Upper River Division
Upper River was one of the five Divisions of the Gambia. Its capital was Basse Santa Su. It was subsequently reorganised as the Basse Local Government Area, without any change in the area covered.
- Type: region of the Gambia with 188,000 residents
- Description: region of the Gambia
- Also known as: “Division Upper River”, “Divisione dell’Alto Fiume”, “GM-U”, “Upper River”, and “شعبة النهر العليا”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Chamoi.
Chamoi
Village
Chamoi is a town in the Gambia. Chamoi is situated 5 km south of Upper River Division.
Upper River Division
- Location: Gambia, West Africa, Africa
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Latitude
13.3667° or 13° 22′ north
Longitude
-14.1667° or 14° 10′ west
Population
188,000
Elevation
31 metres (102 feet)
Open location code
7C579R8M+M8
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Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Vietnamese—“Upper River Division” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ላይ ወንዝ”
- Arabic: “قسم أعلى النهر”
- Armenian: “Վերին գետ”
- Azerbaijani: “Yuxarı çay”
- Belarusian: “Верхняя Рака, акруга Гамбіі”
- Belarusian: “Верхняя рака”
- Belarusian: “Верхняя Рака”
- Bengali: “আপার রিভার ডিভিশন”
- Breton: “Upper River”
- Bulgarian: “Горноречен регион”
- Bulgarian: “Горноречна област”
- Catalan: “Upper River”
- Cebuano: “Upper River Division”
- Chinese: “上河区”
- Chinese: “上河區”
- Danish: “Upper River Division”
- Dutch: “Upper River”
- Esperanto: “Regiono Supra Rivero”
- Finnish: “Upper River Division”
- Finnish: “Upper River”
- French: “Division de Upper River”
- French: “Upper River”
- Galician: “Upper River”
- German: “Upper River Region”
- Greek: “Άνω Ποταμός”
- Greek: “Διαίρεση του Άπερ Ρίβερ”
- Gujarati: “અપર રિવર ડિવિજન”
- Hausa: “Babbar kogi”
- Hindi: “ऊपरी नदी मंडल”
- Indonesian: “Divisi Upper River”
- Indonesian: “Upper River Division”
- Italian: “divisione dell’Upper River”
- Italian: “Divisione dell’Upper River”
- Japanese: “ガンビア川上流地方”
- Javanese: “Kali Ngarep”
- Kannada: “ಮೇಲಿನ ನದಿ ವಿಭಾಗ”
- Kazakh: “Жоғарғы өзен”
- Kirghiz: “Үстүнкү река”
- Korean: “어퍼리버구”
- Latvian: “Augšteces daļa”
- Lithuanian: “Aukštutinės Upės padalinys”
- Macedonian: “Горна Река”
- Malay: “Upper River Division”
- Marathi: “अप्पर रिव्हर डिव्हिजन”
- N'Ko: “ߓߊ ߛߊ߲ߘߐߟߊ”
- Northern Frisian: “Basse”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Upper River”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Upper River Region”
- Norwegian: “Upper River”
- Oromo: “Lagga Gubbaa”
- Panjabi: “ਉਪਰਲੀ ਨਦੀ”
- Persian: “ناحیه بالای رودخانه”
- Polish: “Upper River Division”
- Portuguese: “Upper River”
- Pushto: “لوړ سیند”
- Romanian: “Diviziunea Upper River”
- Russian: “Верхняя Река”
- Scots: “Upper River Diveesion”
- Serbian: “Gornja Reka”
- Serbian: “Горња Река”
- Sinhala: “ඉහල ගංගා ප්රදේශය”
- Slovenian: “Upper River”
- Somali: “Webi Sare”
- Spanish: “División Río Superior”
- Spanish: “División Upper River”
- Swahili: “Mto wa Juu”
- Swedish: “Upper River Division”
- Swedish: “Upper River”
- Tajik: “Дарёи Боло”
- Tamil: “அப்பர் ரிவேர் டிவிசன்”
- Tatar: “Өске елга төбәге”
- Tatar: “Өске елга”
- Telugu: “అప్పర్ రివర్ డివిజన్”
- Thai: “ไฮแรน”
- Turkish: “Upper River Bölgesi”
- Turkish: “Yukarı Nehir Bölgesi”
- Ukrainian: “Верхня Ріка”
- Ukrainian: “Верхня Річка”
- Urdu: “اپر ریور ڈویژن”
- Uzbek: “Yuqori darya”
- Vietnamese: “Phân vùng Thượng nguồn Sông”
Localities in the Area
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