Gambia Districts

Districts of Gambia

I've added the populations from the 1993 and 2003 censuses. I also dropped Dappo district, because I can't find much evidence that it exists. It may have been absorbed into another district. Banjul may be divided into the districts of Banjul Central, Banjul North, and Banjul South, but most sources show it as just one district.

Gambia is divided into a city and five divisions. Alternatively, it is divided into eight local government areas (LGAs), where each LGA is either a division or a part of one. The LGAs, and hence the divisions, are further subdivided into districts. These maps show the boundaries of the districts: Map Map . There are some minor discrepancies among various lists of districts. The following list is one way to break up the area of Gambia.

District	HASC	LGA	Pop-2003	Pop-1993
Banjul	`GM.BJ.BJ`	`L`	34,828	42,326
Central Baddibu	`GM.NB.CB`	`N`	14,998	15,060
Foni Bintang-Karenai	`GM.WE.FO`	`A`	15,994	11,397
Foni Bondali	`GM.WE.FB`	`A`	6,049	4,594
Foni Brefet	`GM.WE.FF`	`A`	11,411	8,529
Foni Jarrol	`GM.WE.FJ`	`A`	5,943	5,355
Foni Kansala	`GM.WE.FK`	`A`	12,247	7,748
Fulladu East	`GM.UR.FE`	`E`	98,454	84,327
Fulladu West	`GM.MC.FW`	`H`	71,669	57,995
Janjanbureh	`GM.MC.JJ`	`H`	3,466	2,813
Jarra Central	`GM.LR.JC`	`O`	6,494	6,084
Jarra East	`GM.LR.JE`	`O`	12,505	11,272
Jarra West	`GM.LR.JW`	`O`	24,416	20,673
Jokadu	`GM.NB.JO`	`N`	17,850	14,874
Kanifing	`GM.BJ.KF`	`G`	322,410	228,214
Kantora	`GM.UR.KT`	`E`	30,402	26,502
Kiang Central	`GM.LR.KI`	`O`	7,886	7,282
Kiang East	`GM.LR.KG`	`O`	6,534	6,356
Kiang West	`GM.LR.KW`	`O`	14,711	13,479
Kombo Central	`GM.WE.KC`	`A`	84,315	56,094
Kombo East	`GM.WE.KE`	`A`	28,146	21,028
Kombo North/Saint Mary	`GM.WE.KN`	`A`	166,351	80,478
Kombo South	`GM.WE.KS`	`A`	62,531	39,694
Lower Baddibu	`GM.NB.LB`	`N`	15,157	14,391
Lower Niumi	`GM.NB.LN`	`N`	44,491	35,147
Lower Saloum	`GM.MC.LS`	`R`	13,524	14,179
Niamina Dankunku	`GM.MC.ND`	`H`	6,000	6,089
Niamina East	`GM.MC.NE`	`H`	19,034	15,402
Niamina West	`GM.MC.NW`	`H`	6,630	5,948
Niani	`GM.MC.NI`	`R`	22,242	18,531
Nianija	`GM.MC.NJ`	`R`	8,205	6,439
Sami	`GM.MC.SM`	`R`	19,157	16,073
Sandu	`GM.UR.SN`	`E`	18,321	14,689
Upper Baddibu	`GM.NB.UB`	`N`	55,370	55,438
Upper Niumi	`GM.NB.UN`	`N`	24,940	21,552
Upper Saloum	`GM.MC.US`	`R`	15,970	12,552
Wuli	`GM.UR.WU`	`E`	35,856	29,541
37 districts			1,364,507	1,038,145
District: Banjul is a city council, and Kanifing is a municipal council. HASC: Hierarchical administrative subdivision codes. The middle two letters identify the division. For key, see the Divisions of Gambia page. LGA: Local Government Area containing the district. For key, see Divisions of Gambia. Pop-2003: 2003-04-15 census (provisional). Pop-1993: 1993-04-15 census.

Other names of subdivisions:

Foni Bintang-Karenai: Foni Bintang Karanai (variant)
Janjanbureh: Georgetown, MacCarthy Island (obsolete); Janjangburreh (variant)
Kanifing: K.M.C., K.U.D.C. (variant)
Kombo North/Saint Mary: Kombo, Kombo North, Kombo Saint Mary (variant); Kombo Sainte Marie (French)
Niumi: Nuimi (variant)

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