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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Claude McNab, Public domain.
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- Type: Ruins
- Description: island in Tanzania
- Also known as: “Kilwa Kisiwani”, “Quiloa”, and “Ruins of Kilwa Kisiwani”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kilwa Masoko.
Kilwa Masoko
Town
Photo: Gustavgraves, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Kilwa Masoko or Masoko is an administrative ward in Kilwa District of Lindi Region in Tanzania. The ward covers an area of 200 km2, and has an average elevation of 11 m. Kilwa Masoko is situated 3½ km northeast of Kilwa.
Kilwa
- Categories: island, human settlement, and historic site
- Location: Masoko, Kilwa District Council, Lindi, Pembwe and the Southeast, Tanzania, East Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-8.9602° or 8° 57′ 37″ southLongitude
39.4963° or 39° 29′ 47″ eastElevation
12 metres (39 feet)Open location code
6G3X2FQW+WGOpenStreetMap ID
node 3945633325OpenStreetMap feature
historic=ruins
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Kilwa” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Kilwa”
- Arabic: “جزيرة كلوة”
- Arabic: “جزيرة كيلوا”
- Arabic: “سلطنة كيلوا”
- Arabic: “كلوه”
- Armenian: “Կիլվա Կիսիվանի”
- Asturian: “Kilwa Kisiwani”
- Azerbaijani: “Kilva-Kisivani”
- Basque: “Kilwa Kisiwani”
- Belarusian: “Кілва-Кісівані”
- Bengali: “কিলওয়া কিসিওয়ানি”
- Bhojpuri: “किल्वा किसिवानी”
- Bulgarian: “Килва Кисивани”
- Bulgarian: “Килва”
- Bulgarian: “Килуа”
- Burmese: “ကေလ်ဝါ ကစ်ဆီဝါနီ”
- Catalan: “Kilwa Kisawani”
- Catalan: “Kilwa Kisiwani”
- Cebuano: “Kilwa Kisiwani Island”
- Chinese: “基卢瓦基西瓦尼”
- Chinese: “基尔瓦基斯瓦尼”
- Croatian: “Kilwa Kisiwani”
- Czech: “Kilwa Kisiwani”
- Danish: “Kilwa Kisiwani”
- Dutch: “Kilwa Kisiwani”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جزيرة كيلوا”
- Esperanto: “Kilwa Kisiwani”
- Fiji Hindi: “Kilwa Kisiwani”
- Finnish: “Kilwa Kisiwani”
- Finnish: “Kilwa”
- French: “Kilwa kisiwani”
- French: “Kilwa Kisiwani”
- French: “Quiloa”
- Georgian: “კილვა კისივანი”
- Georgian: “კილვა-კისივანი”
- German: “Große Moschee (Kilwa Kisiwani)”
- German: “Kilwa Kisiwani und Songo Mnara”
- German: “Kilwa Kisiwani”
- German: “Quiloa”
- Hebrew: “קילווה קיסיוואני”
- Hindi: “किल्वा किसिवानी”
- Indonesian: “Kilwa Kisiwani”
- Italian: “Kilwa Kisiwani”
- Italian: “Kilwa”
- Japanese: “キルワ・キシワニ”
- Japanese: “キルワ”
- Japanese: “キルワ島”
- Korean: “킬와 키시와니”
- Kotava: “Kilwa”
- Lithuanian: “Kilva Kisivanis”
- Maithili: “किल्वा किसिवानी”
- Malagasy: “Kilwa”
- Nepali: “किल्वा किसिवानी”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kilwa Kisiwani”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kilwa Kisiwanis og Songo Mnaras ruiner”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Songo Mnara”
- Norwegian: “Kilwa Kisiwani”
- Persian: “کیلوا کیسیوانی”
- Polish: “Kilwa Kisiwani”
- Polish: “Kilwa”
- Portuguese: “Ilha Quíloa”
- Portuguese: “Kilwa kisiwani”
- Portuguese: “Kilwa Kisiwani”
- Portuguese: “Quiloa”
- Portuguese: “Quíloa”
- Russian: “Килва-Кисивани”
- Russian: “Килва”
- Serbian: “Килва”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Kilwa Kisiwani”
- Slovak: “Kilwa Kisiwani”
- Slovenian: “Kilwa Kisiwani”
- Spanish: “Kilwa Kisiwani”
- Spanish: “Ruinas de Kilwa Kisiwani y de Songo Mnara”
- Swahili: “Kilwa Kisiwani”
- Swahili: “Quiloa”
- Swedish: “Kilwa Kisiwani”
- Swedish: “Kilwa”
- Thai: “กิลวากีซีวานี”
- Turkish: “Kilwa Kisiwani”
- Ukrainian: “Кілва Кісівані”
- Urdu: “جزیرہ کلوہ”
- Vietnamese: “Kilwa Kisiwani”
- Zulu: “Kilwa Kisiwani”
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