Upper Baddibu
| Upper Baddibu | ||||
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 Location of the district in the North Bank Region |
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| Parent region | North Bank | |||
| Geographical location | 13 ° 33 ′ N , 15 ° 40 ′ W | |||
| population | 51,379 (as of 2013) | |||
Upper Baddibu 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 North Bank Region .
According to a calculation from 2013 about 51,379 inhabitants live there, the result of the last published census from 2003 was 55,370.
The name is derived from Baddibu , a former small empire.
Localities
The ten largest places are:
- Farafenni , 19,512
- No Kunda , 1791
- Katchang , 1630
- Ngeyen Sanjal, 1624
- Sara Kunda, 1232
- Pallen, 1183
- Bambali , 1175
- Illiassa , 987
- Dibba Kunda, 979
- Alkali Kunda, 724
population
According to a survey from 1993 (census at the time), the Mandinka represented the largest population group with a share of around four-tenths, followed by the Wolof and the Fula. The distribution in detail: 43% Mandinka , 15.9% Fula , 36.7% Wolof , 0.5% Jola , 0.4% Serahule , 0.5% Serer , 0.1% Aku , 1% Manjago , 1 , 3% Bambara and 0.6% other races.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Upper Baddibu on bevoelkerungsstatistik.de (no longer available online, last accessed May 2013)
- ^ Population by Ethnicity, by Settlement and Local Government Area. (Gambians Only) ( Memento from November 13, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) PDF file
