Nyamuragira
Nyamuragira, also known as Nyamulagira, is an active shield volcano in the Virunga Mountains of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, situated about 25 kilometres north of Lake Kivu.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: MONUSCO Photos, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Volcano with an elevation of 3,055 metres
- Description: shield volcano in Africa
- Also known as: “Mount Namlagira”, “Mount Nyamuragira”, “Muramba”, “Murara”, “The Commander”, “Volcan Nyamlagira”, and “Volcan Nyamuragira”
Nyamuragira
- Categories: shield volcano and landform
- Location: North Kivu, DR Congo, Central Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-1.41227° or 1° 24′ 44″ southLongitude
29.20302° or 29° 12′ 11″ eastElevation
3,055 metres (10,023 feet)Open location code
6GCFH6Q3+36OpenStreetMap ID
node 435509578OpenStreetMap feature
natural=volcano
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Satellite Map
Discover Nyamuragira from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Basque to Ukrainian—“Nyamuragira” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Nyamuragira”
- Bulgarian: “Нямурагира”
- Catalan: “Nyamuragira”
- Cebuano: “Volcan Nyamulagira”
- Chinese: “尼亚穆拉吉拉火山”
- Chinese: “尼亞穆拉吉拉火山”
- Croatian: “Nyamuragira”
- Czech: “Nyamuragira”
- Danish: “Nyamuragira”
- Dutch: “Nyamuragira”
- Esperanto: “Nyamuragira”
- Estonian: “Namlagira”
- Estonian: “Njamlagira”
- Estonian: “Nyamlagira”
- Estonian: “Nyamulagira”
- Estonian: “Nyamuragira”
- Finnish: “Nyamuragira”
- French: “Girungo-Namlagira”
- French: “Mont Nyamulagira”
- French: “Mont Nyamuragira”
- French: “Namlagira”
- French: “Nyamlagira”
- French: “Nyamulagira”
- French: “Nyamuragira”
- Georgian: “ნიამლაგირა”
- German: “Girungo-Namlagira”
- German: “Namlagira”
- German: “Nyamlagira”
- German: “Nyamulagira”
- German: “Nyamuragira”
- Greek: “Νιαμουραγκίρα”
- Hausa: “Nyamuragira”
- Hebrew: “ניאמורגירה”
- Hungarian: “Nyamuragira”
- Indonesian: “Gunung Nyamuragira”
- Indonesian: “Nyamuragira”
- Italian: “Nyamuragira”
- Japanese: “ニアムラギラ山”
- Kinyarwanda: “Ikirunga cya Nyamuragira”
- Korean: “니아물라기라산”
- Korean: “니아믈라지라 산”
- Lithuanian: “Niamuragira”
- Lithuanian: “Njamuragira”
- Macedonian: “Њамурагира”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Nyamuragira”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Nyamuragira”
- Norwegian: “Nyamuragira”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Nyamuragira”
- Persian: “نیاموراگیرا”
- Polish: “Nyamuragira”
- Portuguese: “Monte Niamuragira”
- Portuguese: “Monte Nyamuragira”
- Portuguese: “Nyamuragira”
- Romanian: “Nyamuragira”
- Russian: “Ньямлагира”
- Shona: “Nyamuragira”
- Slovak: “Nyamuragira”
- Slovenian: “Nyamuragira”
- Spanish: “Monte Nyamuragira”
- Spanish: “Nyamuragira”
- Swahili: “Nyamulagira”
- Swahili: “Nyamuragira”
- Swedish: “Nyamuragira”
- Swedish: “Volcan Nyamulagira”
- Tamil: “நியாமுராகிரா மலை”
- Ukrainian: “Ньямлагіра”
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