Gatumba
Gatumba is a village in western Burundi, near the border with the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The place is known for a massacre that took place at Gatumba refugee camp connected to the village.Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Gatumba
- Type: Town with 18,100 residents
- Description: town in Burundi
- Category: locality
- Location: Mutimbuzi, Bujumbura Rural Province, Burundi, East Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-3.33488° or 3° 20′ 6″ southLongitude
29.25296° or 29° 15′ 11″ eastPopulation
18,100Elevation
780 metres (2,559 feet)Open location code
6G8FM783+25OpenStreetMap ID
node 801770794OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
425309Wikidata ID
Q5527537
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Uzbek—“Gatumba” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جاتومبا”
- Asturian: “Gatumba”
- Dutch: “Gatumba”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جاتومبا”
- French: “Gatumba”
- Hausa: “Gatumba”
- Polish: “Gatumba”
- Rundi: “Gatumba”
- Russian: “Гатумба”
- Uzbek: “Gatumba”
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