Serekunda
Serekunda is a major city and the largest metropolitan area in The Gambia. It is situated close to the Atlantic coast, on the Gambia River, near the capital, Banjul.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: City with 380,000 residents
- Description: city in The Gambia
- Also known as: “Jeswang” and “Serrekunda”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Pipeline Mosque and École Française de Banjul.
Pipeline Mosque
Mosque
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The Pipeline Mosque is the main mosque of Serekunda, The Gambia.
École Française de Banjul
School
École Française de Banjul is a French international school in Bakau, The Gambia, in the Banjul metropolitan area. It serves levels preschool through première; classes use the National Centre for Distance Education beginning in sixième.
Embassy of the United States, Banjul
Government office
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Embassy of the United States, Banjul is a government office.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kanifing and Abuko.
Kanifing
Town
Kanifing is a municipality, local government area and district in the Gambia. It is part of the Greater Banjul Area, to the west of Banjul, and is governed by Kanifing Municipal Council.
Abuko
Town
Photo: Atamari, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Abuko is a town in the West Coast Division of the Gambia, five miles southwest of the capital Banjul. It is located in the district of Kombo North/Saint Mary to the north of Banjul International Airport and Abuko Nature Reserve.
Bakau
Suburb
Bakau is a town on the Atlantic coast of Gambia, west of Gambia's capital city of Banjul. It is known for its botanical gardens, its crocodile pool Bakau Kachikally and for the beaches at Cape Point.
Serekunda
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Banjul, Gambia, West Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
13.4388° or 13° 26′ 20″ northLongitude
-16.6748° or 16° 40′ 29″ westPopulation
380,000Elevation
15 metres (49 feet)United Nations Location Code
GM SKEOpen location code
7C55C8QG+G3OpenStreetMap ID
node 495132694OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yoruba—“Serekunda” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Serekunda”
- Afrikaans: “Serrekunda”
- Arabic: “سيريكوندا”
- Armenian: “Սերեկունդա”
- Azerbaijani: “Serekunda”
- Basque: “Serekunda”
- Bengali: “সেরেেকুন্ডা”
- Breton: “Serekunda”
- Breton: “Serrekunda”
- Bulgarian: “Серекунда”
- Catalan: “Serekunda”
- Catalan: “Serrakunda”
- Catalan: “Serrekunda”
- Cebuano: “Sere Kunda”
- Chinese: “塞雷昆達”
- Chinese: “萨拉昆达”
- Chinese: “薩拉昆達”
- Czech: “Serekunda”
- Czech: “Serrekunda”
- Danish: “Serekunda”
- Dutch: “Serekunda”
- Dutch: “Serrekunda”
- Egyptian Arabic: “سيريكوندا”
- Esperanto: “Serekunda”
- Estonian: “Serekunda”
- Estonian: “Serrekunda”
- Finnish: “Serekunda”
- Finnish: “Serrekunda”
- French: “Serekunda”
- French: “Serrekunda”
- Galician: “Serekunda”
- Georgian: “სერეკუნდა”
- German: “Sere Kunda”
- German: “Serekunda”
- German: “Serrekunda”
- Greek: “Σερεκούντα”
- Guarani: “Serekunda”
- Gujarati: “સેરેકુન્ડા”
- Hebrew: “סרקונדה”
- Hindi: “सेरीकुंदा”
- Hindi: “सेरीकुन्दा”
- Hungarian: “Serekunda”
- Indonesian: “Serekunda”
- Irish: “Serekunda”
- Italian: “Serekunda”
- Japanese: “セレクンダ”
- Kannada: “ಸೆರೆಕುಂಡಾ”
- Korean: “세레쿤다”
- Latvian: “Serekunda”
- Lithuanian: “Sere Kunda”
- Lithuanian: “Serekunda”
- Macedonian: “Серекунда”
- Malay: “Serekunda”
- Marathi: “सेरेकुंड”
- Mingrelian: “სერეკუნდა”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Serekunda”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Serekunda”
- Norwegian: “Serekunda”
- Persian: “سرکوندا”
- Polish: “Serekunda”
- Polish: “Serrekunda”
- Portuguese: “Serekunda”
- Romanian: “Serekunda”
- Russian: “Серекунда”
- Scots: “Serekunda”
- Sinhala: “සෙරෙකුන්ඩා”
- Slovak: “Serekunda”
- Slovak: “Serrekunda”
- Spanish: “Serekunda”
- Spanish: “Serrekunda”
- Swahili: “Serekunda”
- Swedish: “Serekunda”
- Swedish: “Serrekunda”
- Tamil: “செரெகுண்ட”
- Telugu: “సెరేకుందా”
- Thai: “เซเรกุนดา”
- Turkish: “Serekunda”
- Turkish: “Serrekunda”
- Ukrainian: “Серекунда”
- Urdu: “سیریکوندا”
- Vietnamese: “Serekunda”
- Yoruba: “Serrekunda”
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