Janjanbureh (District)

Janjanbureh
Location of the district in the Central River Region
Location of the district in Gambia
Basic data
Parent region	Central River
Geographical location	13 ° 32 '  N , 14 ° 46'  W Coordinates: 13 ° 32 '10 "  N , 14 ° 45' 40"  W
surface	10 km²
population	3,998 (as of 2013)
Population density	400 inhabitants / km²

Janjanbureh (spelling variant: Jajanburay ) is one of 35 districts - the second highest level of administrative division - in the West African state of Gambia . It is one of ten districts in the Central River Region .

According to a calculation from 2013, there are around 3998 inhabitants, the result of the last published census from 2003 was 3466.

geography

The district includes the river island Janjanbureh with the place Janjanbureh .

population

According to a survey from 1993 (census at the time), the Mandinka represented the largest population group with a share of around five-tenths, followed by the Fula and the Jola. The distribution in detail: 49.7% Mandinka , 25.8% Fula , 4.6% Wolof , 5.5% Jola , 1.8% Serahule , 1.2% Serer , 0.5% Aku , 3% Manjago , 1.5% Bambara and 6.4% other races.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Janjanbureh (district) on bevoelkerungsstatistik.de (no longer available online, last accessed May 2013)
2. ^ Population by Ethnicity, by Settlement and Local Government Area. (Gambians Only) ( Memento from November 13, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) PDF file