Bansang
Bansang is a town in the Central River Division of the Gambia, with a population of 8,843. Although the official government center of the Division is located in Janjanbureh downstream, Bansang has better access to the more affluent coastal region of the country, and is sometimes considered the unofficial "upcountry" economic capital.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Atamari, CC BY-SA 2.5.
- Type: Town with 9,530 residents
- Description: city in Gambia
- Also known as: “Bansang Tenda” and “Barsangsang”
Bansang
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Central River Division, Gambia, West Africa, Africa
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Latitude
13.43577° or 13° 26′ 9″ northLongitude
-14.65879° or 14° 39′ 32″ westPopulation
9,530Elevation
9 metres (30 feet)United Nations Location Code
GM BANOpen location code
7C57C8PR+8FOpenStreetMap ID
node 1224809649OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Turkish—“Bansang” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بانسانغ”
- Bulgarian: “Бансанг”
- Catalan: “Bansang”
- Cebuano: “Bansang”
- Chinese: “班桑”
- Dutch: “Bansang”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بانسانج”
- Esperanto: “Bansang”
- French: “Bansang”
- Fulah: “Bansang”
- German: “Bansang”
- Irish: “Bansang”
- Italian: “Bansang”
- Korean: “반상 (도시)”
- Korean: “반상”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bansang”
- Persian: “بانسانگ”
- Polish: “Bansang”
- Portuguese: “Bansang”
- Romanian: “Bansang”
- Swedish: “Bansang”
- Turkish: “Bansang”
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