Mount Nyiragongo
Mount Nyiragongo is an active stratovolcano with an elevation of 3,470 m in the Virunga Mountains associated with the Albertine Rift. It is located inside Virunga National Park, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, about 12 km north of the town of Goma and Lake Kivu and just west of the border with Rwanda.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Volcano with an elevation of 3,470 metres
- Description: active volcano in Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Also known as: “Mt. Nyiragongo”, “Nyaragongo”, “Nyiragongo”, “Nyragongo”, “Tshaninagongo”, “Volcan Niragongo”, and “Volcan Tshamiagongo”
- Historically known as: “Kirunga Tshanina”, “Nyviangongo”, and “Volcan Shanesia-Gongo”
Mount Nyiragongo
- Categories: stratovolcano and landform
- Location: DR Congo, Central Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-1.52145° or 1° 31′ 17″ southLongitude
29.24995° or 29° 14′ 60″ eastElevation
3,470 metres (11,385 feet)Open location code
6GCFF6HX+CXOpenStreetMap ID
node 309205211OpenStreetMap feature
natural=volcano
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Wu Chinese—“Mount Nyiragongo” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Nyiragongo”
- Arabic: “بركان نيراجونجو”
- Arabic: “جبل نيراجونجو”
- Arabic: “نيراغونغو”
- Armenian: “Նյիրագոնգո”
- Azerbaijani: “Niraqonqo”
- Basque: “Nyiragongo”
- Breton: “Nyiragongo”
- Bulgarian: “Нирагонго”
- Catalan: “Nyiragongo”
- Cebuano: “Volcan Nyiragongo”
- Chinese: “尼拉貢戈火山”
- Chinese: “尼拉贡戈火山”
- Czech: “Nyiragongo”
- Danish: “Nyiragongo”
- Dutch: “Nyiragongo”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بركان نيراجونجو”
- Esperanto: “Monto Nyiragongo”
- Esperanto: “Nyiragongo”
- Estonian: “Nyiragongo vulkaan”
- Estonian: “Nyiragongo”
- Finnish: “Nyiragongo”
- French: “Graf Gotzen Krater”
- French: “Kirunga Cha Nina Gongo”
- French: “Kirunge Cha Niragongo”
- French: “Kirunge Ya Gongo”
- French: “Kirungo Cha Gongo”
- French: “Kirungu Tscha Gongo”
- French: “Kirungu Tscha Gongwe”
- French: “Mont Nyiragongo”
- French: “Ninagongo”
- French: “Niragonwe”
- French: “Nyiragongo”
- French: “Revire Nganga”
- Georgian: “ნიირაგონგო”
- German: “Nyiragongo”
- Greek: “Νιραγκόνγκο”
- Hausa: “Dutsen Nyiragongo”
- Hebrew: “ניאראגונגו”
- Hindi: “नीरागोंगा”
- Hungarian: “Nyiragongo”
- Icelandic: “Nyiragongo”
- Indonesian: “Gunung Nyiragongo”
- Italian: “Nyiragongo”
- Japanese: “ニーラゴンゴ山”
- Japanese: “ニイラゴンゴ山”
- Japanese: “ニイラゴンゴ火山”
- Korean: “니라공고산”
- Latin: “Mons Nyragongus”
- Limburgan: “Nyiragongo”
- Lingala: “Nyiragongo”
- Lithuanian: “Niragongas”
- Macedonian: “Њирагонго”
- Malay: “Gunung Nyiragongo”
- Marathi: “माउंट न्यिरागोन्गो”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Nyiragongo”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Nyiragongo”
- Norwegian: “Nyiragongo”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Nyiragongo”
- Persian: “کوه نیراگونگو”
- Persian: “کوهٔ نیراگونگو”
- Persian: “نیراگونگو”
- Polish: “Nyiragongo”
- Portuguese: “Monte Niaragongo”
- Portuguese: “Monte Nyiragongo”
- Portuguese: “Nyiragongo”
- Romanian: “Muntele Nyiragongo”
- Romanian: “Nyiragongo”
- Russian: “Нирагонго”
- Russian: “Ньирагонго”
- Slovak: “Nyiragongo”
- Slovenian: “Nyiragongo”
- Spanish: “Monte Nyiragongo”
- Spanish: “Nyiragongo”
- Swahili: “Mlima Nyiragongo”
- Swedish: “Nyiragongo”
- Ukrainian: “Ньїрагонго”
- Vietnamese: “Núi Nyiragongo”
- Waray (Philippines): “Bukid Nyiragongo”
- Wu Chinese: “尼拉贡戈火山”
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