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Goma

Goma

Goma is the capital of Northern province of the Democratic Republic of Congo in the extreme east on the border with Rwanda.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Goma International Airport and Munzenze Central Prison.

Aerodrome
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, colloquially known by its acronym AIG based on its French name, is the primary serving Goma, the capital of province in the .

Prison
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Stadium
Photo: MONUSCO Photos, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Stade de l'Unité is a multi-use in Goma, . It is currently used mostly for football matches and serves as the home venue for AS Dauphins Noirs, DC Virunga and AS Kabasha.

Goma

Latitude
-1.6666° or 1° 39′ 60″ south
Longitude
29.2257° or 29° 13′ 32″ east
Population
2,000,000
Elevation
1,518 metres (4,980 feet)
IATA airport code
GOM
United Nations Location Code
CD GOM
Open location code
6GCF86MG+97
Open­Street­Map ID
node 60715164
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
216281
Wiki­data ID
Q204381
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Goma” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Goma”
  • Arabic: “غوما”
  • Armenian: “Գոմա”
  • Asturian: “Goma”
  • Asturian: “Kinshasa-Gombe”
  • Basque: “Goma”
  • Belarusian: “Goma”
  • Belarusian: “Гома”
  • Bengali: “Goma”
  • Bengali: “গুমা”
  • Bosnian: “Goma”
  • Breton: “Goma”
  • Bulgarian: “Goma”
  • Bulgarian: “Гома”
  • Catalan: “Goma”
  • Cebuano: “Goma”
  • Central Kurdish: “گۆما”
  • Chinese: “Goma”
  • Chinese: “戈馬”
  • Chinese: “戈马”
  • Chinese: “戈马市”
  • Croatian: “Goma”
  • Czech: “Goma”
  • Czech: “Ngoma”
  • Danish: “Goma”
  • Dutch: “Goma”
  • Esperanto: “Goma”
  • Estonian: “Goma”
  • Finnish: “Goma”
  • French: “Goma”
  • Galician: “Goma”
  • Georgian: “გომა”
  • German: “Goma”
  • Greek: “Γκόμα”
  • Gujarati: “ગોમા”
  • Hausa: “Goma”
  • Hebrew: “גומה”
  • Hindi: “गोमा”
  • Hungarian: “Goma”
  • Indonesian: “Goma”
  • Interlingue: “Goma”
  • Italian: “Goma”
  • Japanese: “ゴマ”
  • Kannada: “ಗೋಮ”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Goma”
  • Kongo: “Goma”
  • Korean: “고마”
  • Latvian: “Goma”
  • Limburgan: “Goma”
  • Lingala: “Goma”
  • Lithuanian: “Goma”
  • Luba-Lulua: “Goma”
  • Malay: “Goma”
  • Maori: “Goma”
  • Maori: “Koma”
  • Marathi: “गोमा”
  • Mingrelian: “გომა”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Goma”
  • Norwegian: “Goma”
  • Persian: “گوما”
  • Piemontese: “Goma”
  • Polish: “Goma”
  • Portuguese: “Goma”
  • Romanian: “Goma”
  • Russian: “Гома”
  • Serbian: “Goma”
  • Serbian: “Ville de Goma”
  • Serbian: “Гома”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Goma”
  • Shona: “Goma”
  • Silesian: “Goma”
  • Sinhala: “ගොමා”
  • Slovak: “Goma”
  • Slovenian: “Goma”
  • South Azerbaijani: “قوما”
  • Spanish: “Goma”
  • Swahili: “Goma”
  • Swedish: “Goma”
  • Tamil: “கோமா”
  • Telugu: “గోమా”
  • Thai: “โกมา”
  • Turkish: “Goma”
  • Ukrainian: “Гома”
  • Urdu: “گوما”
  • Vietnamese: “Goma”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Goma, Congo”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Goma”
  • Yoruba: “Goma”
  • Zulu: “Goma, Khongo-Kinshasa”

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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 “Goma”. Photo: MONUSCO Photos, CC BY-SA 2.0.