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.
- Type: Town with 12,300 residents
- Description: city in Rwanda
- Also known as: “Kibuye, Rwanda”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Museum of Environment and St. Pierre Church, Kibuye.
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″ south
Longitude
29.3486° or 29° 20′ 55″ east
Population
12,300
Elevation
1,480 metres (4,856 feet)
Open location code
6G9FW8QX+RC
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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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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