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Gicumbi

Gicumbi is a district in Northern Province of . Gicumbi is one of five districts of Northern Province used to be called Byumba Province. Gicumbi covers 829 lm2 Gicumbi is located in the east of the Northern Province, the northern side of Gicumbi borders…
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  • Type: City with 70,600 residents
  • Description: District in Rwanda
  • Also known as: “Byumba” and “Gicumbi District”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Diocese of Byumba.

Church
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The Roman Catholic is an ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in . It was erected on November 5, 1981, by Pope John Paul II. The diocese is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Kigali.

Gicumbi

Latitude
-1.5792° or 1° 34′ 45″ south
Longitude
30.0678° or 30° 4′ 4″ east
Population
70,600
Elevation
1,849 metres (6,066 feet)
Open location code
6GCGC3C9+84
Open­Street­Map ID
node 282222437
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
7688806
Wiki­data ID
Q2424750
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In Other Languages

From Bengali to Zulu—“Gicumbi” goes by many names.
  • Bengali: “গিকুম্বি জেলা”
  • Catalan: “Districte de Gicumbi”
  • Cebuano: “Gicumbi District”
  • Chinese: “Gicumbi Koān”
  • Chinese: “吉昆比縣”
  • Chinese: “奇甘比縣”
  • Danish: “Gicumbi”
  • Dutch: “Gicumbi District”
  • Dutch: “Gicumbi”
  • French: “district de Gicumbi”
  • French: “District de Gicumbi”
  • French: “Gicumbi (district)”
  • French: “Gicumbi”
  • German: “Distrikt Gicumbi”
  • Greek: “Δήμος Γκικούμπι”
  • Italian: “distretto di Gicumbi”
  • Italian: “Distretto di Gicumbi”
  • Japanese: “ギクンビ郡”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Akarere ka Gicumbi”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Gicumbi Koān”
  • Persian: “شهرستان جیکومبی”
  • Portuguese: “Gicumbi”
  • Portuguese: “Guicumbi”
  • Swahili: “Wilaya ya Gicumbi”
  • Western Mari: “Гичумби”
  • Zulu: “Gicumbi District”

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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 “Gicumbi”. Photo: Protais1, CC BY-SA 4.0.