“Kivu”

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Kivu, Lake

geographical name

lake 60 miles (96 kilometers) long and 30 miles (48 kilometers) wide in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo in the Great Rift Valley north of Lake Tanganyika area 1042 square miles (2699 square kilometers)

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