Kibuye
Kibuye is a city in western Rwanda on the shore of Lake Kivu — the surrounding area offers some stunning views of the lake. The new name is Karongi, most people still call it Kibuye though.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Adam63, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Adam Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Town with 12,300 residents
- Description: city in Rwanda
- Also known as: “Kibuye, Rwanda”
Places of Interest
Highlights include St. Pierre Church, Kibuye and Home Saint Jean Hotel.
St. Pierre Church, Kibuye
Memorial
Photo: Adam63, CC BY-SA 3.0.
St. Pierre Church, Kibuye is a memorial.
Home Saint Jean Hotel
Guest house
Photo: Adam63, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Home Saint Jean Hotel is a guest house.
Kibuye
- Categories: city and locality
- Location: Bwishyura, Karongi District, Western Province, Rwanda, East Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-2.0604° or 2° 3′ 37″ southLongitude
29.3486° or 29° 20′ 55″ eastPopulation
12,300Elevation
1,480 metres (4,856 feet)Open location code
6G9FW8QX+RCOpenStreetMap ID
node 11379237296OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
202065Wikidata ID
Q617032
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Zulu—“Kibuye” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كيبوي”
- Asturian: “Kibuye”
- Basque: “Kibuye”
- Bengali: “কারোঙ্গি”
- Catalan: “Kibuye”
- Cebuano: “Kibuye”
- Chinese: “基布耶”
- Croatian: “Kibuye”
- Danish: “Kibuye”
- Dutch: “Kibuye”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كيبوى”
- Estonian: “Kibuye”
- French: “Kibuye”
- German: “Kibuye”
- Greek: “Κιμπούγιε”
- Hebrew: “קיבויה”
- Japanese: “キブエ”
- Kinyarwanda: “Kibuye, Rwanda”
- Korean: “키부예”
- Lithuanian: “Kibujė”
- Northern Frisian: “Kibuye”
- Polish: “Kibuye”
- Portuguese: “Kibuye”
- Portuguese: “Quibuie”
- Romanian: “Kibuye”
- Russian: “Кибуе”
- Spanish: “Kibuye”
- Swahili: “Kibuye, Rwanda”
- Swahili: “Kibuye”
- Swedish: “Kibuye”
- Turkish: “Kibuye”
- Urdu: “کیبویے”
- Western Mari: “Кибуйе”
- Zulu: “Kibuye, Ruwanda”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Kibuye”. Photo: Adam Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0.