West Africa
Sierra Leone
Northern Province

Magburaka

Magburaka is a city in . Magburaka is the former capital of the north of Sierra Leone. became the new capital during the war. Magburaka was a stop on the Bauya - Makeni branch of the now defunct Sierra Leone Railway.
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  • Type: Town with 40,300 residents
  • Description: place in Northern Province, Sierra Leone
  • Also known as: “Magburuka”

Magburaka

Latitude
8.7228° or 8° 43′ 22″ north
Longitude
-11.9492° or 11° 56′ 57″ west
Population
40,300
Elevation
99 metres (325 feet)
Open location code
6CWCP3F2+48
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1978562828
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2406576
Wiki­data ID
Q1883766
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In Other Languages

From Asturian to Swahili—“Magburaka” goes by many names.
  • Asturian: “Magburaka”
  • Bengali: “মাগবুরাকা”
  • Bulgarian: “Магбурака”
  • Cebuano: “Magburaka”
  • Chinese: “馬布拉卡”
  • Dutch: “Magburaka”
  • Finnish: “Magburaka”
  • French: “Magburaka”
  • German: “Magburaka”
  • Italian: “Magburaka”
  • Japanese: “マグブラカ”
  • Lithuanian: “Magburaka”
  • Polish: “Magburaka”
  • Portuguese: “Magburaka”
  • Russian: “Магбурака”
  • Swahili: “Magburaka”

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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 “Magburaka”. Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.