Tongoma
Tongo, also known as Tongoma, is a diamond mining town and the second largest city in Kenema District, located in the Eastern Province of Sierra Leone.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Village
- Description: place in Eastern Province, Sierra Leone
- Also known as: “Tongo” and “Tongo, Sierra Leone”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Yengema and Koidu.
Yengema
Town
Photo: Brian Harrington Spier, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Yengema is a town in Kono District in the Eastern Province of Sierra Leone, lying approximately 6 miles west of Koidu Town, and about 142 miles east of Freetown. Yengema is situated 5 km south of Tongoma.
Koidu
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Koidu Town is the capital and largest city of the Kono District in the Eastern Province of Sierra Leone. Its population is 128,030 based on the 2015 census.
Tongoma
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Eastern Province, Sierra Leone, West Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
8.66008° or 8° 39′ 36″ northLongitude
-11.05907° or 11° 3′ 33″ westElevation
389 metres (1,276 feet)Open location code
6CWCMW6R+29OpenStreetMap ID
node 3017024924OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Swahili—“Tongoma” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “通戈”
- Dutch: “Tongo, Sierra Leone”
- Hawaiian: “Tongo (aikahoʻalana)”
- Polish: “Tongo”
- Swahili: “Tongo, Sierra Leone”
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