Bo (Sierra Leone)
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Coordinates | 7 ° 58 ′ N , 11 ° 44 ′ W | |
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Country | Sierra Leone | |
province | Southern | |
District | Bo | |
ISO 3166-2 | SL | |
Chiefdom | Kakua | |
height | 15 m | |
Residents | 174,369 (2015) | |
politics | ||
mayor | Harold Tucker (2018) | |
Political party | SLPP |
Bo is a city in Sierra Leone . It has almost 175,000 inhabitants (as of 2015), making it the third largest city in the country. The majority of the inhabitants belong to the Mende ethnic group . Bo is the capital of the Southern Province and Bo District .
Bo is located in the Chiefdom Kakua in the Bo district of the same name in the Southern Province , between Freetown and Kenema . Bo has been the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Bo since 2011 .
City name
The name of the city goes back to a historical event. An elephant was killed near the city. The meat was later distributed to all the villagers in the area by the hunters. The words Bo-lor (in Mende ) were used and stand for "this is yours". The city council then named the place Bo. Nowadays, Bo-lor also stands for "this is Bo".
education
Njala University College has a campus in Bo in addition to the temporary main campus in Freetown (actually in the village of Njala). Similar to a German university of applied sciences , technical and practical subjects such as agriculture and technology are taught here.
Town twinning
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Inglewood , USA
sons and daughters of the town
- Abu-Bakarr Kargbo (* 1992), German soccer player from Sierra Leone
- Nabih Berri (* 1938), Speaker of the Parliament of Lebanon
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ 2015 Population and Housing Census SUMMARY OF FINAL RESULTS. Statistics Sierra Leone, December 2016.
- ^ Village Names. The Sierra Leone Web, date unknown accessed July 11, 2014
- ↑ Sister Citie ( Memento of the original dated February 6, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , February 9, 2008