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North Kivu

North Kivu is a province bordering in the eastern . The capital city is . Spanning approximately 59,483 square kilometers with a population estimate of 8,985,711 as of 2020, it is bordered by Ituri Province to the…
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  • Type: State with 4,910,000 residents
  • Description: province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
  • Also known as: “North Kivu Province” and “Sous-Région du Nord-Kivu”
Photo: Julien Harneis, CC BY-SA 2.0.

North Kivu

Latitude
-0.5646° or 0° 33′ 52″ south
Longitude
28.7062° or 28° 42′ 22″ east
Population
4,910,000
Elevation
1,978 metres (6,490 feet)
Open location code
6GFCCPP4+5F
Open­Street­Map ID
node 4346329231
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
206938
Wiki­data ID
Q130625
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Zulu—“North Kivu” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “كيفو الشمالية”
  • Azerbaijani: “Şimali Kivu”
  • Basque: “Ipar Kivu”
  • Belarusian: “Паўночнае Ківу”
  • Belarusian: “правінцыя Паўночнае Ківу”
  • Bengali: “উত্তর কিভু”
  • Breton: “Nord-Kivu”
  • Bulgarian: “Нор Киву”
  • Bulgarian: “Северно Киву”
  • Catalan: “Kivu del Nord”
  • Catalan: “Kivu Nord”
  • Catalan: “Nord-Kivu”
  • Cebuano: “Province du Nord-Kivu”
  • Central Kurdish: “کیڤوی باکوور”
  • Chinese: “北基伍”
  • Chinese: “北基伍省”
  • Chinese: “北基武省”
  • Chinese: “基伍北省”
  • Croatian: “Sjeverni Kivu”
  • Czech: “Severní Kivu”
  • Danish: “Nord-Kivu”
  • Danish: “North Kivu”
  • Dutch: “Noord-Kivoe”
  • Dutch: “Noord-Kivu”
  • Dutch: “Nord-Kivu”
  • Esperanto: “etúká ya Kivu ya Nole”
  • Esperanto: “Kivu Kaskazini”
  • Esperanto: “Kivu ya Node”
  • Esperanto: “Kivu ya Nole”
  • Esperanto: “kizûnga Kivu ya Node”
  • Esperanto: “mkoa wa Kivu Kaskazini”
  • Esperanto: “Nord-Kivu”
  • Esperanto: “Nord-Kivuo”
  • Esperanto: “Norda Kivuo”
  • Esperanto: “provinco Norda Kivuo”
  • Esperanto: “Provinco Norda Kivuo”
  • Estonian: “Põhja-Kivu provints”
  • Estonian: “Põhja-Kivu”
  • Finnish: “Pohjois-Kivu”
  • French: “Kivu du Nord”
  • French: “Nord-Kivu”
  • Georgian: “ჩრდილოეთი კივუს პროვინცია”
  • German: “CD-NK”
  • German: “Nord-Kivu”
  • German: “Nordkivu”
  • Greek: “Βόρειο Κίβου”
  • Gujarati: “નોર્થ કિવુ”
  • Hebrew: “צפון קיוו”
  • Hebrew: “קיוו צפון”
  • Hindi: “उत्तर कीवू प्रान्त”
  • Hungarian: “Észak-Kivu tartomány”
  • Indonesian: “Nord-Kivu”
  • Indonesian: “Provinsi Nord-Kivu”
  • Italian: “Kivu Nord”
  • Italian: “Nord Kivu”
  • Italian: “Nord-Kivu”
  • Italian: “provincia del Kivu Nord”
  • Italian: “Provincia del Kivu Nord”
  • Japanese: “北キヴ州”
  • Japanese: “北キブ州”
  • Kannada: “ಉತ್ತರ ಕಿವು”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Intara ya Kivu y’Amajyaruguru”
  • Kongo: “Kivu ya Node”
  • Kongo: “Kivu ya Nordi”
  • Korean: “북키부주”
  • Latvian: “Ziemeļkivu”
  • Latvian: “Ziemeļu Kivu”
  • Lingala: “Kivu ya Nole”
  • Lingala: “Nord-Kivu”
  • Lithuanian: “Šiaurės Kivu”
  • Luba-Lulua: “Ulahi wa muulu wa Kivu”
  • Luba-Lulua: “Ulahi wa muulu”
  • Malay: “Nord-Kivu”
  • Marathi: “उत्तर किव्वा”
  • Mingrelian: “ოორუე კივუშ პროვინცია”
  • Northern Frisian: “Nord-Kivu”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Nord-Kivu”
  • Norwegian: “Nord-Kivu”
  • Persian: “کیوو شمالی”
  • Polish: “Kiwu Północne”
  • Polish: “Nord-Kivu”
  • Portuguese: “Kivu do Norte”
  • Portuguese: “Nord-Kivu”
  • Portuguese: “Quivu do Norte”
  • Romanian: “Nord-Kivu”
  • Romanian: “Provincia Nord-Kivu”
  • Russian: “Северное Киву”
  • Serbian: “Северни Киву”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Nord-Kivu”
  • Sinhala: “උතුරු කිවූ”
  • Slovak: “Nord-Kivu”
  • Slovenian: “CD-NK”
  • Slovenian: “Nord-Kivu”
  • Slovenian: “Severni Kivu”
  • Spanish: “Kivu del Norte”
  • Spanish: “Kivu Norte”
  • Spanish: “Provincia de Kivu del Norte”
  • Swahili: “Kivu Kaskazini”
  • Swahili: “Kivu ya Kaskazini”
  • Swahili: “Mkoa wa Kivu Kaskazini”
  • Swahili: “Nord-Kivu”
  • Swedish: “Nord-Kivu”
  • Swedish: “Nordkivu”
  • Swedish: “Norra Kivu”
  • Tamil: “வடக்கு கிவு”
  • Tatar: “Төньяк Киву”
  • Telugu: “ఉత్తర కివు”
  • Thai: “จังหวัดกีวูเหนือ”
  • Thai: “นอร์-กีวู”
  • Turkish: “Kuzey Kivu”
  • Ukrainian: “Північне Ківу”
  • Urdu: “شمالی کیوو”
  • Vietnamese: “Bắc Kivu”
  • Walloon: “Province do Kivou bijhrece”
  • Walloon: “Province do Kivou Bijhrece”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Nord-Kivu”
  • Wu Chinese: “北基伍省”
  • Wu Chinese: “北基伏省”
  • Zulu: “North Kivu”

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