West Africa
Gambia
West Coast Division

Sukuta

Sukuta is a town located in the Western Division of . It had a population of 16,667 as of the 1993 census.
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  • Type: Town with 31,700 residents
  • Description: city in Gambia
  • Also known as: “Dembadu”, “Sabiji”, “Sukuta Sanchaba, Sukuta Sulay Jobe”, “Sukuto”, and “Sukutta”
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Bijilo Forest Park and Sir Dawda Kairaba Jawara International Conference Center.

Park
Photo: Atamari, CC BY-SA 3.0.
, often known as Monkey Park, is a forest park in , lying in the coastal zone about 11 km west of the .

Convention center
is a 14,000-square-metre conference center in , located in . The project began in 2017 and inaugurated in January 2020.

Forest
is a forest park in . Established on January 1, 1954, it covers 262 hectares. It is located in the west of the country, at an altitude of 26 meters. is situated 4 km south of Sukuta.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Serekunda and Brufut.

Photo: Ikiwaner, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a major city and the largest metropolitan area in . It is situated close to the Atlantic coast, on the Gambia River, near the capital, .

is a town located in the Western Division of . The town of is situated a couple of kilometres inland from the coastal road, but the name is applied to an area extending from around the town, out to the coast.

Suburb
Photo: Atamari, CC BY-SA 2.5.
is a resort town on the shore of the Atlantic Ocean that is located near Serrekunda, The Gambia. It is surrounded by the Bijilo Forest. The primary hotels are located on "The Strip" which is a short road leading to the beach and the hotels of Senegambia and the Kairaba.

Sukuta

Latitude
13.4148° or 13° 24′ 53″ north
Longitude
-16.7076° or 16° 42′ 27″ west
Population
31,700
Elevation
27 metres (89 feet)
Open location code
7C55C77R+WX
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2616106113
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2411880
Wiki­data ID
Q1013940
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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Swedish—“Sukuta” goes by many names.
  • Cebuano: “Sukuta”
  • Chinese: “苏库塔”
  • Chinese: “蘇庫塔”
  • Danish: “Sukuta”
  • Dutch: “Sukuta”
  • Esperanto: “Sukuta”
  • French: “Sukuta”
  • German: “Sukuta”
  • Hungarian: “Sukuta”
  • Irish: “Sukuta”
  • Italian: “Sukuta”
  • Japanese: “スクタ”
  • Persian: “سوکوتا، گامبیا”
  • Persian: “سوکوتا”
  • Polish: “Sukuta”
  • Romanian: “Sukuta”
  • Russian: “Сукута”
  • Swahili: “Sukuta”
  • Swedish: “Sukuta”

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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 “Sukuta”. Photo: Atamari, CC BY-SA 2.5.