Guéckédou
Guéckédou or Guékédou is a town in southern Guinea near the Sierra Leone and Liberian borders. It had a population of 79,140 but has grown in the 21st century due to refugees fleeing the Second Liberian Civil War and the Sierra Leone Civil War.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: City with 222,000 residents
- Description: town in southern Guinea
- Also known as: “Gueckedougou”, “Guéckédougou”, and “Guékédou”
Guéckédou
- Categories: big city and locality
- Location: Préfecture de Guéckédou, Nzérékoré Region, Guinea, West Africa, Africa
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Latitude
8.5616° or 8° 33′ 42″ northLongitude
-10.1328° or 10° 7′ 58″ westPopulation
222,000Elevation
430 metres (1,411 feet)Open location code
6CWFHV68+MVOpenStreetMap ID
node 1864868794OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
2420562Wikidata ID
Q740687
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Guéckédou” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جيكيدوغو”
- Arabic: “غكيدو”
- Arabic: “غوكيدو”
- Arabic: “غيكيدو”
- Armenian: “Գեկեդու”
- Asturian: “Guéckédougou”
- Basque: “Guéckédou”
- Bengali: “গোয়েককেদুগোয়া”
- Bulgarian: “Гекеду”
- Cebuano: “Gueckedou”
- Chinese: “盖凯杜”
- Chinese: “蓋凱杜”
- Danish: “Guéckédougou”
- Dutch: “Guéckédou”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جيكيدو”
- Esperanto: “Guéckédougou”
- Finnish: “Guéckédou”
- French: “Gueckedou”
- French: “Guéckédou”
- German: “Guéckédou”
- German: “Guéckédougou”
- Greek: “Γκουεκεντούγκου”
- Gujarati: “ગુએકેડૌગૌ”
- Hindi: “ग्वैकेडू”
- Hungarian: “Guéckédougou”
- Indonesian: “Guéckédougou”
- Irish: “Guéckédougou”
- Italian: “Guéckédou”
- Japanese: “ゲケドゥ”
- Kannada: “ಗುಕೆಡೌಗೌ”
- Korean: “기케두”
- Latvian: “Gekedugu”
- Lithuanian: “Gekedugu”
- Malay: “Guéckédou”
- Marathi: “गुएकदौगू”
- N'Ko: “ߜߞߋߘߎ߯”
- N'Ko: “ߜ߭ߞߋߘߎ߯”
- N'Ko: “ߜߞߍߘߎ߯”
- N'Ko: “ߜ߭ߞߍߘߎ߯”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Guéckédougou”
- Norwegian: “Guéckédougou”
- Polish: “Guéckédou”
- Polish: “Guéckédougou”
- Portuguese: “Gueckedou”
- Romanian: “Guéckédou”
- Russian: “Гекеду”
- Sinhala: “ගුඑස්කෙඩු”
- Spanish: “Gueckedou”
- Spanish: “Guéckédou”
- Swedish: “Guéckédou”
- Tamil: “குஏக்கேடொவுகோவு”
- Telugu: “గ్వైకెడూ”
- Thai: “กัวค์เคดูวกูว”
- Turkish: “Gueckedougou”
- Ukrainian: “Гекеду”
- Urdu: “گویکیدؤ”
- Venetian: “Guéckédou”
- Vietnamese: “Gueckedougou”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Marché de Gueckedou and Maison de jeune de Gueckedou.
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