Kikwit
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| Coordinates | 5 ° 2 ′ S , 18 ° 50 ′ E | ||
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| Country | Democratic Republic of Congo | ||
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| ISO 3166-2 | CD-KL | ||
| surface | 92 km² | ||
| Residents | 294,210 (2004) | ||
| density | 3,197.9 Ew. / km² | ||
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Kikwit is a city in the province of Kwilu in the western part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo . It is located on the Kwilu River , about 540 km southeast of Kinshasa .
geography
The estimates of Kikwit's population vary widely. According to Encarta , the population was estimated at 182,142 in 1994, while other sources say it had around a million inhabitants in 1995. Science journalist Laurie Garrett wrote in 1995 from 250,000 to 500,000 residents. Estimates for 2004 are between 233,700 and 294,210 inhabitants.
The city is located at the outermost navigable point of the Kwilu and has been an economic and administrative center since the early 20th century. It has an airport . Since 2011, Kikwit has been reliably connected to the capital Kinshasa again by the renewed National Road 1 (N1) . The 560 km long section, funded by the World Bank and the European Union , has significantly improved the living conditions of the residents of Kikwit and the surrounding area.
history
During the First Congo War , the city was captured on April 30, 1997 by insurgent units on their way to Kinshasa.
Culture, health and education
Kikwit is the bishopric of the Roman Catholic diocese of Kikwit, which was raised by the Apostolic Vicariate in 1959 .
In an outbreak of the Ebola virus in Kikwit in 1995, a total of 250 of 315 infected people died. Medical care was still catastrophic in 2009. For example, at the Hôpital Général du Kikwit hospital , the operating room had no running water. There was electricity by the hour. Only the children's ward is halfway acceptable since the German aid organization “ Hammer Forum ” got involved there.
The "Université de Kikwit", which opened in 1992, is located in Kikwit. Your only library has 6161 books (as of Dec. 2008) for all departments combined.
Climate table
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Average monthly temperatures and rainfall for Kikwit
Source: wetterkontor.de
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Individual evidence
- ↑ MSN Encarta: Kikwit ( Memento April 20, 2005 in the Internet Archive ), accessed September 5, 2008
- ↑ British Council LearnEnglish: Outbreak of Ebola virus (May 11, 1995) ( Memento of the original from August 21, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed September 5, 2008
- ↑ Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online: Kikwit (Democratic Republic of the Congo) , accessed September 5, 2008
- ↑ The Pulitzer Prizes: A Journalist in Kikwit , by Laurie Garrett. June 6, 1995, accessed September 5, 2008
- ↑ Kongo-Kinshasa.de: Glossary: Kikwit , accessed on September 5, 2008
- ^ Britannica Online Encyclopedia: Kikwit , accessed September 5, 2008
- ↑ Hilfsverein Elikia-CONGO eV (ed.): Elikia-CONGO . Visit 2017.
- ↑ The asphalt shines in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung on November 20, 2011, page 11
- ^ Catholic Hierarchy: Diocese of Kikwit
- ↑ WHO fact sheet no.103: Ebola haemorrhagic fever ( Memento from September 16, 2008 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on September 8, 2008
- ^ Hammer Forum eV: Democratic Republic of the Congo , accessed on January 27, 2009
- ↑ unikik.net ( Memento of the original from February 17, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed February 21, 2017
