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.Localities in the Area
Cyangugu
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Bukavu
- Type: City with 817,000 residents
- Description: provincial capital and city in South Kivu, DR Congo
- Categories: human settlement, border city, administrative territorial entity and locality
- Location: South Kivu Province, Kivu, DR Congo, Central Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-2.5056° or 2° 30' 20" southLongitude
28.8595° or 28° 51' 34" eastPopulation
817,000Elevation
1,631 metres (5,351 feet)IATA airport code
BKYUnited Nations Location Code
CD BKYOpen Location Code
6G9CFVV5+QQOpenStreetMap ID
node 436044301OpenStreetMap Feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
217831Wikidata ID
Q222279Bukavu Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Afrikaans: Bukavu
- Afrikaans: Costermansstad
- Afrikaans: Costermansville
- Arabic: Bukavu
- Arabic: بوكافو
- Armenian: Բուկավու
- Asturian: Bukavu
- Azerbaijani: Bukavu
- Basque: Bukavu
- Belarusian: Букаву
- Bengali: বুকাভু
- Breton: Bukavu
- Breton: Costermansville
- Bulgarian: Букаву
- Catalan: Bukavu
- Cebuano: Bukavu
- Chinese: 布卡武
- Croatian: Bukavu
- Czech: Bukavu
- Danish: Bukavu
- Dutch (Historic): Costermansstad
- Dutch: Bukavu
- Dutch: Costermansstad
- Dutch: Costermansville
- Egyptian Arabic: بوكافو
- English: Costermansstad
- English: Costermansville
- Esperanto: Bukavu
- Esperanto: Costermansstad
- Esperanto: Costermansville
- Estonian: Bukavu
- Estonian: Costermansville
- Finnish: Bukavu
- French (Historic): Costermansville
- French: BK
- French: Bukavu
- French: Costermansville
- French: Kuvumu
- Georgian: ბუკავუ
- German: Bukavu
- German: Costermansstad
- German: Costermansville
- Greek: Μπουκάβου
- Gujarati: બુકાવુ
- Hausa: Bukavu
- Hebrew: בוקאבו
- Hindi: बुकावु
- Hungarian: Bukavu
- Indonesian: Bukavu
- Italian: Bukavu
- Italian: Costermansstad
- Italian: Costermansville
- Japanese: ブカブ
- Japanese: ブカヴ
- Kannada: ಬುಕಾವು
- Korean: 부카부
- Latvian: Bukavu
- Lingala: Bukavu
- Lithuanian: Bukavu
- Lithuanian: Kostermanvilis
- Luxembourgish: Bukavu
- Macedonian: Букаву
- Malay: Bukavu
- Marathi: बुकाऊ
- Mingrelian: ბუკავუ
- Norwegian: Bukavu
- Norwegian Bokmål: Bukavu
- Norwegian Bokmål: Costermansville
- Persian: بوکاوا
- Polish: Bukavu
- Polish: Costermansville
- Portuguese: Bucavu
- Romanian: Bukavu
- Romanian: Costermansstad
- Romanian: Costermansville
- Russian: Букаву
- Serbian: Bukavu
- Serbian: Ville de Bukavu
- Serbian: Букаву
- Shona: Bukavu
- Sinhala: බුකවූ
- Slovak: Bukavu
- Slovenian: Bukavu
- South Azerbaijani: بوکاوا
- Spanish: Bukavu
- Spanish: Costermansville
- Swahili: BK
- Swahili: Bukavu
- Swedish: Bukavu
- Swedish: Costermansstad
- Swedish: Costermansville
- Tagalog: Bukavu
- Tamil: புகவு
- Telugu: బుకావు
- Thai: บูโควานี
- Turkish: Bukavu
- Ukrainian: Букаву
- Ukrainian: Костермансвіль
- Urdu: بوکاوو
- Vietnamese: Bukavu
- Waray (Philippines): Bukavu
- Zulu: Bukavu
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