Janjanbureh

Janjanbureh or Jangjangbureh is a town, founded in 1823, on Janjanbureh Island, also known as MacCarthy Island, in the Gambia River in eastern Gambia. Until 1995, it was known as Georgetown and was the second largest town in the country.
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  • Town with about 4,000 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of around 10 metres (20 feet)
  • …was formerly known as “George Town”
  • Description: town in eastern Gambia
  • Also known as
    “Jangjangbureh”
    “McCarthy Island”
    “Old Fort George”

Places of Interest

Highlights include MacCarthy Island.
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Island
, officially named Janjanbureh Island…

Janjanbureh

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Latitude
13.5391° or 13° 32′ 21″ north
Longitude
-14.7612° or 14° 45′ 40″ west
Open location code
7C57G6QQ+JG
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1848292179
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2413437
Wiki­data ID
Q1002786

Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Asturian to Urdu—“Janjanbureh” goes by many names.
  • Asturian: “Janjanbureh”
  • Breton: “Janjanbureh”
  • Catalan: “Georgetown”
  • Catalan: “Jangjangbureh”
  • Catalan: “Janjanbureh”
  • Catalan: “Janjang-bureh”
  • Cebuano: “Georgetown (kapital sa rehiyon sa Gambia)”
  • Cebuano: “Georgetown”
  • Chinese: “詹江布尔”
  • Chinese: “詹詹布雷”
  • Danish: “Janjanbureh”
  • Dutch: “Janjanbureh”
  • Finnish: “Janjanbureh”
  • French: “Jan Jan Bureh”
  • Fulah: “Janjanbureh”
  • Galician: “Janjanbureh”
  • German: “Janjanbureh”
  • German: “Janjangbure”
  • Greek: “Τζορτζτάουν”
  • Hausa: “Janjanbureh”
  • Hungarian: “Janjanbureh”
  • Irish: “Janjanbureh”
  • Italian: “Janjanbureh”
  • Japanese: “ジャンジャンブレア”
  • Japanese: “ジャンジャンブレア行政区”
  • Korean: “잔잔부레”
  • Lithuanian: “Džandžanburė”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Janjanbureh”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Janjanbureh”
  • Norwegian: “Janjanbureh”
  • Persian: “جانجانبوره”
  • Polish: “Jangjang-bureh”
  • Polish: “Janjan-bureh”
  • Polish: “MacCarthy Town”
  • Portuguese: “Janjanbureh”
  • Romanian: “Janjanbureh”
  • Russian: “Джанджанбуре”
  • Russian: “Яньянбуре”
  • Swedish: “Georgetown”
  • Swedish: “Janjanbureh”
  • Tagalog: “Janjanbureh”
  • Turkish: “Janjanbureh”
  • Urdu: “جانجانبرہ، گیمبیا”
  • Urdu: “جنجنبرہ”

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