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 , in the province in the , about 12 km north of the town of and and just 9.8 km west of the border with .
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  • Volcano rising to 3,470 metres (11,385 feet)
  • Description: active volcano in Democratic Republic of the Congo
  • Also known as
    “Mt. Nyiragongo”
    “Nyaragongo”
    “Nyiragongo”
    “Nyragongo”
    “Tshaninagongo”
    “Volcan Niragongo”
    “Volcan Tshamiagongo”
  • Historically known as
    “Kirunga Tshanina”
    “Nyviangongo”
    “Volcan Shanesia-Gongo”

Mount Nyiragongo

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Latitude
-1.52145° or 1° 31′ 17″ south
Longitude
29.24995° or 29° 14′ 60″ east
Open location code
6GCFF6HX+CX
Open­Street­Map ID
node 309205211
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­volcano
Geo­Names ID
206850
Wiki­data ID
Q214696

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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”
  • Asturian: “Monte Nyiragongo”
  • 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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