Kifuka
Kifuka is a village in South Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo. The village, located at 970 metres altitude in a mountainous region, is the nearest populated place to the site which receives the second most annual lightning strikes of any place worldwide, being struck by 158 lightning bolts per square kilometer each year.- Locality
- …lies at an elevation of around 760 metres (2,480 feet)
- Description: village in Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Category: human settlement
- Location
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Latitude
-2.76667° or 2° 46′ south
Longitude
27.73333° or 27° 44′ east
Open location code
6G996PMM+88
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