Gikongoro
Gikongoro is a city in Nyamagabe district, Southern Province, Rwanda. It was previously part of Gikongoro Province, which has been disestablished. Gikongoro province was founded by the newly independent Rwandan state shortly after it gained freedom from Belgium in 1962.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Diego Tirira, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Murambi Genocide Memorial Centre.
Murambi Genocide Memorial Centre
Memorial
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The Murambi Technical School, now known as the Murambi Genocide Memorial Centre, is situated near the town of Murambi in southern Rwanda.
Gikongoro
- Type: Locality with 21,000 residents
- Description: city in Rwanda
- Category: city
- Location: Nyamugari, Gasaka, Nyamagabe District, Southern Province, Rwanda, East Africa, Africa
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Zulu—“Gikongoro” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Gikongoro”
- Basque: “Gikongoro”
- Catalan: “Gikongoro”
- Cebuano: “Gikongoro”
- Chinese: “吉孔戈罗”
- Chinese: “吉孔戈羅”
- Croatian: “Gikongoro”
- Dutch: “Gikongoro”
- French: “Gikongoro”
- German: “Gikongoro”
- Greek: “Γκικονγκόρο”
- Japanese: “ギコンゴロ”
- Korean: “기콩고로”
- Polish: “Gikongoro”
- Portuguese: “Gikongoro”
- Portuguese: “Guicongoro”
- Russian: “Гиконгоро”
- Swahili: “Gikongoro”
- Western Mari: “Гиконгоро”
- Zulu: “Gikongoro”
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Notable Places Nearby
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