Kigali

Kigali is the capital of . The centre of political and commercial life, Kigali dominates Rwanda and few visit the country without passing through.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations: Kabuga.

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is a town in the and districts, Kigali City, . is a satellite town of Kigali. The name translates to, "a place where cattle are kept" in Kinyarwanda.
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Places of Interest

Highlights: Amahoro Stadium and BK Arena.

Stadium
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The , officially known as Amahoro National Stadium, is a multi-purpose stadium in the Gasabo district of Kigali, . With a capacity of 45,508, it is the largest stadium in Rwanda and hosts football matches, concerts, and public events.

Stadium
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is a multi-purpose indoor arena in Kigali, , used mostly for basketball and volleyball matches. Built and finished in 2019, it hosts sporting events and concerts.

Convention center
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The is a convention Centre in Kigali, the capital and largest city in .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Nyandungu Eco-park.

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is a restored wetland and forest area in Kigali, . The park has ornamental ponds, eastern gallery forests, medicinal plant gardens, paved walk ways, restaurants, information centers and other recreational services.

Kigali

Latitude
-1.9534° or 1° 57′ 12″ south
Longitude
30.114° or 30° 6′ 50″ east
Population
1,750,000
Elevation
1,542 metres (5,059 feet)
IATA airport code
KGL
UN/LOCODE
RW KGL
Open location code
6GCG24W7+JJ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 60485579
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
202061
Wiki­data ID
Q3859
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Kigali” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Kigali”
  • Albanian: “Kigali”
  • Amharic: “ኪጋሊ”
  • Arabic: “كيغالي”
  • Aragonese: “Kigali”
  • Armenian: “Կիգալի”
  • Asturian: “Kigali”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kiqali”
  • Balinese: “Kigali”
  • Basque: “Kigali”
  • Belarusian: “Кігалі”
  • Bengali: “কিগালি”
  • Bosnian: “Kigali”
  • Breton: “Kigali”
  • Bulgarian: “Кигали”
  • Catalan: “Kigali”
  • Cebuano: “Kigali”
  • Central Kanuri: “Bǝrni kura Rwanda yǝ”
  • Central Kanuri: “Kigali”
  • Central Kurdish: “کیگالی”
  • Chechen: “Кигали”
  • Chinese: “吉佳利”
  • Chinese: “基加利”
  • Chuvash: “Кигали”
  • Cornish: “Kigali”
  • Croatian: “Kigali”
  • Czech: “Kigali”
  • Danish: “Kigali”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Kigali”
  • Dutch: “Kigali”
  • Esperanto: “Kigalio”
  • Esperanto: “Kigalo”
  • Estonian: “Kigali”
  • Extremaduran: “Kigali”
  • Faroese: “Kigali”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Kigali”
  • Finnish: “Kigali”
  • French: “Kigali”
  • Ga: “Kigali”
  • Galician: “Kigali”
  • Ganda: “Kigali”
  • Georgian: “კიგალი”
  • German: “Kigali”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Kigali”
  • Greek: “Κιγκάλι”
  • Guarani: “Kigali”
  • Gujarati: “કિગાલી”
  • Haitian: “Kigali”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Kigali”
  • Hausa: “Kigali”
  • Hebrew: “קיגאלי”
  • Hindi: “किगाली”
  • Hungarian: “Kigali”
  • Icelandic: “Kígalí”
  • Ido: “Kigali”
  • Iloko: “Kigali”
  • Inari Sami: “Kigali”
  • Indonesian: “Kigali”
  • Interlingua: “Kigali”
  • Interlingue: “Kigali”
  • Irish: “Kigali”
  • Italian: “Kigali”
  • Japanese: “キガリ”
  • Javanese: “Kigali”
  • Kabiyè: “Kigaalii”
  • Kabyle: “Kigali”
  • Kalaallisut: “Kigali”
  • Kannada: “ಕಿಗಾಲಿ”
  • Kannada: “ಕಿಗಾಲೀ”
  • Kazakh: “Кигали”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Kigali”
  • Kirghiz: “Кигали”
  • Komering: “Kigali”
  • Komi-Permyak: “Кигали”
  • Kongo: “Kigali”
  • Korean: “키갈리”
  • Kotava: “Kigali”
  • Kurdish: “Kîgalî”
  • Latin: “Kigali”
  • Latvian: “Kigali”
  • Ligurian: “Kigali”
  • Lingala: “Kigali”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Kigali”
  • Lithuanian: “Kigalis”
  • Livvi: “Kigali”
  • Lombard: “Kigali”
  • Low German: “Kigali”
  • Luxembourgish: “Kigali”
  • Macedonian: “Кигали”
  • Malagasy: “Kigali”
  • Malay: “Kigali”
  • Malayalam: “കിഗാലി”
  • Marathi: “किगाली”
  • Mazanderani: “کیگالی”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Kigali”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Kigali”
  • Minangkabau: “Kigali”
  • Mingrelian: “კიგალი”
  • Moksha: “Кигали”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “كيڭالي”
  • Northern Frisian: “Kigali”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kigali”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kigali”
  • Norwegian: “Kigali”
  • Novial: “Kigali”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Kigali”
  • Ossetian: “Кигали”
  • Panjabi: “ਕਿਗਾਲੀ”
  • Papiamento: “Kigali”
  • Persian: “کیگالی”
  • Piemontese: “Kigali”
  • Polish: “Kigali”
  • Portuguese: “Kigali”
  • Portuguese: “Quigali”
  • Pushto: “کیګالی”
  • Quechua: “Kigali”
  • Romanian: “Kigali”
  • Rundi: “Kigali”
  • Russian: “Кигали”
  • Sakizaya: “Ci-cya-li”
  • Santali: “ᱠᱤᱜᱟᱞᱤ”
  • Sardinian: “Kigali”
  • Scots: “Kigali”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Kigali”
  • Serbian: “Кигали”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kigali”
  • Shona: “Kigali”
  • Silesian: “Kigali”
  • Sindhi: “ڪيگالي”
  • Sinhala: “කිගාලි”
  • Slovak: “Kigali”
  • Slovenian: “Kigali”
  • Somali: “Kigali”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کیقالی”
  • Spanish: “Kigali”
  • Swahili: “Kigali”
  • Swedish: “Kigali”
  • Tagalog: “Kigali”
  • Tajik: “Кигали”
  • Tajik: “Кигалӣ”
  • Talysh: “Kigali”
  • Tamil: “கிகாலி”
  • Telugu: “కిగాలీ”
  • Thai: “คิกาลี”
  • Tibetan: “ཀི་ག་ལི།”
  • Tumbuka: “Kigali”
  • Turkish: “Kigali”
  • Tyap: “Kigali”
  • Udmurt: “Кигали”
  • Ukrainian: “Кігалі”
  • Ukrainian: “Кіґалі”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Kigali”
  • Urdu: “کیگالی”
  • Uzbek: “Kigali”
  • Venetian: “Kigali”
  • Veps: “Kigali”
  • Vietnamese: “Kigali”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Kigali”
  • Welsh: “Kigali”
  • Western Frisian: “Kigali”
  • Western Frisian: “Kigaly”
  • Western Mari: “Кигали”
  • Western Panjabi: “کیگالی”
  • Wolof: “Kigali”
  • Wu Chinese: “基加利”
  • Yiddish: “קיגאלי”
  • Yoruba: “Kigali”
  • Yue Chinese: “基加利”
  • Zulu: “i-Kigali”
  • Zulu: “Kigali”
  • “Kigali”

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