Bumba
Bumba is a town of 108,000 people in Congo Basin region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo on the right bank of the Congo River and close to the confluence of the Itimbiri.
- Type: City with 155,000 residents
- Description: port locality, capital of the territory of Bumba, in the province of Mongala in the north of the Democratic Republic of Congo
- Also known as: “Bumba, Democratic Republic of the Congo”, “Bumba, RDC”, “Bumba, republica democrată congo”, “Bumba, República Democrática del Congo”, and “Bumba, republik demokratik kongo”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Bumba Airport.
Bumba
- Category: locality
- Location: Bumba, Mongala, Congo Basin, DR Congo, Central Africa, Africa
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Latitude
2.1837° or 2° 11′ 2″ north
Longitude
22.4665° or 22° 27′ 60″ east
Population
155,000
Elevation
362 metres (1,188 feet)
IATA airport code
BMB
UN/LOCODE
CD BMB
Open location code
6GJ45FM8+FJ
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Zulu—“Bumba” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بومبا”
- Asturian: “Bumba”
- Bengali: “বুম্বা”
- Catalan: “Bumba”
- Cebuano: “Bumba”
- Chinese: “奔巴”
- Chinese: “本巴”
- Danish: “Bumba”
- Dutch: “Bumba”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بومبا”
- Esperanto: “Bumba”
- Finnish: “Bumba (Kongon demokraattinen tasavalta)”
- Finnish: “Bumba”
- French: “Bumba”
- Georgian: “ბუმბა”
- German: “Bumba”
- Greek: “Μπούμπα”
- Gujarati: “બુંબા”
- Hindi: “बुम्बा”
- Indonesian: “Bumba, Republik Demokratik Kongo”
- Indonesian: “Bumba”
- Italian: “Bumba”
- Japanese: “ブンバ”
- Kannada: “ಬಂಬಾ”
- Korean: “붐바”
- Latvian: “Bumba”
- Lingala: “Bumba”
- Lithuanian: “Bumba”
- Luxembourgish: “Bumba”
- Malay: “Bumba”
- Marathi: “बुम्बा”
- Mingrelian: “ბუმბა”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Bumba”
- Persian: “بامبا”
- Polish: “Bumba”
- Portuguese: “Bumba”
- Romanian: “Bumba, Republica Democrată Congo”
- Romanian: “Bumba”
- Russian: “Бумба”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Bumba”
- Sinhala: “බම්බා”
- Spanish: “Bumba”
- Swahili: “Bumba”
- Swedish: “Bumba”
- Tagalog: “Bumba, Demokratikong Republika ng Congo”
- Tagalog: “Bumba”
- Tamil: “பூம்பா”
- Telugu: “బుమ్బా”
- Thai: “บัมแบร์ก”
- Turkish: “Bumba”
- Ukrainian: “Бумба”
- Urdu: “بومبا، جمہوری جمہوریہ کانگو”
- Urdu: “بومبا”
- Vietnamese: “Bumba”
- Zulu: “Bumba, Khongo-Kinshasa”
- Zulu: “Bumba”
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Places to explore: Ouest-Bumba and Bopoto.
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