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Kikwit

Kikwit is the largest city in Kwilu Province, in the southwest of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Kikwit
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Kikwit is the largest city in Kwilu Province, in the southwest of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Located at the furthest navigable point of the Kwilu River, the urban area of Kikwit is primarily on the river's left bank. With over half a million inhabitants, Kikwit is a secondary city of the country. It is divided into four communes: Kazamba, Lukemi, Lukolela, and Nzinda.

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What is there

Worth seeing in and around Kikwit

One place within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

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    Université de Kikwit

    The University of Kikwit is a public university in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, located in the province of Bandundu, city of Kikwit. At its creation, it was an Extension of the University of Kinshasa, then called University Centre of Kikwit.

    500 m · university in the DRC · Wikipedia

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Getting to Kikwit

Stations
Kikwit Airport, 3.6 km
  • Kinshasa → Kikwit
    396 km · quickest by road, 7h 37m · $41–55
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  • Kisangani → Kikwit
    940 km · quickest by road, 44h 43m · $145–195
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  • Brazzaville → Kikwit
    401 km · quickest by road, 17h 28m · $75–100
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Kikwit

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Kikwit. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

The nearest places where the work is done
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    Bwindi Impenetrable National ParkUG

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

    1,289 km
  2. 02
    PríncipeST

    7 ways of moving, 13 sources

    1,467 km
  3. 03
    Ssese IslandsUG

    11 ways of moving, 14 sources

    1,577 km
  4. 04
    EntebbeUG

    9 ways of moving, 37 sources

    1,617 km
  5. 05
    South Luangwa National Park and MfuweZM

    12 ways of moving, 36 sources

    1,682 km

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