Upper Niumi

Upper Niumi
Location of the district in the North Bank Region
Location of the district in Gambia
Basic data
Parent region	North Bank
Geographical location	13 ° 24 ′  N , 16 ° 20 ′  W Coordinates: 13 ° 24 ′ 0 ″  N , 16 ° 20 ′ 0 ″  W
population	26,786 (as of 2013)

Upper Niumi (spelling variant: Upper Nuimi ) 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 26,786 inhabitants live there, the result of the last published census from 2003 was 24,940.

history

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

In 1977 the Niumi District was split up, creating the current Upper and Lower Niumi Districts .

Localities

The ten largest places are:

• Barrel Chaho , 2635
• Albreda , 1726
• Tuba Kolong , 1547
• Chilla , 1316
• Pakau Njoku, 1210
• Medina Sedia, 1159
• Lamin , 1106
• Aljamdu , 1069
• Sika , 1069
• Jurunku , 985

See also : List of localities in Gambia

A smaller place is Juffure with 406 inhabitants, which became known in connection with Alex Haley's novel Roots .

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 Fulbe. The distribution in detail: 39.2% Mandinka , 18.4% Fula , 30.8% Wolof , 1.6% Jola , 0.6% Serahule , 4% Serer , 0% Aku , 3% Manjago , 1.5 % Bambara and 1% other ethnic groups.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Upper Niumi on bevoelkerungsstatistik.de (no longer available online, last accessed May 2013)
2. ^ Arnold Hughes, David Perfect: A political history of The Gambia, 1816-1994 , Univ. of Rochester Pr., 2006, ISBN 1-58046-230-8
3. ^ Population by Ethnicity, by Settlement and Local Government Area. (Gambians Only) ( Memento from November 13, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) PDF file