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South Kivu (Swahili: Jimbo la Kivu Kusini; French: Sud-Kivu) is one of 26 provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). [3] Its capital is Bukavu.. Situated within the Great Rift Valley, South Kivu is bordered by Lake Kivu, Burundi, and Tanzania to the east; Maniema Province to the west; North Kivu Province to the north; and Tanganyika Province to the south.
Map of eastern Democratic Republic of Congo North Kivu and South Kivu ("the Kivus"). Kivu was the name for a large "region" in the Democratic Republic of the Congo under the rule of Mobutu Sese Seko that bordered Lake Kivu.
A 1955–1957 map shows Sud-Kivu District bordered by Nord-Kivu District to the north, Rwanda-Burundi to the east, Tanganika District to the south and Maniema District to the west. [6] The area was 64,700 square kilometres (25,000 sq mi) out of a total of 259,000 square kilometres (100,000 sq mi) for Kivu province as a whole. [7]
With the fall of Goma nearly all of North Kivu is under M23 control. [30] As M23 captured most of the city, the rebel group's forces in the South Kivu province along the western shore of Lake Kivu began an offensive in the direction of the provincial capital Bukavu, about 125 miles (201 km) away from Goma, [78] on January 29. A senior Rwandan ...
South Kivu: 3 5 7 of 44 South Kivu: Bunia Ituri: 3 2 3 of 43 ... Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap. Download coordinates as: KML; GPX (all coordinates)
Bukavu is a city in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), lying at the extreme south-western edge of Lake Kivu, west of Cyangugu in Rwanda, and separated from it by the outlet of the Ruzizi River. It is the capital of the South Kivu Province and as of 2012 it had an estimated population of 806,940.
Masisi is bordered by Walikale Territory on the west and north, Rutshuru Territory to the northeast, Nyiragongo Territory and Goma to the east, and South Kivu to the south. Language-wise French is the DRC's administrative language. The most common language for a majority of the local population (56%) is Swahili.
The 25 provinces of DR Congo are divided into 145 territories (fr. territoires, sing.territoire) and 33 cities (fr. villes, sing. ville). [1] Each provincial division is also a constituency of the National Assembly as well as of the Provincial Assembly of its province.