Kisoro

The township of Kisoro only has about 18,000 inhabitants living in the town proper, but there are more than a quarter of a million in its district, mostly eking out a living as subsistence farmers on low incomes.
WikivoyageWikipedia
  • Town with about 17,600 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of around 1,890 metres (6,200 feet)
  • …has the IATA airport code KXO
  • …is also known as “Kisolo”
  • Description: human settlement

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Mutolere.
Village
is a neighborhood in Kisoro Municipality, , in the of . is situated 3½ km northeast of Kisoro.

Kisoro

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Latitude
-1.2822° or 1° 16′ 56″ south
Longitude
29.6927° or 29° 41′ 34″ east
Open location code
6GCFPM9V+43
Open­Street­Map ID
node 435662822
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
230993
Wiki­data ID
Q525954

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Zulu—“Kisoro” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “كيسورو”
  • Bengali: “কিসোরু”
  • Cebuano: “Kisoro”
  • Chinese: “基索罗”
  • Chinese: “基索羅”
  • Danish: “Kisoro”
  • Dutch: “Kisoro”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كيسورو”
  • Finnish: “Kisoro”
  • French: “Kisoro”
  • Ganda: “Kisoro”
  • German: “Kisoro”
  • Greek: “Κισόρο”
  • Gujarati: “કિસોરો”
  • Hindi: “किसोरो”
  • Indonesian: “Kisoro”
  • Irish: “Kisoro”
  • Italian: “Kisoro”
  • Japanese: “キソロ”
  • Kannada: “ಕಿಸೋರೊ”
  • Korean: “키소로”
  • Latvian: “Kisoro”
  • Lithuanian: “Kisoras”
  • Malay: “Kisoro”
  • Marathi: “किसोरो”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kisoro”
  • Persian: “کیسورو”
  • Polish: “Kisoro”
  • Portuguese: “Kisoro”
  • Romanian: “Kisoro”
  • Russian: “Кисоро”
  • Sinhala: “කිසොරෝ”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کیسورو”
  • Spanish: “Kisoro”
  • Swahili: “Kisoro”
  • Swedish: “Kisoro”
  • Tamil: “கிசோறோ”
  • Telugu: “కిసోరో”
  • Thai: “ไคโซโล”
  • Turkish: “Kisoro”
  • Ukrainian: “Кісоро”
  • Urdu: “کیسورو”
  • Vietnamese: “Kisoro”
  • Zulu: “Kisoro”

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