Gombe
Gombe, Butambala, often referred to simply as Gombe, is a municipality in Butambala District in the Central Region of Uganda. It is the main municipal, administrative, and commercial center of the district and the site of the district headquarters.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Village with 16,600 residents
- Description: town in Butambala, Uganda
- Also known as: “Gombe, Butambala”
Gombe
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Mpenja, Gomba County, Gomba District, Central Uganda, Uganda, East Africa, Africa
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Latitude
0.29997° or 0° 17′ 60″ northLongitude
32.15017° or 32° 9′ 1″ eastPopulation
16,600Elevation
1,190 metres (3,904 feet)Open location code
6GGJ75X2+X3OpenStreetMap ID
node 2229108019OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
233382Wikidata ID
Q5581118
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Zulu—“Gombe” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Gombe”
- Fulah: “Gombe Batumbala”
- Ganda: “Gombe, Butambala”
- Ganda: “Gombe”
- Hausa: “Gombe”
- Hebrew: “גומבה”
- Irish: “Gombe”
- Japanese: “ゴンベ”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Gombe”
- Swahili: “Gombe, Butambala”
- Swahili: “Gombe”
- Urdu: “گومبے، بوتامبالا، یوگنڈا”
- Urdu: “گومبے، بوتامبالا”
- Zulu: “Gombe, Butambala”
- Zulu: “Gombe”
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