Gisenyi
Gisenyi, historically rendered as Kisenyi, is the second largest city in Rwanda, located in the Rubavu district in Rwanda's Western Province. Gisenyi is contiguous with Goma, the city across the border in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.Photo: Francisco Anzola, CC BY 2.0.
Photo: Davyimage, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Places in the Area
Gisenyi
- Type: City with 172,000 residents
- Description: city in Rwanda
- Categories: border city and locality
- Location: Western Province, Rwanda, East Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-1.6935° or 1° 41' 37" southLongitude
29.2599° or 29° 15' 36" eastPopulation
172,000Elevation
1,461 metres (4,793 feet)United Nations Location Code
RW GYIOpen Location Code
6GCF8745+HWOpenStreetMap ID
node 271317488OpenStreetMap Feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
202905Wikidata ID
Q830631Gisenyi Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Arabic: جيسايني
- Assamese: গিছেন্যি
- Asturian: Gisenyi
- Basque: Gisenyi
- Bengali: গিসেনি
- Catalan: Gisenyi
- Cebuano: Gisenyi
- Chinese: 吉塞尼
- Chinese: 基塞尼
- Croatian: Gisenyi
- Czech: Gisenyi
- Danish: Gisenyi
- Dutch: Gisenyi
- Egyptian Arabic: جيساينى
- Esperanto: Gisenyi
- Estonian: Gisenyi
- Finnish: Gisenyi
- French: Gisenyi
- German: Gisenyi
- Greek: Γκισένι
- Gujarati: ગિસેની
- Hebrew: גיסאניי
- Hindi: गीज़ेनिए
- Hungarian: Gisenyi
- Indonesian: Gisenyi
- Italian: Gisenyi
- Japanese: ギセニ
- Japanese: ギセニイ
- Kannada: ಗಿಸೆನಿ
- Kinyarwanda: Umujyi wa Rubavu
- Korean: 기세니
- Latvian: Gisenija
- Lithuanian: Gisenji
- Lithuanian: Gisenjis
- Malay: Gisenyi
- Marathi: जिसेनियि
- Mongolian: Гисэньи
- Norwegian: Gisenyi
- Norwegian Bokmål: Gisenyi
- Polish: Gisenyi
- Portuguese: Gisenyi
- Portuguese: Guissenhi
- Romanian: Gisenyi
- Russian: Гисеньи
- Sinhala: ගිසේන්යි
- Slovak: Gisenyi
- Spanish: Gisenyi
- Swahili: Gisenyi
- Swedish: Gisenyi
- Tamil: கிசென்யி
- Telugu: గీజెన్యి
- Thai: จิเซนยี
- Turkish: Gisenyi
- Ukrainian: Гісеньї
- Urdu: جیسینیی
- Vietnamese: Gisenyi
- Western Mari: Гисеньи
- Zulu: Gisenyi
- Colline Gosenyi
- Gosenyi
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipdia page Gisenyi. Photo: Davyimage, CC BY-SA 4.0.