West Africa
Gambia
Lower River Division

Soma

Soma is a town in , lying south of the River Gambia. It is an important crossroads, where the main east–west road in the country crosses the Trans-Gambia Highway and it also sits between Northern and Southern Senegal.
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  • Type: Town with 11,100 residents
  • Description: town in The Gambia
  • Also known as: “Soma, Gambia”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Mansa Konko.

Village
or Mansakonko is a town in the Gambia, lying north of Soma. Formerly the home of an important chief. translates as "the hill of kings" in Mandinka.

Soma

Latitude
13.44464° or 13° 26′ 41″ north
Longitude
-15.53553° or 15° 32′ 8″ west
Population
11,100
Elevation
21 metres (69 feet)
Open location code
7C56CFV7+VQ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 3871387436
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2411905
Wiki­data ID
Q1318028
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In Other Languages

From Catalan to Turkish—“Soma” goes by many names.
  • Catalan: “Soma”
  • Cebuano: “Soma”
  • Chinese: “索馬”
  • Chinese: “索马”
  • Dutch: “Soma, the Gambia”
  • French: “Soma”
  • German: “Soma”
  • Irish: “Soma”
  • Italian: “Soma”
  • Japanese: “ソマ”
  • Korean: “소마”
  • Lithuanian: “Soma”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Soma i Gambia”
  • Persian: “سوما، گامبیا”
  • Persian: “سوما”
  • Polish: “Soma”
  • Romanian: “Soma, Gambia”
  • Romanian: “Soma”
  • Russian: “Сома”
  • Spanish: “Soma”
  • Swahili: “Soma, Gambia”
  • Swedish: “Soma”
  • Turkish: “Soma, Gambiya”
  • Turkish: “Soma”

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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 “Soma”. Photo: Atamari, CC BY-SA 3.0.