Ethiopia
Western Ethiopia
Gambella Region

Gambela

Gambela is a city in the very , capital of the eponymous region and close to the eponymous national park.
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  • Type: City with 31,300 residents
  • Description: city in Ethiopia
  • Also known as: “Gambeila”, “Gambēla”, “Gambela Post”, and “Gambella”

Gambela

Latitude
8.2504° or 8° 15′ 1″ north
Longitude
34.5877° or 34° 35′ 16″ east
Population
31,300
Elevation
439 metres (1,440 feet)
IATA airport code
GMB
United Nations Location Code
ET GMB
Open location code
6GWP7H2Q+43
Open­Street­Map ID
node 321376181
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
337405
Wiki­data ID
Q762656
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In Other Languages

From Amharic to Zulu—“Gambela” goes by many names.
  • Amharic: “ጋምቤላ”
  • Arabic: “غامبلا”
  • Arabic: “غامبيلا، إثيوبيا”
  • Arabic: “غامبيلا”
  • Asturian: “Gambela”
  • Bengali: “গাম্বেলা, ইথিওপিয়া”
  • Catalan: “Gambela”
  • Cebuano: “Gambēla”
  • Chinese: “甘貝拉”
  • Chinese: “甘贝拉”
  • Croatian: “Gambela”
  • Danish: “Gambela”
  • Dutch: “Gambela”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جامبيلا”
  • Esperanto: “Gambelo (urbo)”
  • Esperanto: “Gambelo”
  • Finnish: “Gambela, Etiopia”
  • Finnish: “Gambela”
  • French: “Gambela”
  • Georgian: “გამბელა”
  • German: “Gambela”
  • Greek: “Γκαμπέλα”
  • Greek: “Γκάμπελα”
  • Gujarati: “ગેમબેલા, ઇથોપિયા”
  • Hindi: “गम्बेला”
  • Indonesian: “Gambela, Ethiopia”
  • Italian: “Gambela”
  • Japanese: “ガンベラ (エチオピア)”
  • Japanese: “ガンベラ”
  • Kannada: “ಗುಂಬೆಲಾ, ಇಥಿಯೋಪಿಯಾ”
  • Korean: “감벨라”
  • Latvian: “Gambela”
  • Lithuanian: “Gambela”
  • Malay: “Gambela, Ethiopia”
  • Marathi: “गॅम्बेल, इथिओपिया”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Gambela, Ethiop”
  • Persian: “گامبلا”
  • Polish: “Gambela”
  • Portuguese: “Gambela (Etiópia)”
  • Romanian: “Gambela, Etiopia”
  • Russian: “Гамбела”
  • Russian: “Гамбеле”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Gambela”
  • Sinhala: “ගම්බෙලා ඉතියෝපියාව”
  • Spanish: “Gambela”
  • Swedish: “Gambela”
  • Tamil: “காம்பிலா, எத்தியோப்பியா”
  • Telugu: “గాంబేళా, ఇథోఫియా”
  • Thai: “แกมเบลา”
  • Turkish: “Gambela, Etiyopya”
  • Ukrainian: “Гамбела”
  • Urdu: “گامبیلا، ایتھوپیا”
  • Vietnamese: “Gambela, Ethiopia”
  • Zulu: “Gambela, Itiyopiya”

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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 Wikivoyage page “Gambela”. Photo: T U R K A I R O, CC BY 2.0.