Gombe (city)
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| Coordinates | 10 ° 17 ' N , 11 ° 10' E | ||
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| Country | Nigeria | ||
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| ISO 3166-2 | NG-GO | ||
| Residents | 198,546 (2012) | ||
Gombe is the capital of the Nigerian state of Gombe of the same name and is located in the northeast of Nigeria. According to a calculation from 2012, the city has 198,546 inhabitants.
history
The present-day town of Gombe is preceded by an older settlement, now called Alt-Gombe or Gombe Abba, 90 km to the northwest. In 1919 the British colonial administration moved its local seat to what is now the Gombe. In 1996 Gombe became the capital of the newly founded state of Gombe.
Gombe and its surroundings form the smallest of the eleven Local Government Areas (LGA) of the state of Gombe with an area of 51.82 km². In the penultimate census in 1991, the LGA had 169,783 inhabitants and thus a population density of 3276 inhabitants per km². At the time, the city itself had 163,604 inhabitants.
The Abubakar Umar Memorial Stadium is located in Gombe .
literature
- Balzerek, Heiko (2003): The urbanization process of a West African savannah city: Dynamics and consequences of hyperurbanization using the example of Gombe in northeast Nigeria. See: Dataset in the German National Library Frankfurt am Main (with link to full text)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Population data 2012 on World Gezatteer ( Memento of the original from December 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Nigeria Congress ( Memento from January 7, 2004 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ The 774 Local Governmnent Areas. Gombe Local Government Area. Nigeria Congress Online, archived from the original on January 7, 2004 ; accessed on March 24, 2007 (English).
