Kumbo
Kumbo, also known as Kimbo, is the second-largest city in the North West Province of Cameroon and the capital of Bui Division. It lies about 2000m above sea level and is situated approximately 110 km away from Bamenda, on the Bamenda Highlands Ring Road.- Type: City with 125,000 residents
- Description: commune of Cameroon
- Also known as: “Banso”, “Bonso”, and “קימבו”
Kumbo
- Categories: commune of Cameroon and locality
- Location: North-West Region, Northwest Highlands, Cameroon, Central Africa, Africa
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Latitude
6.2109° or 6° 12′ 39″ north
Longitude
10.6868° or 10° 41′ 12″ east
Population
125,000
Elevation
1,687 metres (5,535 feet)
Open location code
6FRG6M6P+9P
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Kumbo” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كومبو”
- Armenian: “Կումբո”
- Asturian: “Kumbo”
- Belarusian: “Кумба”
- Bengali: “কুম্বো”
- Cebuano: “Kumbo”
- Chinese: “昆博”
- Danish: “Kumbo”
- Dutch: “Kumbo”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كومبو”
- Finnish: “Kumbo”
- French: “Kumbo”
- German: “Kumbo”
- Greek: “Κούμπο”
- Gujarati: “કુમ્બો”
- Hebrew: “קומבו”
- Hindi: “कुंबो”
- Indonesian: “Kumbo”
- Italian: “Kumbo”
- Japanese: “クンボ”
- Kannada: “ಕುಂಬೋ”
- Korean: “쿰보”
- Latvian: “Kumbo”
- Lithuanian: “Kumbas”
- Malay: “Kumbo”
- Marathi: “कुंबो”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Kumbo”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kumbo”
- Polish: “Kumbo”
- Portuguese: “Kumbo”
- Romanian: “Kumbo”
- Russian: “Кумбо”
- Sinhala: “කුම්බෝ”
- Spanish: “Kumbo”
- Swahili: “Kumbo”
- Swedish: “Kumbo”
- Tamil: “கும்போ”
- Telugu: “కుంబో”
- Thai: “คัมโบ”
- Turkish: “Kumbo”
- Ukrainian: “Кумбо”
- Urdu: “کمبو”
- Vietnamese: “Kumbo”
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