Rukwa

Rukwa Region is one of 's 31 administrative regions The region covers a land area of 27,765 km2, which is comparable in size to the combined land area of the nation state of .
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Latitude
-8° or 8° south
Longitude
31.4167° or 31° 25′ east
Open location code
6G4H2C28+2M
Geo­Names ID
150442
Wiki­data ID
Q153329

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In Other Languages

From Amharic to Zulu—“Rukwa” goes by many names.
  • Amharic: “ሩክዋ”
  • Arabic: “إقليم روكوا”
  • Asturian: “Rexón de Rukwa”
  • Asturian: “Rukwa”
  • Azerbaijani: “Rukwa”
  • Basque: “Rukwa (eskualdea)”
  • Basque: “Rukwa”
  • Bengali: “রুকওয়া অঞ্চল”
  • Bulgarian: “Руква”
  • Catalan: “Rukwa”
  • Cebuano: “Rukwa Region”
  • Central Bikol: “Rehiyon Rukwa”
  • Chinese: “魯夸區”
  • Chinese: “鲁夸区”
  • Croatian: “Rukwa”
  • Danish: “Rukwa”
  • Dutch: “Rukwa”
  • Esperanto: “Regiono Rukvo”
  • Esperanto: “Regiono Rukwa”
  • Estonian: “Rukwa piirkond”
  • Finnish: “Rukwan alue”
  • French: “Rukwa”
  • Galician: “Rukwa”
  • Georgian: “რუკვის ოლქი”
  • German: “Rukwa”
  • German: “TZ-20”
  • Greek: “Περιφέρεια Ρούκουα”
  • Gujarati: “રુકવા પ્રદેશ”
  • Hausa: “Rukwa”
  • Hausa: “Yankin Rukwa”
  • Hebrew: “רוקווה”
  • Hindi: “रुक्वा क्षेत्र”
  • Indonesian: “Region Rukwa”
  • Indonesian: “Wilayah Rukwa”
  • Italian: “Regione di Rukwa”
  • Japanese: “ルクワ州”
  • Javanese: “Rukwa”
  • Kannada: “ರುಕ್ವಾ ಪ್ರದೇಶ”
  • Kazakh: “Rukwa”
  • Kirghiz: “Rukwa”
  • Korean: “루콰주”
  • Kotava: “TanzaniaRukwaGola”
  • Latvian: “Rukvas reģions”
  • Lithuanian: “Rukvos regionas”
  • Malay: “Rukwa Region”
  • Marathi: “रुक्वा प्रदेश”
  • Northern Frisian: “Rukwa (Regiuun)”
  • Northern Frisian: “Rukwa”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Rukwa”
  • Norwegian: “Rukwa”
  • Oromo: “Rukwa”
  • Panjabi: “ਰੁਕਵਾ”
  • Persian: “استان روکاوا”
  • Polish: “Rukwa”
  • Portuguese: “Rukwa”
  • Pushto: “روکوا”
  • Romanian: “Regiunea Rukwa”
  • Russian: “Руква”
  • Serbian: “Rukva”
  • Serbian: “Руква”
  • Sinhala: “රුක්වා කලාපය”
  • Somali: “Rukwa”
  • Spanish: “Región de Rukwa”
  • Spanish: “Rukwa”
  • Swahili: “Mkoa wa Rukwa”
  • Swedish: “Rukwa”
  • Tajik: “Vilojati Rukua”
  • Tajik: “Вилояти Рукуа”
  • Tamil: “ருக்கவா பகுதி”
  • Tatar: “Rukwa”
  • Tatar: “Руква өлкәсе”
  • Telugu: “రుక్వా ప్రాంతం”
  • Thai: “รุกวา”
  • Turkish: “Rukwa Bölgesi”
  • Ukrainian: “Регіон Руква”
  • Ukrainian: “Руква”
  • Urdu: “رکوا ریجن”
  • Urdu: “روکوا علاقہ”
  • Uzbek: “Rukwa”
  • Vietnamese: “Rukwa”
  • Western Panjabi: “رکوا”
  • Wu Chinese: “魯夸區”
  • Yoruba: “Agbègbè Rukwa”
  • Yoruba: “Rukwa Region”
  • Yue Chinese: “魯夸區”
  • Zulu: “Rukwa Region”

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