Cyangugu
Cyangugu is a city and capital of the Rusizi District in Western Province, Rwanda. The city lies at the southern end of Lake Kivu, and is contiguous with Bukavu, Democratic Republic of the Congo, but separated from it by the Ruzizi River.- Type: City with 43,900 residents
- Description: city in Rwanda
- Also known as: “Rusisi” and “Shangugu”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bukavu.
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.Cyangugu
- Categories: human settlement, border city, and locality
- Location: Kamembe, Rusizi District, Western Province, Rwanda, East Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-2.4888° or 2° 29′ 20″ south
Longitude
28.8958° or 28° 53′ 45″ east
Population
43,900
Elevation
1,582 metres (5,190 feet)
Open location code
6G9CGV6W+F8
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Zulu—“Cyangugu” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “سيانجوجو”
- Arabic: “سيانغوغو”
- Asturian: “Cyangugu”
- Basque: “Cyangugu”
- Bengali: “রুসিজি”
- Catalan: “Cyangugu”
- Cebuano: “Cyangugu”
- Chinese: “尚古古”
- Croatian: “Cyangugu”
- Czech: “Cyangugu”
- Danish: “Cyangugu”
- Dutch: “Cyangugu”
- Egyptian Arabic: “سيانجوجو”
- Finnish: “Cyangugu”
- French: “Cyangugu”
- French: “Rusizi”
- German: “Cyangugu”
- Greek: “Κυανγκουγκού”
- Hausa: “Cyangugu”
- Hebrew: “סיאנגוגו”
- Irish: “Cyangugu”
- Japanese: “チャンググ”
- Japanese: “ルジン”
- Kinyarwanda: “Cyangugu”
- Korean: “치앙구구”
- Lithuanian: “Kjangugu”
- Lithuanian: “Šangugu”
- Polish: “Cyangugu”
- Portuguese: “Ciangugu”
- Portuguese: “Cyangugu”
- Russian: “Сиангугу”
- Russian: “Чьянгугу”
- Silesian: “Cyangugu”
- Spanish: “Cyangugu”
- Swahili: “Cyangugu”
- Swahili: “Kamembe”
- Swedish: “Cyangugu”
- Turkish: “Cyangugu”
- Urdu: “سیانگگوگو”
- Western Mari: “Чьянгугу”
- Zulu: “Cyangugu”
- “Cyangugu”
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