Gombe State
Gombe State is a state in northeastern Nigeria, bordered to the north and northeast by the states of Borno in the vicinity of Gongola River and Lake Dadin Kowa and Yobe in the vicinity of Gongola River, to the south by Taraba State, to the southeast…| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Gombe
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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.
Akko
Akko is a local government area of Gombe, Gombe State, Nigeria. Its headquarters is in Kumo town on the A345 highway south of the state capital Gombe, about 40 km away.Nafada
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Nafada is one of the eleven Local Government Areas of Gombe State, Nigeria. Its headquarter is in the town of Nafada in the east of the area at, on the Gongola River which traverses the area.
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Billiri
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Billiri is one of the 11 Local Government Areas of Gombe State, Nigeria bordered to the north by Akko Local Government Area, south and east by Shongo, andnorthe-East by Kaltungo Local Government Area.
Dukku
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Dukku is a Local Government Area in Gombe State, Nigeria. Its headquarters is located in Dukku town. The Gongola River flows through the west and north of the LGA.
Kumo
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Kumo is a city and the headquarters of Akko local government in Gombe state, northeastern Nigeria. Kumo is the second largest commercial center in Gombe state, It is located on the A345 highway approximately 40 km south of Gombe.
Deba Habe
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Deba, sometimes known as Deba Habe, is a town in Gombe State in northern Nigeria. It is headquarter of the Yamaltu/Deba local government area, Gombe State. As of 1995, it had an estimated population of 135,400.
Bajoga
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Bajoga is a town and headquarters of Funakaye, a local government area located in the northern part of Gombe State, Nigeria. Bajoga is 9 km south of the Ashaka cement factory.
Gombe State
- Type: state of Nigeria with 2,450,000 residents
- Description: State in northern Nigeria
- Also known as: “Gombe” and “Jewel in the Savannah”
- Neighbors: Adamawa State, Bauchi State, Borno State, Taraba State, and Yobe State
- Location: North East Nigeria, Nigeria, West Africa, Africa
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yoruba—“Gombe State” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “غومبي”
- Arabic: “ولاية غومبي”
- Azerbaijani: “Qombe ştatı”
- Azerbaijani: “Qombe”
- Bengali: “গোম্বে অঙ্গরাজ্য”
- Bulgarian: “Гомбе”
- Catalan: “Estat de Gombe”
- Catalan: “Gombe”
- Cebuano: “Gombe”
- Central Kanuri: “Bula gombe yǝ”
- Central Kanuri: “Gombe”
- Chinese: “Gombe Chiu”
- Chinese: “貢貝州”
- Chinese: “贡贝州”
- Croatian: “Gombe, nigerijska država”
- Croatian: “Gombe”
- Czech: “Gombe (stát)”
- Czech: “Gombe”
- Danish: “Gombe”
- Dutch: “Gombe”
- Esperanto: “Gombe Ŝtato”
- Esperanto: “Gombe”
- Esperanto: “subŝtato Gombe”
- Estonian: “Gombe osariik”
- Finnish: “Gombe”
- French: “État de Gombe”
- French: “Gombe”
- Fulah: “Diiwal Gombe”
- Fulah: “Leyddi Gommbe”
- Galician: “Estado de Gombe”
- Georgian: “გომბეს შტატი”
- German: “Gombe”
- Greek: “Γκόμπε”
- Gujarati: “ગોમ્બે સ્ટેટ”
- Gun: “Ayimatẹn Gombe Tọn”
- Hausa: “Gombawa ɗiban fari”
- Hausa: “Gombe”
- Hausa: “Jihar Gombe”
- Hindi: “गोम्बे राज्य”
- Igala: “Gombe state”
- Igbo: “Ȯra Gombe”
- Indonesian: “Gombe”
- Italian: “Gombe”
- Japanese: “ゴンベ州”
- Kannada: “ಗೊಂಬೆ ರಾಜ್ಯ”
- Kanuri: “Bula gombe yǝ”
- Korean: “곰베주”
- Kurdish: “Gombe”
- Latvian: “Gombe”
- Latvian: “Gombes štats”
- Lithuanian: “Gombės valstija”
- Malay: “Gombe State”
- Marathi: “गोमे राज्य”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Gombe Chiu”
- Mirandese: “Gombe”
- Nigerian Pidgin: “Gombe State”
- Nigerian Pidgin: “Gombe”
- Northern Frisian: “Gombe”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Gombe”
- Norwegian: “Gombe”
- Obolo: “Gombe (Agan̄-mkpulu)”
- Obolo: “Gombe”
- Persian: “ایالت گومبه”
- Polish: “Gombe”
- Portuguese: “Gombe”
- Romanian: “Statul Gombe”
- Russian: “Гомбе”
- Serbian: “Гомбе”
- Sindhi: “گومبي رياست”
- Sinhala: “ගොම්බෙ රාජ්ය”
- Sinhala: “ගොම්බේ ප්රාන්තය”
- South Azerbaijani: “قومبه ایالتی”
- Spanish: “Estado de Gombe”
- Spanish: “Gombe”
- Swahili: “Jimbo la Gombe”
- Swedish: “Gombe”
- Tamil: “கொம்பே மாநிலம்”
- Telugu: “గోంబె రాష్ట్రము”
- Telugu: “గోంబె స్టేట్”
- Thai: “กอมเบ”
- Tumbuka: “Gombe State, Nigeria”
- Turkish: “Gombe Eyaleti”
- Turkish: “Gombe”
- Tyap: “Gwombe”
- Tyap: “Si̱tet Gwombe”
- Ukrainian: “Гомбе”
- Urdu: “گومبے اسٹیٹ”
- Urdu: “گومبے ریاست”
- Vietnamese: “Bang Gombe”
- Waray (Philippines): “Gombe (estado)”
- Waray (Philippines): “Gombe”
- Western Mari: “Гомбе”
- Yoruba: “Gombe State”
- Yoruba: “Ìpínlẹ̀ Gombe”
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