Norwegian: “Karisimbi”
  • Persian: “کاریزیمبی”
  • Polish: “Karisimbi”
  • Portuguese: “Karisimbi”
  • Portuguese: “Monte Karisimbi”
  • Russian: “Карисимби”
  • Slovak: “Karisimbi”
  • Slovenian: “Karisimbi”
  • Spanish: “Monte Karisimbi”
  • Swahili: “Mlima Karisimbi”
  • Swedish: “Karisimbi”
  • Turkish: “Karisimbi Dağı”
  • Ukrainian: “Карісімбі”
  • Uzbek: “Karisimbi togʻi”
  • Venetian: “Karisimbi”
  • “Karisimbi”

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