Kilwa
Kilwa is an island and a small village in Southeast Tanzania. The Great Mosque at KilwaKilwa Kisiwani was once a thriving Arab city-state on the large island surrounded by the Kilwa Bay.Photo: Claude McNab, Public domain.
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Localities in the Area
Kilwa Masoko
Photo: Gustavgraves, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Kilwa Masoko or Masoko is an administrative ward in Kilwa District of Lindi Region in Tanzania. Kilwa Masoko is situated 3½ km northeast of Kilwa.
Kilwa
- Type: Ruins
- Description: island in Tanzania
- Categories: island, human settlement and historic site
- Location: Masoko, Kilwa District Council, Lindi, Pembwe and the Southeast, Tanzania, East Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-8.9602° or 8° 57' 37" southLongitude
39.4963° or 39° 29' 47" eastElevation
12 metres (39 feet)Open Location Code
6G3X2FQW+WGOpenStreetMap ID
node 3945633325OpenStreetMap Feature
historic=ruinsGeoNames ID
157382Wikidata ID
Q1741475Kilwa Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Afrikaans: Kilwa
- Arabic: جزيرة كلوة
- Arabic: جزيرة كيلوا
- Arabic: سلطنة كيلوا
- Arabic: كلوه
- Armenian: Կիլվա Կիսիվանի
- Asturian: Kilwa Kisiwani
- Avaric: Kilwa
- Azerbaijani: Kilva-Kisivani
- Basque: Kilwa Kisiwani
- Belarusian: Кілва-Кісівані
- Bengali: কিলওয়া কিসিওয়ানি
- Bhojpuri: किल्वा किसिवानी
- Bulgarian: Килва
- Bulgarian: Килва Кисивани
- Bulgarian: Килуа
- Burmese: ကေလ်ဝါ ကစ်ဆီဝါနီ
- Catalan: Kilwa Kisawani
- Catalan: Kilwa Kisiwani
- Cebuano: Kilwa Kisiwani Island
- Chinese: 基卢瓦基西瓦尼
- Chinese: 基尔瓦基斯瓦尼
- Croatian: Kilwa Kisiwani
- Czech: Kilwa Kisiwani
- Danish: Kilwa Kisiwani
- Dutch: Kilwa Kisiwani
- Egyptian Arabic: جزيرة كيلوا
- English: Kilwa Kisiwani
- English: Quiloa
- Esperanto: Kilwa Kisiwani
- Fiji Hindi: Kilwa Kisiwani
- Finnish: Kilwa
- Finnish: Kilwa Kisiwani
- French: Kilwa Kisiwani
- French: Kilwa kisiwani
- French: Quiloa
- Georgian: კილვა-კისივანი
- Georgian: კილვა კისივანი
- German: Große Moschee (Kilwa Kisiwani)
- German: Kilwa Kisiwani
- German: Kilwa Kisiwani und Songo Mnara
- German: Quiloa
- Hebrew: קילווה קיסיוואני
- Hindi: किल्वा किसिवानी
- Indonesian: Kilwa Kisiwani
- Italian: Kilwa
- Italian: Kilwa Kisiwani
- Japanese: キルワ
- Japanese: キルワ・キシワニ
- Japanese: キルワ島
- Korean: 킬와 키시와니
- Kotava: Kilwa
- Maithili: किल्वा किसिवानी
- Malagasy: Kilwa
- Nepali: किल्वा किसिवानी
- Norwegian: Kilwa Kisiwani
- Norwegian Bokmål: Kilwa Kisiwani
- Norwegian Bokmål: Kilwa Kisiwanis og Songo Mnaras ruiner
- Norwegian Bokmål: Songo Mnara
- Persian: کیلوا کیسیوانی
- Polish: Kilwa
- Polish: Kilwa Kisiwani
- Portuguese: Ilha Quíloa
- Portuguese: Kilwa Kisiwani
- Portuguese: Kilwa kisiwani
- Portuguese: Quiloa
- Portuguese: Quíloa
- Russian: Килва-Кисивани
- Russian: Килва
- Serbian: Килва
- Serbo-Croatian: Kilwa Kisiwani
- Slovak: Kilwa Kisiwani
- Slovenian: Kilva
- Spanish: Kilwa Kisiwani
- Spanish: Ruinas de Kilwa Kisiwani y de Songo Mnara
- Swahili: Kilwa Kisiwani
- Swedish: Kilwa
- Swedish: Kilwa Kisiwani
- Thai: กิลวากีซีวานี
- Turkish: Kilwa Kisiwani
- Urdu: جزیرہ کلوہ
- Vietnamese: Kilwa Kisiwani
- Zulu: Kilwa Kisiwani
- Ruins of Kilwa Kisiwani
Other Places Named Kilwa
In the Area
- Kilwa KisiwaniHamlet
- Kilwa KisiwaniVillage
- MparaVillage, 16 km northwest
- Pande PlotVillage, 20 km south
- villageVillage, 20 km south
- KizimbaniVillage, 23 km southwest
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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 Wikivoyage page Kilwa. Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.