Lake Kivu
Lake Kivu is one of the African Great Lakes. It lies on the border between the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda, and is in the Albertine Rift, the western branch of the East African Rift.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Lake
- Description: meromictic lake in the East African Rift valley
- Also known as: “Lac Kivu”
Lake Kivu
- Categories: meromictic lake and body of water
- Location: DR Congo, Central Africa, Africa
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Satellite Map
Discover Lake Kivu from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Lake Kivu” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Kivumeer”
- Arabic: “بحيرة كيفو”
- Armenian: “Կիվու (լիճ)”
- Armenian: “Կիվու”
- Asturian: “Llagu Kivu”
- Azerbaijani: “Kivu”
- Basque: “Kivu aintzira”
- Basque: “Kivu lakua”
- Basque: “Kivu”
- Belarusian: “Возера Ківу”
- Belarusian: “Ківу”
- Bengali: “কিভু হ্রদ”
- Bhojpuri: “किवू झील”
- Breton: “Lenn Kivu”
- Bulgarian: “Киву”
- Burmese: “ကိဗုကန်”
- Catalan: “llac Kivu”
- Catalan: “Llac Kivu”
- Cebuano: “Lac Kivu”
- Central Bikol: “Danaw Kivu”
- Chinese: “基伍湖”
- Chinese: “基伏湖”
- Chuvash: “Киву”
- Croatian: “Kivu”
- Czech: “Jezero Kivu”
- Czech: “Kivu”
- Danish: “Kivusøen”
- Danish: “Lake Kivu”
- Dutch: “Kivoemeer”
- Dutch: “Kivu Meer”
- Dutch: “Kivu-meer”
- Dutch: “Kivumeer”
- Dutch: “Lake Kivu”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بحيرة كيفو”
- Esperanto: “Kivu”
- Esperanto: “Kivuo”
- Estonian: “Kivu järv”
- Finnish: “Kivu-järvi”
- Finnish: “Kivujärvi”
- French: “lac Kivu”
- French: “Lac Kivu”
- Galician: “Lago Kivu”
- Georgian: “კივუ”
- Georgian: “კივუს ტბა”
- German: “Kivu-See”
- German: “Kivusee”
- German: “Kiwu-See”
- German: “Kiwusee”
- German: “Lac Kivu”
- Greek: “Λίμνη Κίβου”
- Hausa: “Tafkin kivu”
- Hebrew: “אגם קיוו”
- Hindi: “कीवू झील”
- Hungarian: “Kivu-tó”
- Indonesian: “Danau Kivu”
- Indonesian: “Kivu”
- Italian: “lago Kivu”
- Italian: “Lago Kivu”
- Japanese: “キヴー湖”
- Japanese: “キヴ湖”
- Japanese: “キブー湖”
- Japanese: “キブ湖”
- Kazakh: “Киву”
- Kinyarwanda: “Ikiyaga cya Kivu”
- Kongo: “nzo ya kivu”
- Kongo: “Nzo ya kivu”
- Korean: “키부호”
- Latvian: “Kivu ezers”
- Latvian: “Lake Kivu”
- Lingala: “Kivu”
- Lingala: “liziba kivu”
- Lingala: “Liziba Kivu”
- Lithuanian: “Kivu ežeras”
- Lithuanian: “Kivu”
- Lower Sorbian: “Kiwuski jazor”
- Luba-Lulua: “lake Kivu”
- Luxembourgish: “Kiwuséi”
- Macedonian: “Киву”
- Malayalam: “Lake Kivu”
- Malayalam: “കിവു തടാകം”
- Mazanderani: “کیوو دریاچه”
- Minangkabau: “Danau Kivu”
- Mingrelian: “კივუშ ტობა”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kivusjøen”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kivusjøen”
- Norwegian: “Kivusjøen”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Lac Kivu”
- Panjabi: “ਕੀਵੂ ਝੀਲ”
- Persian: “درياچه كيوو”
- Persian: “درياچهٔ كيوو”
- Persian: “دریاچه کیوو”
- Persian: “دریاچهٔ کیوو”
- Polish: “Jezioro Kiwu”
- Polish: “Kivu”
- Polish: “Kiwu”
- Portuguese: “Lago Kivu”
- Portuguese: “Lago Quivu”
- Romanian: “Lacul Kivu”
- Russian: “Киву”
- Serbian: “Jezero Kivu”
- Serbian: “Језеро Киву”
- Serbian: “Киву”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Kivu (jezero)”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Kivu”
- Slovak: “Kivu”
- Slovenian: “jezero Kivu”
- Slovenian: “Kivu”
- Spanish: “Lago Kivu”
- Swahili: “Lac Kivu”
- Swahili: “Ziwa Kivu”
- Swedish: “Kivusjön”
- Swedish: “Lac Kivu”
- Swedish: “Lake Kivu”
- Thai: “Lake Kivu”
- Thai: “ทะเลสาบกีวู”
- Thai: “ทะเลสาบคีวู”
- Turkish: “Kivu Gölü”
- Ukrainian: “Ківу”
- Upper Sorbian: “Kiwuski jězor”
- Urdu: “جھیل کیوو”
- Urdu: “کیوو جھیل”
- Uzbek: “Kivu”
- Venetian: “Lago Kivu”
- Vietnamese: “Hồ Kivu”
- Vietnamese: “Kivu”
- Waray (Philippines): “Danaw Kivu”
- Welsh: “Llyn Kivu”
- Western Panjabi: “جھیل کیوو”
- Wu Chinese: “基呒湖”
- Yue Chinese: “基伏湖”
- “किवू झील”
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