Essau
Essau is a small town in north-western Gambia. It is located in Lower Niumi District in the North Bank Division. As of 2009, it has an estimated population of 6,670.Places of Interest
Highlights include Fort Bullen.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Banjul.
Banjul
Banjul is the capital of Gambia and its fourth largest city. The city is on an island, which has constrained its size - its population is only 31,000. Consequently much of the population now is based on the mainland between the airport and the city.
Essau
- Type: Village with 6,640 residents
- Description: human settlement
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: North Bank Division, Gambia, West Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
13.48577° or 13° 29′ 9″ north
Longitude
-16.5262° or 16° 31′ 34″ west
Population
6,640
Elevation
12 metres (39 feet)
Open location code
7C55FFPF+8G
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Bulgarian to Swedish—“Essau” goes by many names.
- Bulgarian: “Есау”
- Cebuano: “Essau”
- Chinese: “埃紹”
- Dutch: “Essau”
- German: “Essau”
- Irish: “Essau”
- Persian: “عیسو، گامبیا”
- Persian: “عیسو”
- Polish: “Essau”
- Russian: “Есау”
- Swedish: “Essau”
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