Byumba
Byumba is a city and sector in northern Rwanda and the capital of Gicumbi District. It is home to an SOS Children's Village. The city lies about 60 kilometres, north of the capital Kigali.- Type: Locality with 43,100 residents
- Description: the first hospital in gicumbi district
- Also known as: “Byumba hospital” and “found in northern province,in gicumbi district”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Diocese of Byumba.
Diocese of Byumba
Church
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The Roman Catholic Diocese of Byumba is an ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in Rwanda. It was erected on November 5, 1981, by Pope John Paul II. The diocese is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Kigali.
Byumba
- Category: city
- Location: Gisuna, Byumba, Gicumbi, Northern Province, Rwanda, East Africa, Africa
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Zulu—“Byumba” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بيومبا”
- Asturian: “Byumba”
- Basque: “Byumba”
- Catalan: “Byumba”
- Cebuano: “Byumba”
- Chinese: “比温巴”
- Chinese: “比溫巴”
- Croatian: “Byumba”
- Czech: “Byumba”
- Danish: “Byumba”
- Dutch: “Byumba”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بيومبا”
- Estonian: “Byumba”
- French: “Byumba”
- German: “Byumba”
- Greek: “Μπιούμπα”
- Hausa: “Byumba”
- Italian: “Byumba”
- Japanese: “ビュンバ”
- Kinyarwanda: “Byumba iherereye mu ntara y’amajyaruguru,mu karere ka gicumbi”
- Kinyarwanda: “IBITARO BYA BYUMBA”
- Korean: “븀바”
- Korean: “비움바”
- Lithuanian: “Bjumba”
- Northern Frisian: “Byumba”
- Persian: “بیومبا”
- Polish: “Byumba”
- Portuguese: “Biumba”
- Portuguese: “Byumba”
- Romanian: “Byumba”
- Russian: “Биумба”
- Russian: “Бьюмба”
- South Azerbaijani: “بیومبا”
- Spanish: “Byumba”
- Swahili: “Byumba”
- Turkish: “Byumba”
- Ukrainian: “Б’юмба”
- Ukrainian: “Бьюмба”
- Urdu: “بیومبا”
- Western Mari: “Бьумба”
- Western Mari: “Бьюмба”
- Western Mari: “Бюмба”
- Yue Chinese: “比溫巴”
- Zulu: “Byumba”
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