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Banjul

Banjul is the capital of 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.
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  • Type: City with 31,400 residents
  • Description: capital of The Gambia
  • Also known as: “Bathurst” and “City of Banjul”

Places of Interest

Highlights include The Gambia National Library and Gambia National Museum.

Library
Gambia National Library Service Authority is located in Banjul, The Gambia on Reg Pye Lane, the road leading to Tobacco Road. The library was originally operated by the British Council till 1946 and was renamed the National Library of The Gambia in 1971.

Museum
The National Museum of The Gambia is a Gambian cultural museum located in Banjul. It is home to historical documents and displays concerning the History of the Gambia.

Photo: Atamari, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a commemorative arch on the road into Banjul in . It was built in 1996 to mark the military coup d'état of July 22, 1994, through which Yahya Jammeh and his Armed Forces Provisional Ruling Council overthrew the democratically elected Gambian government of President Dawda Jawara.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Essau.

Village
is a small town in north-western . It is located in District in the . As of 2009, it has an estimated population of 6,670.

Banjul

Latitude
13.4548° or 13° 27′ 17″ north
Longitude
-16.5795° or 16° 34′ 46″ west
Population
31,400
Elevation
5 metres (16 feet)
IATA airport code
BJL
United Nations Location Code
GM BJL
Open location code
7C55FC3C+W6
Open­Street­Map ID
node 249167555
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2413876
Wiki­data ID
Q3726
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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: “Banjul”
  • 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: “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”
  • 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”
  • “Banjul”
  • “Banyul”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Banjul”. Photo: Atamari, CC BY-SA 3.0.