Gisenyi

Gisenyi, historically rendered as Kisenyi, is the second largest city in Rwanda, located in the Rubavu district in 's .
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  • Type: City with 172,000 residents
  • Description: city in Rubavu district, Western Province, Rwanda
  • Also known as: “city of rubavu” and “Gisenyi, Rwanda”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Gisenyi Airport.

Aerodrome
is an airport in . It has IATA airport code GYI.

Gisenyi

Latitude
-1.6935° or 1° 41′ 37″ south
Longitude
29.2599° or 29° 15′ 36″ east
Population
172,000
Elevation
1,461 metres (4,793 feet)
United Nations Location Code
RW GYI
Open location code
6GCF8745+HW
Open­Street­Map ID
node 271317488
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
202905
Wiki­data ID
Q830631
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Zulu—“Gisenyi” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “جيسايني”
  • Assamese: “গিছেন্যি”
  • Asturian: “Gisenyi”
  • Azerbaijani: “Qiseni”
  • Basque: “Gisenyi”
  • Bengali: “গিসেনি”
  • Catalan: “Gisenyi”
  • Catalan: “La ciutat de Rubavu”
  • Cebuano: “Ang lungsod sa Rubavu”
  • Cebuano: “Gisenyi”
  • Chinese: “吉塞尼”
  • Chinese: “基塞尼”
  • Croatian: “Gisenyi”
  • Czech: “Gisenyi”
  • Czech: “Město Rubavu”
  • Danish: “Gisenyi”
  • Danish: “Rubavu er en”
  • Dutch: “Gisenyi”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جيساينى”
  • Esperanto: “Gisenyi”
  • Estonian: “Gisenyi”
  • Finnish: “Gisenyi”
  • French: “Gisenyi”
  • French: “Gosenyi”
  • French: “La ville de Rubavu”
  • German: “Gisenyi”
  • Greek: “Γκισένι”
  • Gujarati: “ગિસેની”
  • Hebrew: “גיסאניי”
  • Hindi: “गीज़ेनिए”
  • Hungarian: “Gisenyi”
  • Indonesian: “Gisenyi”
  • Italian: “Gisenyi”
  • Japanese: “ギセニ”
  • Japanese: “ギセニイ”
  • Kannada: “ಗಿಸೆನಿ”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Gisenyi,Rwanda”
  • Kinyarwanda: “umujyi wa Rubavu”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Umujyi wa Rubavu”
  • Korean: “기세니”
  • Latvian: “Gisenija”
  • Lithuanian: “Gisenji”
  • Lithuanian: “Gisenjis”
  • Malay: “Gisenyi”
  • Marathi: “जिसेनियि”
  • Mongolian: “Гисэньи”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Gisenyi”
  • Norwegian: “Gisenyi”
  • Polish: “Gisenyi”
  • Portuguese: “Gisenyi”
  • Portuguese: “Guissenhi”
  • Romanian: “Gisenyi”
  • Russian: “Гисеньи”
  • Russian: “Кисеньи”
  • Russian: “Рубаву”
  • Silesian: “Gisenyi”
  • Sinhala: “ගිසේන්යි”
  • Slovak: “Gisenyi”
  • Spanish: “Gisenyi”
  • Spanish: “La ciudad de Rubavu”
  • Swahili: “Gisenyi”
  • Swedish: “Gisenyi”
  • Tamil: “கிசென்யி”
  • Telugu: “గీజెన్యి”
  • Thai: “จิเซนยี”
  • Turkish: “Gisenyi”
  • Ukrainian: “Гісеньї”
  • Urdu: “جیسینیی”
  • Vietnamese: “Gisenyi”
  • Western Mari: “Гисеньи”
  • Zulu: “Gisenyi”

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