Lake Kivu

Lake Kivu is one of the African Great Lakes. It lies on the border between the and , and is in the Albertine Rift, the western branch of the East African Rift.
Wikipedia
  • Type: Lake
  • Description: meromictic lake in the East African Rift valley
  • Also known as: “Jezioro Kiwu”, “Kivoemeer”, “Kivu aintzira”, “Kivu Lac”, “Kivu lakua”, “Kivu Meer”, “Kivu-järvi”, “Kivu-meer”, “Kivu-See”, “Kivusee”, “Kiwu-See”, “lake Kivu”, “liziba kivu”, “Nzo ya kivu”, “კივუ”, “درياچه كيوو”, “درياچهٔ كيوو”, “دریاچهٔ کیوو”, “کیوو جھیل”, “キヴー湖”, “キヴ湖”, and “キブー湖”

Lake Kivu

Latitude
-2° or 2° south
Longitude
29.16667° or 29° 10′ east
Elevation
1,461 metres (4,793 feet)
Open location code
6GCF2528+2M
Geo­Names ID
212508
Wiki­data ID
Q125912
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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”
  • 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: “Kivu”
  • Danish: “Kivusøen”
  • Dutch: “Kivumeer”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بحيرة كيفو”
  • Esperanto: “Kivuo”
  • Estonian: “Kivu järv”
  • Finnish: “Kivujärvi”
  • French: “lac Kivu”
  • French: “Lac Kivu”
  • Galician: “Lago Kivu”
  • Georgian: “კივუს ტბა”
  • German: “Kiwusee”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Lake Kivu”
  • Greek: “Λίμνη Κίβου”
  • Hausa: “Tafkin kivu”
  • Hausa: “Tafkin Kivu”
  • Hebrew: “אגם קיוו”
  • Hindi: “कीवू झील”
  • Hungarian: “Kivu-tó”
  • Indonesian: “Danau Kivu”
  • Italian: “lago Kivu”
  • Italian: “Lago Kivu”
  • Japanese: “キブ湖”
  • Kazakh: “Киву”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Ikiyaga cya Kivu”
  • Kongo: “nzo ya kivu”
  • Korean: “키부호”
  • Latvian: “Kivu ezers”
  • Lingala: “Kivu”
  • Lingala: “Liziba Kivu”
  • Lithuanian: “Kivu ežeras”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Kiwuski jazor”
  • Luxembourgish: “Kiwuséi”
  • Macedonian: “Киву”
  • 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: “دریاچه کیوو”
  • 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: “Ziwa Kivu”
  • Swedish: “Kivusjön”
  • Thai: “ทะเลสาบกีวู”
  • Thai: “ทะเลสาบคีวู”
  • Turkish: “Kivu Gölü”
  • Ukrainian: “Ківу”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Kiwuski jězor”
  • Urdu: “جھیل کیوو”
  • Uzbek: “Kivu”
  • Venetian: “Lago Kivu”
  • Vietnamese: “Hồ 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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