Kilwa Island
Kilwa Island is a lake island in the Zambian part of Lake Mweru. The nearest mainland shore is in the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the east, by the town of Kilwa.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Kilwa Island
- Type: Island
- Description: island on Lake Mweru
- Categories: locality and landform
- Location: Luapula Province, Zambia, Southern Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-9.27606° or 9° 16′ 34″ southLongitude
28.44134° or 28° 26′ 29″ eastElevation
950 metres (3,117 feet)Open location code
6G2CPCFR+HGOpenStreetMap ID
way 32880512OpenStreetMap feature
place=island
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Upper Sorbian—“Kilwa Island” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Կիլվա”
- Belarusian: “Востраў Кілва”
- Belarusian: “Кілва”
- Cebuano: “Kilwa Island”
- Chinese: “基卢瓦岛”
- Chinese: “基尔瓦岛”
- Dutch: “Kilwa Island”
- Fulah: “Kilwa Island”
- Georgian: “კილვა”
- German: “Kilwa”
- Japanese: “キルワ島 (ザンビア)”
- Japanese: “キルワ島”
- Russian: “Килва”
- Rusyn: “Кілва (острӯв)”
- Rusyn: “Кілва”
- Serbian: “Kilva”
- Serbian: “Килва”
- Spanish: “Isla de Kilwa”
- Spanish: “Isla Kilwa”
- Swahili: “Kisiwa cha Kilwa”
- Upper Sorbian: “Kilwa”
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