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Gombe

Gombe, also known as La Gombe, or Downtown Kinshasa, is one of the 24 communes of , in the western part of the .
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  • Type: Suburb with 32,400 residents
  • Description: commune in the province of Kinshasa
  • Also known as: “Gombe, Kinshasa”, “Kalina”, “Kin-gombe”, “Kinshasa-Gombe”, “La gombe”, and “La Gombe”

Places of Interest

Highlights include National Palace and Stade des Martyrs.

Government building
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
The Palace of the Nation is the official residence and principal workplace of the President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is situated in Gombe, in the northern part of , next to the .

Stadium
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The Pentecost Martyrs Stadium, commonly referred to as the and formerly known as Stade Kamanyola, is a national multi-purpose stadium of the , located in . is situated 3½ km southeast of Gombe.

Government office
The Institut National de la Recherche Biomédicale is the national medical research organization of the . The responsible ministry is the Ministry of Scientific Research and Technology.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Kinshasa and Brazzaville.

Photo: Antoine Moens de Hase, CC BY 2.0.
is the capital of the . It faces , the capital of the neighbouring , which can be seen in the distance across the wide Congo River.

Photo: Prével EPOTA, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is the capital of the Republic of Congo, and serves as the financial and administrative center of the country. It can be a pleasant stopover to Pointe Noire or visits to the Congolese rain forests.

Gombe

Latitude
-4.315° or 4° 18′ 54″ south
Longitude
15.2834° or 15° 17′ 0″ east
Population
32,400
Elevation
281 metres (922 feet)
Open location code
6F7QM7PM+29
Open­Street­Map ID
node 435748363
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­suburb
Geo­Names ID
7701220
Wiki­data ID
Q3078952
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In Other Languages

From Basque to Swedish—“Gombe” goes by many names.
  • Basque: “La Gombe”
  • Catalan: “Gombe”
  • Cebuano: “Gombe (teritoryo)”
  • Cebuano: “Gombe”
  • Chinese: “貢貝區”
  • Chinese: “贡贝区”
  • Dutch: “Gombe”
  • French: “Gombe”
  • French: “Kallina”
  • French: “La Gombe”
  • German: “Gombe”
  • German: “Kallina”
  • German: “La Gombe”
  • Hausa: “Gombe, Kinshasa”
  • Hausa: “Gombe”
  • Hausa: “LGA”
  • Indonesian: “La Gombe”
  • Italian: “Gombe”
  • Japanese: “ラ・ゴンベ”
  • Kongo: “Gômbé komine ya kizunga”
  • Kongo: “Gômbé”
  • Lingala: “Gombe”
  • Lingala: “La Gombe”
  • Polish: “Gombe”
  • Portuguese: “Gombe”
  • Slovenian: “Gombe”
  • Slovenian: “Kallina”
  • Slovenian: “La Gombe”
  • Spanish: “Gombe”
  • Spanish: “La Gombe”
  • Swedish: “Gombe”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Gombe”. Photo: Vberger, Public domain.