Kindu

Kindu is a city in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the capital of province. It has a population of about 200,000 and is situated on the Lualaba River at an altitude of about 500 metres, and is about 400 km west of .
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  • Type: City with 170,000 residents
  • Description: city of DRC
  • Also known as: Kindu-Port-Empain” and “Port de Kindu

Kindu

Latitude
-2.9494° or 2° 56′ 58″ south
Longitude
25.9185° or 25° 55′ 6″ east
Population
170,000
Elevation
464 metres (1,522 feet)
IATA airport code
KND
United Nations Location Code
CD KND
Open location code
6G973W29+69
Open­Street­Map ID
node 435514019
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
212902
Wiki­data ID
Q270225
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Zulu—“Kindu” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: كيندو
  • Armenian: Կինդու
  • Asturian: Kindu
  • Belarusian: Кінду
  • Bengali: কিন্দু
  • Bulgarian: Кинду
  • Catalan: Kindu
  • Cebuano: Kindu
  • Chinese: 金杜
  • Croatian: Kindu
  • Czech: Kindu
  • Danish: Kindu
  • Dutch: Kindu
  • Esperanto: Kindu
  • Estonian: Kindu
  • Finnish: Kindu
  • French: Kindu
  • French: Port-Empain
  • Galician: Kindu
  • Georgian: კინდუ
  • German: Kindu
  • Greek: Κίντου
  • Gujarati: કીન્ડું
  • Hebrew: קינדו
  • Hindi: किंदु
  • Hungarian: Kindu
  • Indonesian: Kindu
  • Italian: Kindu
  • Japanese: キンドゥ
  • Javanese: Kindu
  • Kannada: ಕಿಂಧು
  • Kongo: Kindu
  • Kongo: Port-Empain
  • Korean: 킨두
  • Latvian: Kindu
  • Lingala: Kindu
  • Lingala: Port-Empain
  • Lithuanian: Kindu
  • Luba-Lulua: Kindu
  • Luba-Lulua: Port-Empain
  • Malay: Kindu
  • Marathi: किंडू
  • Mingrelian: კინდუ
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Kindu
  • Norwegian: Kindu
  • Persian: کیندو
  • Polish: Kindu Port-Empain
  • Polish: Kindu
  • Portuguese: Kindu
  • Portuguese: Quindu
  • Romanian: Kindu
  • Russian: Кинду
  • Serbian: Kindu
  • Serbian: Кинду
  • Serbo-Croatian: Kindu
  • Shona: Kindu
  • Silesian: Kindu
  • Sinhala: කින්ඩු
  • Slovak: Kindu
  • Slovenian: Kindu
  • South Azerbaijani: کیندو
  • Spanish: Kindu
  • Spanish: Port Empain
  • Spanish: Port-Empain
  • Swahili: Kindu
  • Swedish: Kindu
  • Tagalog: Kindu
  • Tamil: Kindu
  • Telugu: కిందు
  • Thai: ฉินตู
  • Turkish: Kindu
  • Ukrainian: Кінду
  • Urdu: کندو
  • Vietnamese: Kindu
  • Waray (Philippines): Kindu
  • Zulu: Kindu
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