Gambella Region
The Gambela Region, officially the Gambela Peoples' Region, is a regional state in western Ethiopia, bordering South Sudan. Previously known as Region 12, its capital is Gambela.Photo: T U R K A I R O, CC BY 2.0.
Photo: Jempa 83, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Gambella Region
- Type: region of Ethiopia with 436,000 residents
- Description: regional state of Ethiopia
- Location: Ethiopia, East Africa, Africa
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Latitude
7.8333° or 7° 50' northLongitude
34.5° or 34° 30' eastPopulation
436,000Elevation
473 metres (1,552 feet)Open Location Code
6GVPRGM2+82GeoNames ID
444183Wikidata ID
Q207638Gambella Region Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Amharic: Gambēla Hizboch Kilil
- Amharic: ጋምቤላ ሕዝቦች ክልል
- Arabic: جامبيلا
- Armenian: Գամբելայի մարզ
- Bengali: গাম্বেলা প্রদেশ
- Breton: Gambela
- Bulgarian: Гамбела (регион)
- Bulgarian: Гамбела
- Catalan: Gambela
- Catalan: Gambella
- Catalan: Regió Gambela
- Cebuano: Gambela Region
- Chinese: 甘貝拉州
- Chinese: 甘贝拉州
- Croatian: Gambela
- Czech: Gambela
- Danish: Gambela Region
- Dutch: Gambela
- Dutch: Gambela Hizboch
- Egyptian Arabic: جامبلا
- English: Gambela
- English: Gambela Peoples' Region
- English: Gambela Region
- English: Gambela Regional State
- English: Gambella
- English: The State of Gambela Peoples
- Esperanto: Gambelo
- Finnish: Gambela
- French: Gambela
- French: Gambella
- Galician: Rexión de Gambela
- Georgian: გამბელის რეგიონი
- German: ET-GA
- German: Gambela
- German: Gambella
- Greek: Γκαμπέλα
- Gujarati: ગેમ્બેલા પ્રદેશ
- Hebrew: גמבלה
- Hindi: गाम्बेला प्रदेश
- Hungarian: Gambela
- Indonesian: Region Gambela
- Italian: Regione di Gambela
- Italian: regione di Gambella
- Japanese: ガンベラ州
- Kannada: ಗ್ಯಾಂಬೆಲ ಪ್ರದೇಶ
- Korean: 감벨라주
- Latvian: Gambelas kiliks
- Lithuanian: Gambelos regionas
- Malay: Gambela Region
- Marathi: जुगाला प्रदेश
- Norwegian: Gambela
- Norwegian Bokmål: Gambela
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Gambelaregionen
- Occitan (post 1500): Estat regional de Gambela
- Oromo: Naannoo Gaambeellaa
- Persian: منطقه گامبلا
- Polish: Gambela
- Polish: Gambiela
- Polish: Region Ludów Gambeli
- Portuguese: Gambela
- Romanian: Statul Gambela
- Russian: Гамбела
- Serbian: Region Gambela
- Serbian: Регион Гамбела
- Serbo-Croatian: Regija Gambela
- Sinhala: ගැම්බෙලා කලාපය
- Spanish: Gambela
- Spanish: Gambella
- Spanish: Región de Gambela
- Swahili: Gambela
- Swahili: Jimbo la Gambela
- Swahili: Mkoa wa Gambela
- Swedish: Broken/Gambela Hizboch
- Swedish: Gambela Hizboch
- Swedish: Gambella Hizboch
- Tamil: கம்பேலா பகுதி
- Tamil: கம்பேலா பிரதேசம்
- Telugu: గాంబెలా ప్రాంతం
- Thai: แกมเบลา
- Turkish: Gambela Bölgesi
- Ukrainian: Гамбела
- Urdu: گامبیلا ریجن
- Urdu: گامبیلا علاقہ
- Vietnamese: Gambela
- Western Armenian: Կամպելա (մարզ)
- Western Armenian: Կամպելա
- Western Panjabi: صوبہ گمبیلا
- Wu Chinese: 甘贝拉州
- Yue Chinese: 甘貝拉州
- Zulu: Gambela Region
- Gambēla Hizboch
- Regione di Gambella
Localities in the Area
- Tengi KebeleLocality, 5 km east
- AboboCounty, 6 km east
- Abobo TownLocality, 8 km northeast
- Chubo-Kirr Kebele/ቺቦ ኪርCounty, 9 km northeast
- Chubo-KirrLocality, 9 km northeast
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipdia page Gambella Region. Photo: Jempa 83, CC BY-SA 4.0.