Jarra East

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Jarra East
Jarra East Division
Location of the district in the Lower River Region
Jarra East (Gambia)
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Location of the district in Gambia
Basic data
Parent region Lower River
Geographical location 13 ° 25 ′  N , 15 ° 15 ′  W Coordinates: 13 ° 25 ′ 0 ″  N , 15 ° 15 ′ 0 ″  W
population 13,010 (as of 2013)

Jarra East is one of 35 districts - the second highest level of administrative division - in the West African state of Gambia . It is one of six districts in the Lower River Region .

According to a calculation from 2013 about 13,010 inhabitants live there, the result of the last published census from 2003 was 12,505.

The name is derived from Jarra , a former small empire.

Localities

The ten largest places are:

population

According to a survey from 1993 ( census at that time ), the Mandinka represented the largest population group with a share of around seven tenths, followed by the Fula and the Serahule. The distribution in detail: 66.5% Mandinka , 27.5% Fula , 1% Wolof , 0.4% Jola , 2.8% Serahule , 0.1% Serer , 0.1% Aku , 0.1% Manjago , 0.2% Bambara and 1.3% other races.

Individual evidence

  1. Jarra East 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