West Africa
Sierra Leone
Northern Province

Kamakwie

Kamakwie is a town in the of . Since 2017 Kamakwie is the Capital of the Karene District in Chiefdom Sella Limba. The population of the town as estimated in late 2010, is 8,098.
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  • Type: Town with 8,100 residents
  • Description: place in North West Province, Sierra Leone
  • Also known as: “Makwi” and “Makwie”

Kamakwie

Latitude
9.4963° or 9° 29′ 47″ north
Longitude
-12.24125° or 12° 14′ 29″ west
Population
8,100
Elevation
116 metres (381 feet)
Open location code
6CX9FQW5+GF
Open­Street­Map ID
node 320060481
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2408154
Wiki­data ID
Q6355344
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In Other Languages

From Catalan to Swahili—“Kamakwie” goes by many names.
  • Catalan: “Kamakwie”
  • Cebuano: “Kamakwie”
  • Dutch: “Kamakwie”
  • Finnish: “Kamakwie”
  • French: “Kamakwie”
  • German: “Kamakwie”
  • Italian: “Kamakwie”
  • Polish: “Kamakwie”
  • Portuguese: “Kamakwie”
  • Russian: “Камакви”
  • Swahili: “Kamakwie”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Kamakwie”. Photo: Lars Bessel, CC BY-SA 4.0.