Kenema

Kenema is a city in the of and the administrative capital of . With a population of 255,110 recorded in the 2021 mid-term Population and Housing Census, it is the second most populous city in Sierra Leone, after the national capital .
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Kenema Airport.

Aerodrome
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is an airport located in Kenema, the third largest of . The airport is mostly used for domestic aircraft to the city. It is the largest and most important airport in as well as one of the busiest airports in the country.

Kenema

Latitude
7.886° or 7° 53′ 10″ north
Longitude
-11.1864° or 11° 11′ 11″ west
Population
188,000
Elevation
182 metres (597 feet)
IATA airport code
KEN
United Nations Location Code
SL KEN
Open location code
6CVCVRP7+9C
Open­Street­Map ID
node 314005602
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2407790
Wiki­data ID
Q634698
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Satellite Map

Discover Kenema from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Waray—“Kenema” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Kenema”
  • Amharic: “ከነማ”
  • Arabic: “كينيما”
  • Armenian: “Քենեմա”
  • Asturian: “Kenema”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kenema”
  • Bengali: “কেনেমা”
  • Bulgarian: “Кенема”
  • Catalan: “Kenema”
  • Cebuano: “Kenema”
  • Chinese: “凯内马”
  • Croatian: “Kenema”
  • Czech: “Kenema”
  • Danish: “Kenema”
  • Dutch: “Kenema”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كينيما”
  • Esperanto: “Kenema”
  • Finnish: “Kenema”
  • French: “Kenema”
  • German: “Kenema”
  • Greek: “Κενέμα”
  • Gujarati: “કેનેમા”
  • Hausa: “Kenema”
  • Hebrew: “קנמה”
  • Hindi: “केनेमा”
  • Indonesian: “Kenema”
  • Irish: “Kenema”
  • Italian: “Kenema”
  • Japanese: “ケネマ”
  • Javanese: “Kenema”
  • Kannada: “ಕೆನೆಮಾ”
  • Kazakh: “Кенема”
  • Kirghiz: “Кенема”
  • Korean: “케네마”
  • Latvian: “Kenema”
  • Lithuanian: “Kenema”
  • Malay: “Kenema”
  • Marathi: “केनोमा”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kenema”
  • Norwegian: “Kenema”
  • Oromo: “Kenema”
  • Panjabi: “ਕੇਨੇਮਾ”
  • Persian: “کنما”
  • Polish: “Kenema”
  • Portuguese: “Kenema”
  • Pushto: “کینیما”
  • Romanian: “Kenema”
  • Russian: “Кенема”
  • Russian: “Кенеме”
  • Silesian: “Kenema”
  • Sinhala: “කෙනෙමා”
  • Slovak: “Kenema”
  • Slovenian: “Kenema”
  • Somali: “Kenema”
  • Spanish: “Kenema”
  • Swahili: “Kenema”
  • Swedish: “Kenema”
  • Tajik: “Кенема”
  • Tamil: “கெனேமா”
  • Tatar: “Кенема”
  • Telugu: “కెనెమా”
  • Thai: “เคเนมา”
  • Turkish: “Kenema, Sierra Leone”
  • Turkish: “Kenema”
  • Ukrainian: “Кенема”
  • Urdu: “کینیما”
  • Uzbek: “Kenema”
  • Venetian: “Kenema”
  • Vietnamese: “Kenema”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Kenema”

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