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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- 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″ northLongitude
11.1653° or 11° 9′ 55″ eastPopulation
560,000Elevation
460 metres (1,509 feet)IATA airport code
GMOUnited Nations Location Code
NG GBEOpen location code
7F2H75M8+J4OpenStreetMap ID
node 501540886
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yoruba—“Gombe” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “غومبي”
- Bengali: “গোম্বী, নাইজেরিয়া”
- Catalan: “Gombe”
- Chinese: “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,”
- Hausa: “Gombe”
- Hausa: “LGA”
- Hindi: “गाम्बेय”
- Igbo: “Gombe”
- Indonesian: “Gombe, Nigeria”
- Italian: “Gombe”
- Japanese: “ゴンベ”
- Kannada: “ಗೊಂಬೆ, ನೈಜೀರಿಯಾ”
- Korean: “곰베”
- Latvian: “Gombe”
- Lithuanian: “Gombė, Nigerija”
- Malay: “Gombe, Nigeria”
- Marathi: “गोम्ब, नायजेरिया”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Gombe”
- Northern Frisian: “Gombe”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Gombe”
- Norwegian: “Gombe”
- Persian: “گومبه”
- Polish: “Gombe”
- Portuguese: “Gombe”
- Romanian: “Gombe, Nigeria”
- Russian: “Гомбе”
- Sinhala: “ගොම්බේ ,නයිජීරියා”
- South Azerbaijani: “قومبه”
- Spanish: “Gombe”
- Swahili: “Gombe (mji)”
- Swahili: “Gombe”
- Swedish: “Gombe”
- Tamil: “கோம்பே, நைஜீரியா”
- Telugu: “గొంబే, నైజీరియా”
- Thai: “กอมบี, ไนจีเรีย”
- Turkish: “Gombe, Nijerya”
- Ukrainian: “Гомбе”
- Urdu: “گومبے، نائجیریا”
- Vietnamese: “Gombe, Nigeria”
- Yoruba: “Gòmbè”
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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 “Gombe”. Photo: Atibrarian, CC BY-SA 3.0.