Tombo Island
Tombo Island is an island in the Atlantic Ocean at the tip of the Guinean Kaloum Peninsula, about 4 km east of the Loos Islands. The capital Conakry was built on the island, which is the site of the old city of Conakry; the new colonial city is located at Kaloum.Photo: NASA, Public domain.
- Type: Island
- Description: island in Guinea
- Also known as: “L’Île de Tumbo” and “Toumbo”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Stade de la mission and Ignace Deen Hospital.
Ignace Deen Hospital
Hospital
Photo: Aboubacarkhoraa, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Ignace Deen Hospital is a hospital in Conakry, Guinea built during the colonial era. The hospital is situated next to the National Museum. A report in 2011 described the conditions as squalid, with poor quality of care.
Sandervalia National Museum
Museum
The Sandervalia National Museum is the national museum of Guinea, situated in the capital, Conakry. Most of the rooms are empty, but it contains a limited display of traditional objects from different regions of Guinea, as well as objects and statues from the colonial era.
Tombo Island
- Category: landform
- Location: Conakry, Guinee Maritime, Guinea, West Africa, Africa
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Bengali to Swedish—“Tombo Island” goes by many names.
- Bengali: “টম্বো দ্বীপ”
- Catalan: “Illa de Tombo”
- Catalan: “Illa Tombo”
- Cebuano: “Tombo Island”
- Dutch: “Tombo Island”
- Finnish: “Tombo”
- French: “île de Tombo”
- French: “Île de Tombo”
- German: “Île Tombo”
- German: “Tombo Island”
- Greek: “Νήσος Τόμπο”
- Greek: “Τόμπο Νήσος”
- Greek: “Τόμπο”
- Japanese: “トンボ島”
- Spanish: “Isla Tombo”
- Spanish: “Isla Tumbo”
- Swedish: “Île de Tombo”
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