Geography Atlas

Where Everything Happened
Sign In
Text size
100%
Theme

Switch Atlas

City

Goma

Middle Africa

Goma is the capital and largest city of North Kivu province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, on the northern shore of Lake Kivu in the Albertine Rift. It lies only 13 to 18 kilometres south of the active volcano Mount Nyiragongo and had a 2024 population of about 782,000, plus roughly 500,000 additional displaced persons; the city has been repeatedly shaped by volcanic activity and by the wars that followed the 1994 Rwandan genocide, and as of January 2025 the M23 rebel group controls the city after a fresh offensive.

Facts
Population
781,875 1
Area (sq km)
75.2 1
Founding Year
1906 2
Founding Year
1906 2
Population Estimate Year
2024 1
Latitude
1.6641 degrees south 1
Longitude
29.22286 degrees east 1
Elevation Band
Mountain 3
Coastal
No 4
Climate Zone
Temperate 5
Time Zone
UTC+02:00 3
Sources
1. Goma (Wikidata)
  • P1082 (population)
    population 781,875 (2024)
  • P625 (coordinate location)
    latitude -1.6641, longitude 29.22286
  • P2046 (area)
    area 75.2 sq km
  • P1082 (population), P585 (point in time)
    population 781875 (2024)
View the Source
2. Goma (Wikipedia)
  • History
    In 1906, officers of the Congo Free State established Goma post opposite Gisenyi as a military outpost
  • In Group: Cities of Middle Africa (World), Wikipedia; part-of country and UN M49 subregion
View the Source
3. GeoNames: Goma - GeoNames
GeoNames
  • cities500 record 216281
    -1.67409 29.22845 P PPLA CD 11 01 78200 1518 Africa/Lubumbashi
  • Place record, elevation
    Elevation ca. 1518 m
View the Source
4. CIA World Factbook (factbook.json archive): The World Factbook archive: Democratic Republic of the Congo
CIA World Factbook (factbook.json archive)Geography note and Coastline
Quote, Geography note and Coastline
the narrow strip of land that controls the lower Congo River is the DRC's only outlet to the South Atlantic Ocean
View the Source
5. Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna): World Map of the Koeppen-Geiger Climate Classification, present climate data
Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna)Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell -1.75, 29.25
Quote, Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell -1.75, 29.25
-1.75 29.25 Cfb
View the Source
Wikidata: Goma
Wikidata Q204381, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)View the Source
Comments (0)
No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.
Reader Challenges (0)
No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.