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.
- Type: City with 380,000 residents
- Description: city in The Gambia
- Also known as: “Jeswang”, “Serrakunda”, “Serrekunda”, “सेरीकुंदा”, and “塞雷昆達”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Pipeline Mosque and École Française de Banjul.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kanifing and Abuko.
Bakau
Suburb
Bakau is a town on the Atlantic coast of Gambia, west of Gambia's capital city of Banjul.
Serekunda
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Banjul, Gambia, West Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
13.4388° or 13° 26′ 20″ north
Longitude
-16.6748° or 16° 40′ 29″ west
Population
380,000
Elevation
15 metres (49 feet)
UN/LOCODE
GM SKE
Open location code
7C55C8QG+G3
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yoruba—“Serekunda” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Serrekunda”
- Arabic: “سيريكوندا”
- Armenian: “Սերեկունդա”
- Asturian: “Serekunda”
- Azerbaijani: “Serekunda”
- Basque: “Serekunda”
- Bengali: “সেরেেকুন্ডা”
- Breton: “Serekunda”
- Bulgarian: “Серекунда”
- Catalan: “Serekunda”
- Cebuano: “Sere Kunda”
- Chinese: “萨拉昆达”
- Chinese: “薩拉昆達”
- Czech: “Serekunda”
- Danish: “Serekunda”
- Dutch: “Serekunda”
- Egyptian Arabic: “سيريكوندا”
- Esperanto: “Serekunda”
- Estonian: “Serekunda”
- Finnish: “Serekunda”
- Finnish: “Serrekunda”
- French: “Serrekunda”
- Galician: “Serekunda”
- Georgian: “სერეკუნდა”
- German: “Serekunda”
- Greek: “Σερεκούντα”
- Guarani: “Serekunda”
- Gujarati: “સેરેકુન્ડા”
- Hebrew: “סרקונדה”
- Hindi: “सेरीकुन्दा”
- Hungarian: “Serekunda”
- Indonesian: “Serekunda”
- Irish: “Serekunda”
- Italian: “Serekunda”
- Japanese: “セレクンダ”
- Kannada: “ಸೆರೆಕುಂಡಾ”
- Korean: “세레쿤다”
- Latvian: “Serekunda”
- Lithuanian: “Serekunda”
- Macedonian: “Серекунда”
- Malay: “Serekunda”
- Marathi: “सेरेकुंड”
- Mingrelian: “სერეკუნდა”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Serekunda”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Serekunda”
- Norwegian: “Serekunda”
- Persian: “سرکوندا”
- Polish: “Serrekunda”
- Portuguese: “Serekunda”
- Romanian: “Serekunda”
- Russian: “Серекунда”
- Scots: “Serekunda”
- Sinhala: “සෙරෙකුන්ඩා”
- Slovak: “Serekunda”
- Spanish: “Serekunda”
- Swahili: “Serekunda”
- Swedish: “Serrekunda”
- Tamil: “செரெகுண்ட”
- Telugu: “సెరేకుందా”
- Thai: “เซเรกุนดา”
- Tumbuka: “Serekunda”
- Turkish: “Serekunda”
- Turkish: “Serrekunda”
- Tyap: “Serekunda”
- Ukrainian: “Серекунда”
- Urdu: “سیریکوندا”
- Vietnamese: “Serekunda”
- Yoruba: “Serrekunda”
Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Bartez and New Jeshwang.
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Worth a closer look: Kunta Kinteh Island and Brikama.
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