Gombe Explained

Gombe may refer to:

Places

• Gombe State, Nigeria
  • Gombe, Nigeria, the capital of Gombe State, Nigeria
• Gombe, Angola
• Gombe, Butambala, the capital of Butambala District in Central Uganda
• Gombe, Wakiso, a town in Wakiso District, Central Uganda
• Gombe, Kinshasa, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
• Gömbe, Kaş, a community in the Turkish Riviera

People

• Christian Gombe (born 1962), Central African Republic basketball player
• Kabiru Gombe, Nigerian Islamic teacher under izalah
• Samson Gombe (1938–1989), Kenyan scientist and professor

Other uses

• Cyclone Gombe, a 2022 tropical cyclone in Africa
• Gombe (dish), a traditional Norwegian dish
• Gombey, a dance from Bermuda (sometimes spelt Gombe)

See also

• Gombe Stream National Park, in Tanzania, where Jane Goodall pioneered her behavioral research on the chimpanzee