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″ south
Longitude
29.25296° or 29° 15′ 11″ east
Population
18,100
Elevation
780 metres (2,559 feet)
Open location code
6G8FM783+25
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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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”
- Urdu: “گاتومبا”
- Uzbek: “Gatumba”
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