Gombe
Gombe is the capital city of Gombe State, North East Nigeria, with an estimated population of 262,000. The city is the headquarters of the Gombe Emirate, a traditional state that covers most of Gombe state. This article also covers the nearby town of Tunfure.
- Type: City with 560,000 residents
- Description: local government area in Gombe State, Nigeria
- Also known as: “Gombe, Nigeria”
Gombe
- Categories: local government area of Nigeria, human settlement, and administrative territorial entity
- Location: Gombe State, North East Nigeria, Nigeria, West Africa, Africa
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Latitude
10.2841° or 10° 17′ 3″ north
Longitude
11.1653° or 11° 9′ 55″ east
Population
560,000
Elevation
460 metres (1,509 feet)
IATA airport code
GMO
UN/LOCODE
NG GBE
Open location code
7F2H75M8+J4
OpenStreetMap ID
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Yoruba—“Gombe” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ጓምቤ”
- Arabic: “جومبي”
- Arabic: “غومبي”
- Azerbaijani: “Gombe”
- Bengali: “গোম্বী, নাইজেরিয়া”
- Bengali: “গোম্বে”
- Bole: “Gombe”
- Catalan: “Gombe”
- Chinese: “貢貝”
- Croatian: “Gombe”
- Czech: “Gombe”
- Danish: “Gombe”
- Dutch: “Gombe”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جومبى”
- Esperanto: “Gombe”
- Finnish: “Gombe”
- French: “Gombe”
- Fulah: “Gombe”
- Galician: “Gombe, Nixeria”
- German: “Gombe”
- Greek: “Γκόμπε”
- Gujarati: “ગોમ્બે, નાઇજીરિયા”
- Hausa: “Gombe”
- Hindi: “गाम्बेय”
- Hindi: “गोम्बे”
- Igbo: “Gombe”
- Indonesian: “Gombe, Nigeria”
- Indonesian: “Gombe”
- Italian: “Gombe”
- Japanese: “ゴンベ”
- Javanese: “Gombe”
- Kannada: “ಗೊಂಬೆ, ನೈಜೀರಿಯಾ”
- Karekare: “Gombe”
- Kazakh: “Гомбе”
- Kirghiz: “Гомбе”
- Korean: “곰베”
- Latvian: “Gombe”
- Lithuanian: “Gombė”
- Malay: “Gombe, Nigeria”
- Malay: “Gombe”
- Marathi: “गोम्ब, नायजेरिया”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Gombe”
- Northern Frisian: “Gombe”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Gombe”
- Norwegian: “Gombe”
- Oromo: “Gombe”
- Panjabi: “ਗੋਮਬੇ”
- Persian: “گومبه”
- Polish: “Gombe”
- Portuguese: “Gombe”
- Pushto: “ګومبی”
- Romanian: “Gombe, Nigeria”
- Russian: “Гомбе”
- Sinhala: “ගොම්බේ ,නයිජීරියා”
- Somali: “Gombe”
- South Azerbaijani: “قومبه”
- Spanish: “Gombe”
- Swahili: “Gombe (mji)”
- Swahili: “Gombe”
- Swedish: “Gombe”
- Tajik: “Гомбе”
- Tamil: “கோம்பே, நைஜீரியா”
- Tatar: “Гомбе”
- Telugu: “గొంబే, నైజీరియా”
- Thai: “กอมบี, ไนจีเรีย”
- Turkish: “Gombe, Nijerya”
- Turkish: “Gombe”
- Ukrainian: “Гомбе”
- Urdu: “گومبے، نائجیریا”
- Urdu: “گومبے”
- Uzbek: “Gombe”
- Vietnamese: “Gombe, Nigeria”
- Yoruba: “Gòmbè”
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