Nyanza District
Nyanza is a district in Southern Province, Republic of Rwanda. Its capital is Nyanza town, which is also the provincial capital. Nyanza is a Bantu word meaning lake, which probably refers to the small body of water created by a dam to the west of Nyanza town and sometimes referred to by the local residents as “Ikiyaga” or lake. which probably refers to a large lake to the west of Nyanza city.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Nyanza District
- Type: district of Rwanda with 366,000 residents
- Description: the district surrounding Nyanza, Rwanda
- Location: Southern Province, Rwanda, East Africa, Africa
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Bosnian to Zulu—“Nyanza District” goes by many names.
- Bosnian: “Distrikt Nyanza”
- Catalan: “Districte de Nyanza”
- Cebuano: “Nyanza District”
- Chinese: “Nyanza Koān”
- Chinese: “尼安扎縣”
- Dutch: “Nyanza District”
- French: “district de Nyanza”
- French: “District de Nyanza”
- French: “Nyanza (district)”
- French: “Nyanza”
- German: “Distrikt Nyanza”
- Greek: “Δήμος Νυάνζα”
- Italian: “distretto di Nyanza”
- Italian: “Distretto di Nyanza”
- Japanese: “ニャンザ郡”
- Kinyarwanda: “Akarere ka Nyanza”
- Kinyarwanda: “Nyanza”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Nyanza Koān”
- Portuguese: “Nyanza”
- Slovenian: “Distrikt Nyaza”
- Spanish: “Distrito de Nyanza (Ruanda)”
- Spanish: “Distrito de Nyanza”
- Swahili: “Wilaya ya Nyanza”
- Ukrainian: “Ньянза”
- Western Mari: “Ньанза”
- Zulu: “Nyanza District”
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