Congolese port on Lake Tanganyika's western shore
A port town on the western shore of Lake Tanganyika, with a lake harbor and an airport. It is a crossing point toward Tanzania across the lake.
Founded as Albertville in the colonial period, it was a rail-and-lake transport link. Its port connected the Congo interior with East African trade routes.
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