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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Town with 17,600 residents
- Description: human settlement
- Also known as: “Kisolo”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Mutolere.
Mutolere
Village
Mutolere is a neighborhood in Kisoro Municipality, Kisoro District, in the Western Region of Uganda. Mutolere is situated 3½ km northeast of Kisoro.
Kisoro
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Bufumbira, Kisoro District, Western Uganda, Uganda, East Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-1.2822° or 1° 16′ 56″ southLongitude
29.6927° or 29° 41′ 34″ eastPopulation
17,600Elevation
1,924 metres (6,312 feet)IATA airport code
KXOOpen location code
6GCFPM9V+43OpenStreetMap ID
node 435662822OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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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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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Kisoro”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC0.