Kaloum
Kaloum is an urban sub-prefecture in the Conakry Region of Guinea and one of five in the capital Conakry. Kaloum includes the city centre of Conakry. As of 2014 it had a population of 62,675 people.Photo: Malamine Diaouné, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Ignace Deen Hospital and Sandervalia National Museum.
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.
St. Mary’s Cathedral, Conakry
Church
Photo: Ourysow92, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Cathédrale Sainte-Marie is an important place of Christian worship in Conakry, Guinea. The yellow and red building is of considerable architectural interest.
Kaloum
- Type: Locality
- Description: sub-prefecture in Guinea
- Categories: commune and subprefecture of Guinea
- Location: Conakry, Guinee Maritime, Guinea, West Africa, Africa
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Swedish—“Kaloum” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كالوم”
- Bulgarian: “Калоум”
- Catalan: “Kaloum”
- Cebuano: “Kaloum”
- Chinese: “卡卢姆”
- Chinese: “卡卢姆区”
- Croatian: “Kaloum”
- Czech: “Kaloum”
- Dutch: “Kaloum”
- French: “Kaloum”
- German: “Kaloum”
- Italian: “Kaloum”
- Japanese: “カロウム”
- Korean: “칼룸”
- Malay: “Kaloum”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kaloum”
- Polish: “Kaloum”
- Portuguese: “Kaloum”
- Slovak: “Kaloum”
- Slovenian: “Kaloum”
- Spanish: “Kaloum”
- Swedish: “Kaloum”
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