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.
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  • Type: Town with 17,600 residents
  • Description: human settlement
  • Also known as: Kisolo

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

Latitude
-1.2822° or 1° 16′ 56″ south
Longitude
29.6927° or 29° 41′ 34″ east
Population
17,600
Elevation
1,924 metres (6,312 feet)
IATA airport code
KXO
Open location code
6GCFPM9V+43
Open­Street­Map ID
node 435662822
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
230993
Wiki­data ID
Q525954
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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.