DR Congo
Kwilu Province
Kikwit

Kikwit

Kikwit is the largest city of , in the southwestern part of the . Located at the furthest navigable point of the , the urban area of Kikwit is primarily on its left bank.
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  • Type: City with 509,000 residents
  • Description: city in Congo-Kinshasa
  • Also known as: “Kitwit”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Kikwit Airport.

Aerodrome
Photo: BlueSalo, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is an airport serving the port of Kikwit, the capital city of the Kwilu District in the . The airport is within the city limits.

Kikwit

Latitude
-5.0383° or 5° 2′ 18″ south
Longitude
18.8178° or 18° 49′ 4″ east
Population
509,000
Elevation
466 metres (1,529 feet)
IATA airport code
KKW
United Nations Location Code
CD KKW
Open location code
6F6WXR69+M4
Open­Street­Map ID
node 4882355591
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2314705
Wiki­data ID
Q261887
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Zulu—“Kikwit” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “كيكويت”
  • Armenian: “Կիկվիտ”
  • Asturian: “Kikwit”
  • Belarusian: “Кіквіт”
  • Bengali: “কিক্বিট”
  • Bulgarian: “Киквит”
  • Catalan: “Kikwit”
  • Cebuano: “Kikwit”
  • Chinese: “基奎特”
  • Croatian: “Kikwit”
  • Czech: “Kikwit”
  • Danish: “Kikwit”
  • Dutch: “Kikwit”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كيكويت”
  • Esperanto: “Kikwit”
  • Estonian: “Kikwit”
  • Finnish: “Kikwit”
  • French: “Kikwit”
  • Georgian: “კიკვიტი”
  • German: “Kikwit”
  • Greek: “Κικγουίτ”
  • Gujarati: “કિકવિટ”
  • Hebrew: “קיקביט”
  • Hebrew: “קיקוויט”
  • Hindi: “किकविट”
  • Hungarian: “Kikwit”
  • Indonesian: “Kikwit”
  • Italian: “Kikwit”
  • Japanese: “キクウィト”
  • Kannada: “ಕಿಕ್ವಿಟ್”
  • Kongo: “Kikwit”
  • Korean: “키퀴트”
  • Latvian: “Kikvita”
  • Lingala: “Kikwit”
  • Lithuanian: “Kikvitas”
  • Malay: “Kikwit”
  • Marathi: “किकविट”
  • Mingrelian: “კიკვიტი”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kikwit”
  • Norwegian: “Kikwit”
  • Persian: “کیکویت”
  • Polish: “Kikwit”
  • Portuguese: “Kikwit”
  • Portuguese: “Quicuíte”
  • Romanian: “Kikwit”
  • Russian: “Киквит”
  • Russian: “Киквите”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kikwit”
  • Sinhala: “කික්විට්”
  • Spanish: “Kikwit”
  • Swahili: “Kikwit”
  • Swedish: “Kikwit”
  • Tagalog: “Kikwit”
  • Tamil: “கிகிவிட்”
  • Telugu: “కిక్వీట్”
  • Thai: “คิควิท”
  • Turkish: “Kikwit”
  • Ukrainian: “Кіквіт”
  • Urdu: “کیکویت”
  • Vietnamese: “Kikwit”
  • Walloon: “Kicwite”
  • Walloon: “Kikwit”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Kikwit”
  • Zulu: “Kikwit”

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Hôpital général de référence de Kikwit and Institut supérieur pédagogique (ISP/Kikwit), Ancien site.

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