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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- 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: “Sankuru (rivière)”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Lusambo.
Lusambo
Town
Lusambo is the capital city of Sankuru province, Democratic Republic of the Congo. The town lies north of the confluence of the Sankuru River and the Lubi River.
Sankuru
- Location: DR Congo, Central Africa, Africa
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Zulu—“Sankuru” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ولاية سنكورة”
- Belarusian: “Правінцыя Санкуру”
- Belarusian: “Санкуру”
- Bulgarian: “Санкуру”
- Cebuano: “Sankuru”
- Chinese: “桑库鲁省”
- Chinese: “桑庫魯省”
- Danish: “Sankuru (provins)”
- Danish: “Sankuru”
- Dutch: “Sankuru”
- Esperanto: “etúká ya Sankuru”
- Esperanto: “kizûnga Sankuru”
- Esperanto: “mkoa wa Sankuru”
- Esperanto: “provinco Sankuro”
- Esperanto: “Provinco Sankuro”
- Esperanto: “Sankuro”
- Esperanto: “Sankuru”
- Finnish: “Sankuru”
- French: “Province de la Sankuru”
- French: “Province du Sankuru”
- French: “Sankuru”
- Georgian: “სანკურუს პროვინცია”
- German: “Sankuru”
- Hungarian: “Sankuru tartomány”
- Indonesian: “Provinsi Sankuru”
- Italian: “Provincia di Sankuru”
- Japanese: “サンクル州”
- Kongo: “Kizûnga Sankuru”
- Korean: “상쿠루주”
- Lingala: “Etuka ya Sankuru”
- Lithuanian: “Sankuru (provincija)”
- Lithuanian: “Sankuru”
- Mingrelian: “სანკურუშ პროვინცია”
- Northern Frisian: “Sankuru”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sankuru”
- Norwegian: “Sankuru”
- Persian: “سانکورو”
- Polish: “Sankuru”
- Portuguese: “Sancuru”
- Portuguese: “Sankuru”
- Romanian: “Sankuru”
- Russian: “Санкуру”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Sankuru”
- Slovenian: “Sankuru”
- Spanish: “Provincia de Sankuru”
- Spanish: “Sankuru”
- Swahili: “Mkoa wa Sankuru”
- Swahili: “Sankuru”
- Swedish: “Sankuru”
- Ukrainian: “Санкуру”
- Walloon: “Province do Sankourou”
- Walloon: “Province do Sankuru”
- Waray (Philippines): “Sankuru”
- Yue Chinese: “桑庫魯省”
- Zulu: “Sankuru”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Lusambo Airport.
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