West Africa
Sierra Leone
Southern Province

Bo

Bo is the second city of and the main city of the Southern region. Bo is one of the only cities in Sierra Leone to be untouched by the war, owing to a citizen militia which kept the rebel soldiers out for the entire 10 years.
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  • Type: City with 174,000 residents
  • Description: city of Sierra Leone
  • Also known as: “Bo, Sierra Leone”

Bo

Latitude
7.9621° or 7° 57′ 43″ north
Longitude
-11.7367° or 11° 44′ 12″ west
Population
174,000
Elevation
104 metres (341 feet)
IATA airport code
KBS
United Nations Location Code
SL KBS
Open location code
6CVCX767+R8
Open­Street­Map ID
node 314001434
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2410048
Wiki­data ID
Q844878
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Western Armenian—“Bo” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Bo”
  • Arabic: “بو”
  • Armenian: “Բո (քաղաք)”
  • Armenian: “Բո”
  • Asturian: “Bo”
  • Bengali: “বো”
  • Bulgarian: “Бо”
  • Catalan: “Bo (Sierra Leone)”
  • Catalan: “Bo”
  • Cebuano: “Bo (kapital sa lalawigan)”
  • Cebuano: “Bo”
  • Chinese: “博城”
  • Chinese: “波市”
  • Croatian: “Bo (grad)”
  • Croatian: “Bo”
  • Czech: “Bo (město)”
  • Danish: “Bo (Sierra Leone)”
  • Danish: “Bo”
  • Dutch: “Bo (stad)”
  • Dutch: “Bo”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بو”
  • Esperanto: “Bo (urbo)”
  • Esperanto: “Bo”
  • Finnish: “Bo (Sierra Leone)”
  • Finnish: “Bo”
  • French: “Bo (Sierra Leone)”
  • French: “Bo”
  • German: “Bo (Sierra Leone)”
  • German: “Bo”
  • Greek: “Μπο”
  • Gujarati: “બો”
  • Hausa: “Garin Bo”
  • Hebrew: “בו”
  • Hindi: “बो”
  • Indonesian: “Bo, Sierra Leone”
  • Indonesian: “Bo”
  • Italian: “Bo (Sierra Leone)”
  • Italian: “Bo”
  • Japanese: “ボー”
  • Kannada: “ಬೊ”
  • Korean: “보”
  • Latvian: “Bo”
  • Lithuanian: “Bo (Siera Leonė)”
  • Lithuanian: “Bo”
  • Malay: “Bo”
  • Marathi: “बो”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Bo (Sierra Leone)”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Bo”
  • Norwegian: “Bo (Sierra Leone)”
  • Polish: “Bo (Sierra Leone)”
  • Polish: “Bo”
  • Portuguese: “Bo (Serra Leoa)”
  • Portuguese: “Bo”
  • Romanian: “Bo”
  • Russian: “Бо”
  • Sinhala: “බෝ”
  • Spanish: “Bo (Sierra Leona)”
  • Spanish: “Bo”
  • Swahili: “Bo, Sierra Leone”
  • Swedish: “Bo, Sierra Leone”
  • Tamil: “போ”
  • Telugu: “బో”
  • Thai: “โบ”
  • Turkish: “Bo, Sierra Leone”
  • Turkish: “Bo”
  • Ukrainian: “Бо”
  • Urdu: “بو، سیرالیون”
  • Vietnamese: “Bo”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Bo, Sierra Leone”
  • Western Armenian: “Պօ”

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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 “Bo”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC0.