Bukavu
Bukavu is in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is on the border with Rwanda. This area has suffered from some of the ongoing political unrest.
- Type: City with 707,000 residents
- Description: provincial capital and city in South Kivu, DR Congo
- Also known as: “BK”, “Bukavu Territory”, “Costermansstad”, “Costermansville”, “Kostermanvilis”, “Kuvumu”, “Ville de Bukavu”, and “Костермансвіль”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Our Lady of Peace Cathedral, Bukavu and Stade de la Concorde.
Stade de la Concorde
Stadium
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Cyangugu.
Bukavu
- Categories: border city, official city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and locality
- Location: South Kivu, Kivu, DR Congo, Central Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-2.5056° or 2° 30′ 20″ south
Longitude
28.8595° or 28° 51′ 34″ east
Population
707,000
Elevation
1,525 metres (5,003 feet)
Open location code
6G9CFVV5+QQ
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Bukavu” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Bukavu”
- Arabic: “بوكافو”
- Armenian: “Բուկավու”
- Asturian: “Bukavu”
- Azerbaijani: “Bukavu”
- Basque: “Bukavu”
- Belarusian: “Букаву”
- Bengali: “বুকাভু”
- Breton: “Bukavu”
- Bulgarian: “Букаву”
- Catalan: “Bukavu”
- Cebuano: “Bukavu”
- Chinese: “布卡武”
- Croatian: “Bukavu”
- Czech: “Bukavu”
- Danish: “Bukavu”
- Dutch: “Bukavu”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بوكافو”
- Esperanto: “Bukavu”
- Estonian: “Bukavu”
- Ewe: “Bukavu”
- Finnish: “Bukavu”
- French: “Bukavu”
- Galician: “Bukavu”
- Georgian: “ბუკავუ”
- German: “Bukavu”
- Greek: “Μπουκάβου”
- Gujarati: “બુકાવુ”
- Hausa: “Bukavu”
- Hebrew: “בוקאבו”
- Hindi: “बुकावु”
- Hungarian: “Bukavu”
- Indonesian: “Bukavu”
- Italian: “Bukavu”
- Japanese: “ブカヴ”
- Japanese: “ブカブ”
- Kannada: “ಬುಕಾವು”
- Kongo: “Bukavu”
- Korean: “부카부”
- Latvian: “Bukavu”
- Lingala: “Bukavu”
- Lithuanian: “Bukavu”
- Luba-Lulua: “Bukavu”
- Luxembourgish: “Bukavu”
- Macedonian: “Букаву”
- Malay: “Bukavu”
- Marathi: “बुकाऊ”
- Mingrelian: “ბუკავუ”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Bukavu”
- Norwegian: “Bukavu”
- Persian: “بوکاوا”
- Polish: “Bukavu”
- Portuguese: “Bucavu”
- Romanian: “Bukavu”
- Russian: “Букаву”
- Serbian: “Bukavu”
- Serbian: “Букаву”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Bukavu”
- Shona: “Bukavu”
- Sinhala: “බුකවූ”
- Slovak: “Bukavu”
- Slovenian: “Bukavu”
- South Azerbaijani: “بوکاوا”
- Spanish: “Bukavu”
- Swahili: “Bukavu”
- Swedish: “Bukavu”
- Tagalog: “Bukavu”
- Tajik: “Букаву”
- Tamil: “புகவு”
- Telugu: “బుకావు”
- Thai: “บูคาวู”
- Thai: “บูโควานี”
- Turkish: “Bukavu”
- Ukrainian: “Букаву”
- Urdu: “بوکاوو”
- Vietnamese: “Bukavu”
- Waray (Philippines): “Bukavu”
- Zulu: “Bukavu”
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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Place de la Paix and Nyofu.
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