Rumbek
Rumbek is the capital of Lakes State in the Bahr el Ghazal region of South Sudan. Rumbek has about 32,100 residents.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: JennaCB123, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Itsnre zlu, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Holy Family Cathedral and Rumbek Airport.
Holy Family Cathedral
Church
Photo: Itsnre zlu, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Holy Family Cathedral or Cathedral of Rumbek, is a religious building belonging to the Roman Catholic Church is located in the town of Rumbek, capital of Lakes State, in the African country of South Sudan, and that serves as the seat of the bishop of Rumbek.
Rumbek Airport
Aerodrome
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Rumbek Airport is an airport in South Sudan, near Rumbek, the capital of Lakes State. The airport is served by several national airlines and by air charter service providers.
Rumbek
- Type: City with 32,100 residents
- Description: human settlement
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Lakes, Bahr el Ghazal, South Sudan, Central Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
6.8064° or 6° 48′ 23″ northLongitude
29.6767° or 29° 40′ 36″ eastPopulation
32,100Elevation
428 metres (1,404 feet)IATA airport code
RBXUnited Nations Location Code
SS RUMOpen location code
6GRFRM4G+HMOpenStreetMap ID
node 3275722461OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
367927Wikidata ID
Q607336
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Zulu—“Rumbek” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “رمبك”
- Arabic: “رمبيك (مدينة)”
- Arabic: “رمبيك”
- Bengali: “রুমবেক”
- Bulgarian: “Румбек”
- Catalan: “Rumbek”
- Cebuano: “Rumbek”
- Chinese: “伦拜克”
- Chinese: “倫貝克”
- Danish: “Rumbek”
- Dutch: “Rumbek”
- Egyptian Arabic: “رمبيك”
- Esperanto: “Rumbek”
- Finnish: “Rumbek”
- French: “Rumbek”
- Georgian: “რუმბეკი”
- German: “Rumbek”
- German: “Rumbik”
- Greek: “Ρούμπεκ”
- Gujarati: “રમ્બેક”
- Hebrew: “רומבק”
- Hindi: “रुम्बेक”
- Hungarian: “Rumbek”
- Indonesian: “Rumbek”
- Italian: “Rumbek”
- Japanese: “ルンベク”
- Kannada: “ರುಮ್ಬೆಕ್”
- Korean: “룸베크”
- Latvian: “Rumbeka”
- Lithuanian: “Rumbekas”
- Malay: “Rumbek”
- Marathi: “रुमबिक”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Rumbek”
- Norwegian: “Rumbek”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Rumbek”
- Polish: “Rumbek”
- Portuguese: “Rumbek”
- Portuguese: “Rumbeque”
- Romanian: “Rumbek”
- Russian: “Румбек”
- Russian: “Румбеке”
- Serbian: “Румбек”
- Sinhala: “රුම්බෙක්”
- Spanish: “Rumbek”
- Swedish: “Rumbek”
- Tamil: “றும்பேக்”
- Telugu: “రుంబెక్”
- Thai: “รัมเบค”
- Turkish: “Rumbek”
- Ukrainian: “Румбек”
- Urdu: “رمبک”
- Vietnamese: “Rumbek”
- Waray (Philippines): “Rumbek”
- Zulu: “Rumbek”
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