Kivu
Kivu is a region in the east of Democratic Republic of the Congo. It runs along the western shore of Lake Tanganyika.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Julien Harneis, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Virunga National Park and Goma.
Virunga National Park
Photo: Caitjeenk, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Virunga National Park is in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It was declared a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1979, but was labelled a site in danger in 1994 due to political conflict and poaching.
Goma
Photo: MONUSCO Photos, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Goma is the capital of Northern province of the Democratic Republic of Congo in the extreme east on the border with Rwanda.
Bukavu
Bukavu is in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is on the border with Rwanda. This area has suffered from some of the ongoing political unrest.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Kahuzi-Biéga National Park and Bunagana.
Kahuzi-Biéga National Park
Photo: Joe McKenna, CC BY 2.0.
The Kahuzi-Biega National Park is a protected area near Bukavu town in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is situated near the western bank of Lake Kivu and the Rwandan border.
Bunagana
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Bunagana is at the far western edge of the Kivu region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, just over the border from a tranquil and hard-working region of Uganda. As of October 2022, it was under the control of the March 23 Movement rebel militia.
Kivu
- Type: region
- Description: region in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Location: DR Congo, Central Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude of center
-2.5° or 2° 30′ southLongitude of center
28° eastWikidata ID
Q1743993
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Venetian—“Kivu” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كيوة”
- Asturian: “Kivu”
- Catalan: “Kivu”
- Chinese: “基伍”
- Chinese: “基伏”
- Corsican: “Kivu”
- Dutch: “Kivu”
- Finnish: “Kivu”
- French: “Grand Kivu”
- French: “Kivou”
- French: “Kivu”
- French: “Kivus”
- Galician: “Kivu”
- German: “Kivu”
- Hebrew: “קיוו”
- Indonesian: “Kivu”
- Italian: “Kivu”
- Japanese: “キヴ州”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kivu-regionen”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kivu”
- Norwegian: “Kivu”
- Portuguese: “Kivu”
- Portuguese: “Quivu”
- Russian: “Киву”
- Scots: “Kivu”
- Slovak: “Kivu”
- Slovenian: “Kivu”
- Spanish: “Kivu”
- Spanish: “Provincia de Kivu”
- Swahili: “Kivu”
- Swedish: “Kivu”
- Swedish: “Kivuregionen”
- Venetian: “Kivu”
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About Mapcarta. 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 “Kivu”. Photo: Julien Harneis, CC BY-SA 2.0.