Magburaka
Magburaka is a city in Sierra Leone. Magburaka is the former capital of the north of Sierra Leone. Makeni became the new capital during the war. Magburaka was a stop on the Bauya - Makeni branch of the now defunct Sierra Leone Railway.- Type: Town with 40,300 residents
- Description: place in Northern Province, Sierra Leone
- Also known as: “Magburuka”
Magburaka
- Categories: city and locality
- Location: Northern Province, Sierra Leone, West Africa, Africa
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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
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Urdu—“Magburaka” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ماجبوراكا”
- 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”
- Tagalog: “Magburaka”
- Urdu: “مگبوراکا”
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