Kwango River

The Cuango or Kwango is a transboundary river of and Democratic Republic of Congo. It is the largest left bank tributary of the in the Congo River basin.
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  • Type: Stream
  • Description: river
  • Also known as: Lucuali

Kwango River

Latitude
-3.23333° or 3° 14′ south
Longitude
17.36667° or 17° 22′ east
Elevation
292 metres (958 feet)
Open location code
6F8VQ988+MM
Geo­Names ID
2241664
Wiki­data ID
Q732790
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Asturian to Western Panjabi—“Kwango River” goes by many names.
  • Asturian: Ríu Kwango
  • Belarusian: Кванга
  • Belarusian: рака Кванга
  • Bulgarian: Кванго
  • Catalan: Cuango, riu a l’Àfrica equatorial
  • Catalan: Kwango
  • Catalan: Riu Cuango
  • Cebuano: Kwango
  • Chinese: 宽果河
  • Chinese: 寬果河
  • Chuvash: Кванго
  • Czech: Cuango
  • Czech: Kwango
  • Danish: Kwango (flod)
  • Danish: Kwango
  • Dutch: Kwango
  • Egyptian Arabic: نهر كوانجو
  • Estonian: Cuango
  • Estonian: Kwango jõgi
  • Estonian: Kwango
  • French: Kwango
  • Georgian: კვანგო
  • German: Cuango
  • German: Kwango
  • German: Nzadi
  • German: Zesere
  • Greek: Ποταμός Κουάνγκο
  • Hindi: क्वांगो नदी
  • Hungarian: Kwango
  • Indonesian: Sungai Kwango
  • Irish: Abhainn Kwango
  • Italian: Kwango
  • Japanese: クァンゴ川
  • Japanese: クアンゴ川
  • Japanese: クワンゴ川
  • Kinyarwanda: Umugezi wa Kwango
  • Kotava: Kwango (kuksa)
  • Kotava: Kwango
  • Latvian: Kvango
  • Lithuanian: Kvangas
  • Malayalam: ക്വാങ്കോ നദി
  • Mingrelian: კვანგო
  • Northern Frisian: Cuango Struum
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Cuango
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Kwango
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: Kwango
  • Norwegian: Kwango
  • Polish: Cuango
  • Polish: Kuango
  • Portuguese: Rio Cuango
  • Portuguese: Rio Kwango
  • Russian: Кванго
  • Russian: Куангу
  • Serbo-Croatian: Kwango (rijeka)
  • Serbo-Croatian: Kwango
  • Slovak: Kwango
  • Spanish: Cuango
  • Spanish: Rio Cuango
  • Spanish: Río Cuango
  • Spanish: Rio Kwango
  • Spanish: Río Kwango
  • Swahili: Kwango
  • Swedish: Kwango
  • Ukrainian: Кванго
  • Venetian: Fiume Kwango
  • Vietnamese: Sông Kwango
  • Welsh: Afon Kwango
  • Western Frisian: Kwango
  • Western Panjabi: کوانگو دریا

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About Mapcarta. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Kwango River”. Photo: Brian Harrington Spier, CC BY-SA 2.0.