Rubavu District
Rubavu District is one of the seven districts in Western Province, Rwanda, with a total surface area of 388.4 km2. Its administrative capital is Gisenyi, a vibrant lakeside resort town and border city on Lake Kivu, directly across from Goma in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Gisenyi.
Gisenyi
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Gisenyi, historically rendered as Kisenyi, is the second largest city in Rwanda, located in the Rubavu district in Rwanda's Western Province. Gisenyi is contiguous with Goma as it was formerly also part of now Democratic Republic of the Congo, the city across the border in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Rubavu District
- Type: district of Rwanda with 547,000 residents
- Description: district in Rwanda
- Location: Western Province, Rwanda, East Africa, Africa
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Azerbaijani to Zulu—“Rubavu District” goes by many names.
- Azerbaijani: “Rubavu”
- Catalan: “Districte de Rubavu”
- Cebuano: “Rubavu District”
- Chinese: “Rubavu Koān”
- Chinese: “魯巴武縣”
- Dutch: “Rubavu District”
- French: “district de Rubavu”
- French: “District de Rubavu”
- French: “Rubavu (district)”
- French: “Rubavu”
- German: “Distrikt Rubavu”
- Greek: “Δήμος Ρουμπάβου”
- Italian: “distretto di Rubavu”
- Italian: “Distretto di Rubavu”
- Japanese: “ルバブ郡”
- Kinyarwanda: “Akarere ka Rubavu”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Rubavu Koān”
- Polish: “Dystrykt Rubavu”
- Portuguese: “Rubavu”
- Russian: “Рубаву (район)”
- Russian: “Рубаву”
- Spanish: “Rubavu”
- Swahili: “Wilaya ya Rubavu”
- Ukrainian: “Рубаву”
- Western Mari: “Рубаву”
- Zulu: “Rubavu District”
Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
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