Kongolo
Kongolo is a town in Tanganyika Province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Kongolo has long been a crossroads of inter-ethnic politics, and due to its location on the Lualaba River, the largest headstream of the Congo River, riverine trade has been prominent.
- Type: City with 86,900 residents
- Description: city
- Also known as: “Kangolo” and “Kongolo, Tanganyika”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Kongolo Airport.
Kongolo Airport
Aerodrome
Kongolo Airport is an airport serving the Lualaba River city of Kongolo, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Kongolo
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Kongolo Ville, Tanganyika, DR Congo, Central Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-5.3856° or 5° 23′ 8″ south
Longitude
26.9992° or 26° 59′ 57″ east
Population
86,900
Elevation
562 metres (1,844 feet)
IATA airport code
KOO
United Nations Location Code
CD KOO
Open location code
6G68JX7X+PM
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Zulu—“Kongolo” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كونغولو”
- Bengali: “কঙ্গোলো”
- Cebuano: “Kongolo”
- Chinese: “孔戈洛”
- Danish: “Kongolo”
- Dutch: “Kongolo”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كونجولو”
- Finnish: “Kongolo”
- French: “Kongolo”
- German: “Kongolo”
- Greek: “Κόνγκολο”
- Gujarati: “કોંગોલો”
- Hindi: “कांगोलो”
- Indonesian: “Kongolo”
- Italian: “Kongolo”
- Japanese: “コンゴロ”
- Kannada: “ಕೊಂಗೊಲೊ”
- Korean: “콩골로”
- Latvian: “Kongolo”
- Lithuanian: “Kongolas”
- Malay: “Kongolo”
- Marathi: “कोंगोलो”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kongolo”
- Polish: “Kongolo”
- Portuguese: “Kongolo”
- Russian: “Конголо”
- Sinhala: “කොන්ගොලෝ”
- Spanish: “Kongolo”
- Swedish: “Kongolo”
- Tagalog: “Kongolo, Lalawigan ng Tanganyika”
- Tamil: “கொங்கொலோ”
- Telugu: “కాంగోలో”
- Thai: “คองโกลา”
- Turkish: “Kongolo”
- Ukrainian: “Конголо”
- Urdu: “کونجولو”
- Vietnamese: “Kongolo”
- Zulu: “Kongolo, Tanganyika”
- Zulu: “Kongolo”
- “Kongolo”
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