Kilwa
Kilwa is an island and a small village in Southeast Tanzania. Kilwa Kisiwani was once a thriving Swahili city-state on the large island surrounded by the Kilwa Bay.
Claude McNab, Public domain.
Wikimedia, Public domain.- Ruins
- …lies at an elevation of around 10 metres (40 feet)
- Description: island in Tanzania
- Also known as“Kilwa Kisiwani”“Quiloa”“Ruins of Kilwa Kisiwani”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kilwa Masoko.
Kilwa Masoko
Kilwa Masoko or MasokoPronunciation…
3½ km northeast of Kilwa
Kilwa
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Latitude
-8.9602° or 8° 57′ 37″ south
Longitude
39.4963° or 39° 29′ 47″ east
Open location code
6G3X2FQW+WG
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
historic = ruins
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Kilwa” goes by many names.
KilwaAfrikaans
جزيرة كلوةArabic
جزيرة كيلواArabic
سلطنة كيلواArabic
كلوهArabic
Կիլվա ԿիսիվանիArmenian
Kilwa KisiwaniAsturian
Kilva-KisivaniAzerbaijani
Kilwa KisiwaniBasque
Кілва-КісіваніBelarusian
কিলওয়া কিসিওয়ানিBengali
किल्वा किसिवानीBhojpuri
КилваBulgarian
Килва КисиваниBulgarian
КилуаBulgarian
ကေလ်ဝါ ကစ်ဆီဝါနီBurmese
Kilwa KisawaniCatalan
Kilwa KisiwaniCatalan
Kilwa Kisiwani IslandCebuano
基卢瓦基西瓦尼Chinese
基尔瓦基斯瓦尼Chinese
Kilwa KisiwaniCroatian
Kilwa KisiwaniCzech
Kilwa KisiwaniDanish
Kilwa KisiwaniDutch
جزيرة كيلواEgyptian Arabic
Kilwa KisiwaniEsperanto
Kilwa KisiwaniFiji Hindi
KilwaFinnish
Kilwa KisiwaniFinnish
Kilwa KisiwaniGalician
კილვა კისივანიGeorgian
Kilwa KisiwaniHausa
קילווה קיסיוואניHebrew
किल्वा किसिवानीHindi
Kilwa KisiwaniIndonesian
KilwaItalian
Kilwa KisiwaniItalian
キルワJapanese
キルワ・キシワニJapanese
キルワ島Japanese
킬와 키시와니Korean
KilwaKotava
Kilva KisivanisLithuanian
किल्वा किसिवानीMaithili
KilwaMalagasy
किल्वा किसिवानीNepali
Kilwa KisiwaniNigerian Pidgin
Kilwa KisiwaniNorwegian
Kilwa KisiwaniNorwegian Bokmål
Kilwa Kisiwanis og Songo Mnaras ruinerNorwegian Bokmål
Songo MnaraNorwegian Bokmål
کیلوا کیسیوانیPersian
KilwaPolish
Kilwa KisiwaniPolish
КилваRussian
Килва-КисиваниRussian
КилваSerbian
Kilwa KisiwaniSerbo-Croatian
Kilwa KisiwaniSlovak
Kilwa KisiwaniSlovenian
Kilwa KisiwaniSwahili
QuiloaSwahili
KilwaSwedish
Kilwa KisiwaniSwedish
กิลวากีซีวานีThai
Kilwa KisiwaniTurkish
Кілва КісіваніUkrainian
جزیرہ کلوہUrdu
Kilwa KisiwaniVietnamese
Kilwa KisiwaniZulu
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