Juffureh
Juffureh is a small town in the Gambia on the North Bank of the Gambia River, most famous as the reputed origin of Alex Haley's ancestor Kunta Kinte, as described in Haley's novel Roots.
- Type: Village with 406 residents
- Description: place in North Bank Division, The Gambia
- Also known as: “Fort Jillifree”, “Jillifree”, “Jillifri”, “Jufureh”, “Jufuri”, and “Jurufeh”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Maurel Frères Building and Portuguese Chapel of Albreda.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Albreda.
Juffureh
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: North Bank Division, Gambia, West Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
13.3382° or 13° 20′ 18″ north
Longitude
-16.3815° or 16° 22′ 53″ west
Population
406
Elevation
15 metres (49 feet)
Open location code
7C558JQ9+7C
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Urdu—“Juffureh” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Juffureh”
- Cebuano: “Jufureh”
- Chinese: “珠富雷”
- Dutch: “Juffure”
- French: “Juffureh”
- Fulah: “Jufureh”
- German: “Juffure”
- Hebrew: “ג׳ופרה”
- Indonesian: “Jufureh”
- Irish: “Jufureh”
- Italian: “Jufureh”
- Japanese: “ジュフレ”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Juffure”
- Persian: “جعفره، گامبیا”
- Persian: “جعفره”
- Persian: “جوفوره”
- Polish: “Jufureh”
- Portuguese: “Jufureh”
- Romanian: “Jufureh”
- Spanish: “Jufureh”
- Swedish: “Juffure”
- Urdu: “جوفورے”
Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Bantang Killing and Pakkau-Nding.
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