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.
- Town with 31,400 residents
- …lies at an elevation of 5 metres (16 feet)
- …has the IATA airport code BJL
- Description: capital of The Gambia
- Also known as“Bathurst”“City of Banjul”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Gambia National Museum and Arch 22.
Gambia National Museum
Museum
The National Museum of The Gambia is a Gambian cultural museum located in Banjul.
Edward Francis Small Teaching Hospital
Hospital
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Essau.
Essau
Village
Essau is a small town in north-western Gambia. Essau is situated 7 km northeast of Banjul.
Banjul
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Latitude
13.4548° or 13° 27′ 17″ north
Longitude
-16.5795° or 16° 34′ 46″ west
UN/LOCODE
GM BJL
Open location code
7C55FC3C+W6
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Banjul” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Banjul”
- Albanian: “Banjul”
- Albanian: “Banxhul”
- Amharic: “ባንጁል”
- Arabic: “بانجول”
- Aragonese: “Banjul”
- Armenian: “Բանջուլ”
- Asturian: “Banxul”
- Azerbaijani: “Bancul”
- Azerbaijani: “Banjul”
- Balinese: “Banjul”
- Basque: “Banjul”
- Belarusian: “Банджул”
- Belarusian: “Банжул”
- Bengali: “বাঞ্জুল”
- Bosnian: “Banjul”
- Breton: “Banjul”
- Bulgarian: “Банджул”
- Catalan: “Banjul”
- Cebuano: “Banjul (ulohang dakbayan sa Gambia)”
- Cebuano: “Banjul”
- Cebuano: “City of Banjul”
- Central Kurdish: “بانجول”
- Chechen: “Банжул”
- Chinese: “斑竹”
- Chinese: “班珠尔”
- Chinese: “班珠爾”
- Chinese: “班竹”
- Cornish: “Banjul”
- Croatian: “Banjul”
- Czech: “Banjul”
- Danish: “Banjul”
- Dimli (individual language): “Banjul”
- Dutch: “Banjul”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بانجول”
- Esperanto: “Banĝulo”
- Esperanto: “Banĵulo”
- Estonian: “Banjul”
- Fiji Hindi: “Banjul”
- Finnish: “Banjul”
- French: “Banjul”
- French: “Bathurst”
- Fulah: “Bannjulu”
- Galician: “Banjul”
- Georgian: “ბანჯული”
- German: “Banjul”
- German: “Bathurst (alter Name bis 1973)”
- Greek: “Μπανζούλ”
- Guarani: “Banjul”
- Gujarati: “બાન્જુલ”
- Haitian: “Banjoul”
- Hakka Chinese: “Banjul”
- Hausa: “Banjul”
- Hebrew: “בנג’ול”
- Hebrew: “בנגול”
- Hindi: “बांजुल”
- Hindi: “बाञ्जुल”
- Hungarian: “Banjul”
- Icelandic: “Banjul”
- Ido: “Banjul”
- Inari Sami: “Banjul”
- Indonesian: “Banjul”
- Interlingua: “Banjul”
- Interlingue: “Banjul”
- Irish: “Banjul”
- Italian: “Banjul”
- Japanese: “バサースト”
- Japanese: “バンジュール”
- Javanese: “Banjul”
- Kabiyè: “Panzuli”
- Kabyle: “Banjul”
- Kannada: “ಬಂಜುಲ್”
- Kazakh: “Банжул”
- Kinyarwanda: “Banjul”
- Kirghiz: “Банжул”
- Komering: “Banjul”
- Kongo: “Banjul”
- Korean: “반줄”
- Korean: “반쥴”
- Korean: “배서스트”
- Kotava: “Banjul”
- Kurdish: “Banjul”
- Latin: “Baniulum”
- Latin: “Bathurstopolis”
- Latvian: “Bandžula”
- Ligurian: “Banjul”
- Lingua Franca Nova: “Banjul”
- Lithuanian: “Bandžulis”
- Livvi: “Banžul”
- Lombard: “Banjul”
- Low German: “Banjul”
- Luxembourgish: “Banjul”
- Macedo-Romanian: “Banjul”
- Macedonian: “Банџул”
- Malay: “Banjul”
- Malayalam: “ബഞ്ജുൾ”
- Marathi: “बंजुल”
- Mazanderani: “بانجول”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Banjul”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Banjul”
- Minangkabau: “Banjul”
- Mingrelian: “ბანჯული”
- Moksha: “Банжул”
- Moroccan Arabic: “بانجول”
- N'Ko: “ߓߊ߲ߖߎߟ”
- N'Ko: “ߓߊ߲߬ߖߎߟ”
- Northern Frisian: “Banjul”
- Northern Sami: “Banjul”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Banjul”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Banjul”
- Norwegian: “Banjul”
- Novial: “Banjul”
- Nyanja: “Banjul”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Banjul”
- Ossetian: “Банджул”
- Panjabi: “ਬੰਜੁਲ”
- Papiamento: “Banjul”
- Persian: “بانجول”
- Piemontese: “Banjul”
- Polish: “Bandżul”
- Portuguese: “Banjul”
- Pushto: “بانجول”
- Quechua: “Banjul”
- Romanian: “Banjul”
- Romanian: “Orașul Banjul”
- Russian: “Банжул”
- Sakizaya: “Pancu”
- Sardinian: “Banjul”
- Scots: “Banjul”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Banjul”
- Serbian: “Банџул”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Banjul”
- Shona: “Banjul”
- Silesian: “Bandżul”
- Sindhi: “بنجول”
- Sinhala: “බන්ජල්”
- Sinhala: “බන්ජුල්”
- Skolt Sami: “Banjul”
- Slovak: “Banjul”
- Slovenian: “Banjul”
- Somali: “Banjul”
- Spanish: “Banjul”
- Swahili: “Banjul”
- Swedish: “Banjul”
- Tagalog: “Banjul”
- Tajik: “Банҷул”
- Tajik: “Бонҷул”
- Talysh: “Banjul”
- Tamil: “பஞ்சுல்”
- Tamil: “பஞ்சுள்”
- Telugu: “బంజుల్”
- Thai: “บันจูล”
- Tibetan: “བཱན་ཇཱུ་ལ།”
- Turkish: “Banjul”
- Udmurt: “Банжул”
- Ukrainian: “Банжул”
- Upper Sorbian: “Banjul”
- Upper Sorbian: “Bathurst”
- Urdu: “بانجول”
- Uzbek: “Banjul”
- Uzbek: “Baterst”
- Venetian: “Banjul”
- Veps: “Banžul”
- Vietnamese: “Banjul”
- Volapük: “Banjul”
- Võro: “Banjul”
- Waray (Philippines): “Banjul”
- Welsh: “Banjul”
- Western Armenian: “Պանճուլ”
- Western Frisian: “Banjul”
- Western Mari: “Банжул”
- Western Panjabi: “بانجول”
- Wolof: “Banjul”
- Wu Chinese: “班珠尔”
- Yiddish: “באנזשול”
- Yoruba: “Banjul”
- Yue Chinese: “班珠爾”
- Zulu: “i-Banjul”
- “Banyul”
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