Kanilai
Kanilai is a village in southern Gambia, near the border with Senegal. The former president of The Gambia, Yahya Jammeh, was born in this village and expanded it after coming to power.Kanilai
- Type: Village with 836 residents
- Description: city
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: West Coast Region, Gambia, West Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
13.16994° or 13° 10′ 12″ northLongitude
-16.00973° or 16° 0′ 35″ westPopulation
836Elevation
36 metres (118 feet)Open location code
7C555X9R+X4OpenStreetMap ID
node 2561336349OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2413102Wikidata ID
Q992053
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Urdu—“Kanilai” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كينلا”
- Armenian: “Կանիլայի”
- Catalan: “Kanilai”
- Chinese: “卡尼拉伊”
- Dutch: “Kanilai”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كينلا”
- French: “Kanilai”
- Fulah: “Kanilai”
- German: “Kanilai”
- Hebrew: “קנילאי”
- Irish: “Kanilai”
- Italian: “Kanilai”
- Japanese: “カニライ”
- Persian: “کانیلای”
- Romanian: “Kanilai”
- Russian: “Канилаи”
- South Azerbaijani: “کانیلای”
- Ukrainian: “Канілаі”
- Urdu: “کانیلائی”
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