1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Congo - Kinshasa
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01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Bukavu—816,811, Africa/Lubumbashi, and source coordinates—from live travel claims. Those fields identify and compare the record; they do not prove current transport, accessibility, census totals, or a City Atlas Club visit.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Bukavu is GeoNames ID 217831. Its recorded administrative path is Bukavu → South Kivu → Congo - Kinshasa, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Bukavu occurs once as a primary city label in this atlas sample; the numeric ID remains the durable source key if names change. The city row itself was updated 2026-04-13; that date belongs to the source record, not to every transport or visitor detail in the real destination.
Within the fixed 1,206-record atlas, Bukavu ranks 682 by recorded population. Inside the 11 selected Congo - Kinshasa entries it ranks 6; inside the 243 entries in its broad region it ranks 134. Its 816,811 population value is 1.00 times the 816,811 median for the country cohort and 0.90 times the 902,588 regional median. Bukavu sits in the second quarter of this atlas's Congo - Kinshasa population cohort. Bukavu's recorded value stays within one quarter of the country-cohort median used here. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Bukavu's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Bujumbura at 114.612 km with 769,317 recorded people; Kigali at 147.894 km with 1,132,686 recorded people; Mwanza at 450.717 km with 1,104,521 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 336.105 km. Compared with Bujumbura, Bukavu's recorded population is 1.06 times as large. Against Bukavu, Bujumbura follows Mukaza → Bujumbura Mairie → Burundi in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the selected Burundi cohort rather than Congo - Kinshasa, uses Africa/Bujumbura instead of Africa/Lubumbashi, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Bukavu's. Against Bukavu, Kigali follows Nyarugenge District → Kigali → Rwanda in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the selected Rwanda cohort rather than Congo - Kinshasa, uses Africa/Kigali instead of Africa/Lubumbashi, and carries capital of a political entity rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Bukavu's. Against Bukavu, Mwanza follows Nyamagana District → Mwanza → Tanzania in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the selected Tanzania cohort rather than Congo - Kinshasa, uses Africa/Dar_es_Salaam instead of Africa/Lubumbashi, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above Bukavu's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 747 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Bukavu's nearest-coordinate gap belongs to the wider half of atlas distances. This pattern can reveal whether other catalog references are geographically close, but it cannot establish whether a border crossing is possible or practical, or whether rail, road, fare, or journey-time connections exist. Read as one record signature, GeoNames 217831, the coordinate pair 2.4908 / 28.8428, country rank 6 of 11, and neighbor GeoNames 425378 at 114.612 km bind Bukavu to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Bukavu's reference point is 2.4908° south and 28.8428° east. The IANA identifier Africa/Lubumbashi is shared by 8 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. Bukavu's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Bukavu's point falls in the near-equatorial coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Bukavu's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Bukavu, so the profile preserves that missing value instead of guessing terrain. Together these fields form a reproducible identity check for this page, not a claim about walkability, climate or accessibility.
03Nearby atlas references
Bukavu's closest other entries in this atlas are Bujumbura (114.612 km), Kigali (147.894 km), Mwanza (450.717 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2026-04-13; the atlas checked the dataset 2026-08-04. Available Wikidata fields were verified in the same run.
GeoNames data: CC BY 4.0. Wikidata labels and descriptions: CC0 1.0.