Kibuye

Kibuye is a city in western 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.
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  • Town with 12,300 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of 1,480 metres (4,856 feet)
  • …is also known as “Kibuye, Rwanda”
  • Description: city in Rwanda

Places of Interest

Highlights include Museum of Environment and St. Pierre Church, Kibuye.

Museum
Photo: Annick green, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Memorial
Photo: Adam63, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a memorial.

Guest house
Photo: Adam63, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a guest house.

Kibuye

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Latitude
-2.0604° or 2° 3′ 37″ south
Longitude
29.3486° or 29° 20′ 55″ east
Open location code
6G9FW8QX+RC
Open­Street­Map ID
node 11379237296
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
202065
Wiki­data ID
Q617032

Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Amharic to Zulu—“Kibuye” goes by many names.
  • Amharic: “ኪቡዬ”
  • Arabic: “كيبوي”
  • Arabic: “كيبويي”
  • Asturian: “Kibuye”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kibuye”
  • Basque: “Kibuye”
  • Bengali: “কারোঙ্গি”
  • Bengali: “কিবুয়ে”
  • 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”
  • Hausa: “Kibuye, ƙasar Rwanda”
  • Hausa: “Kibuye”
  • Hebrew: “קיבויה”
  • Hindi: “किबुये”
  • Indonesian: “Kibuye”
  • Japanese: “キブイェ”
  • Japanese: “キブエ”
  • Javanese: “Kibuye”
  • Kazakh: “Кибуйе”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Kibuye, Rwanda”
  • Kirghiz: “Кибуйе”
  • Korean: “키부예”
  • Lithuanian: “Kibujė”
  • Malay: “Kibuye”
  • Northern Frisian: “Kibuye”
  • Oromo: “Kibuye”
  • Panjabi: “ਕਿਬੁਏ”
  • Persian: “کیبویه”
  • Polish: “Kibuye”
  • Portuguese: “Kibuye”
  • Portuguese: “Quibuie”
  • Pushto: “کيبويي”
  • Romanian: “Kibuye”
  • Russian: “Кибуе”
  • Somali: “Kibuye, Rwanda”
  • Somali: “Kibuye”
  • Spanish: “Kibuye”
  • Swahili: “Kibuye, Rwanda”
  • Swahili: “Kibuye”
  • Swedish: “Kibuye”
  • Tajik: “Kibuye”
  • Tatar: “Кибуйе”
  • Turkish: “Kibuye”
  • Urdu: “کیبویے”
  • Uzbek: “Kibuye”
  • Western Mari: “Кибуйе”
  • Zulu: “Kibuye, Ruwanda”

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Localities in the Area

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