Sankuru
Sankuru is one of the 21 provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo created in the 2015 repartitioning. Sankuru, Kasaï-Oriental, and Lomami provinces are the result of the dismemberment of the former Kasaï-Oriental province.- Type: province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo with 1,370,000 residents
- Description: province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Also known as: “etúká ya Sankuru”, “Jimbo la Sankuru”, “kizûnga Sankuru”, “mkoa wa Sankuru”, “Province do Sankuru”, “Province du Sankuru”, “Sankuro”, and “Sankuru province”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Lusambo.
Lusambo
Town
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.Sankuru
- Location: DR Congo, Central Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-4.9667° or 4° 58′ south
Longitude
23.45° or 23° 27′ east
Population
1,370,000
Elevation
461 metres (1,512 feet)
Open location code
6G752CMX+8X
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Zulu—“Sankuru” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ሳንኩሩ”
- Arabic: “ولاية سنكورة”
- Azerbaijani: “Sankuru”
- Belarusian: “Правінцыя Санкуру”
- Belarusian: “Санкуру”
- Bengali: “সাঙ্কুরু”
- Bulgarian: “Санкуру”
- Cebuano: “Sankuru”
- Chinese: “桑库鲁省”
- Chinese: “桑庫魯省”
- Croatian: “Sankuru”
- Danish: “Sankuru (provins)”
- Danish: “Sankuru”
- Dutch: “Sankuru”
- Esperanto: “provinco Sankuro”
- Esperanto: “Provinco Sankuro”
- Finnish: “Sankuru”
- French: “Sankuru”
- Georgian: “სანკურუს პროვინცია”
- German: “Sankuru”
- Hausa: “Sankuru”
- Hungarian: “Sankuru tartomány”
- Indonesian: “Provinsi Sankuru”
- Italian: “Provincia di Sankuru”
- Japanese: “サンクル州”
- Javanese: “Sankuru”
- Kazakh: “Санкуру”
- Kirghiz: “Санкуру”
- Kongo: “Kizûnga Sankuru”
- Korean: “상쿠루주”
- Latvian: “Sankuru (province)”
- Latvian: “Sankuru”
- Lingala: “Etuka ya Sankuru”
- Lithuanian: “Sankuru (provincija)”
- Lithuanian: “Sankuru”
- Malay: “Sankuru”
- Mingrelian: “სანკურუშ პროვინცია”
- Northern Frisian: “Sankuru”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sankuru”
- Norwegian: “Sankuru”
- Oromo: “Sankuru”
- Panjabi: “ਸਾਂਕੁਰੁ”
- Persian: “سانکورو”
- Polish: “Sankuru”
- Portuguese: “Sancuru”
- Portuguese: “Sankuru”
- Pushto: “سانکورو”
- Romanian: “Sankuru”
- Russian: “Санкуру”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Sankuru”
- Slovenian: “Sankuru”
- Somali: “Sankuru”
- Spanish: “Provincia de Sankuru”
- Spanish: “Sankuru”
- Swahili: “Mkoa wa Sankuru”
- Swahili: “Sankuru”
- Swedish: “Sankuru”
- Tajik: “Санкуру”
- Tatar: “Санкуру”
- Ukrainian: “Санкуру”
- Uzbek: “Sankuru”
- Vietnamese: “Sankuru”
- Walloon: “Province do Sankourou”
- Waray (Philippines): “Sankuru”
- Yue Chinese: “桑庫魯省”
- Zulu: “Sankuru”
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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Sapolumpungu and Tshileta.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights: Lusambo Airport.
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