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Banjul

American  
[bahn-jool] / ˈbɑn dʒul /

noun

  1. a port in and the capital of The Gambia.


Banjul British  
/ bænˈdʒuːl /

noun

  1. Former name (until 1973): Bathurst.  the capital of The Gambia, a port at the mouth of the Gambia River. Pop: 392 000 (2005 est)

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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A chartered flight Wednesday carrying the “Scorpions” returned to Gambia’s capital Banjul after being airborne for nine minutes when the crew realized there were technical problems, Gambia’s Football Federation said in a statement on Facebook.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 11, 2024

The discovery was made on board a Tui flight that had travelled from The Gambia's capital Banjul on 7 December.

From BBC • Jun. 2, 2023

That would have helped Adama Komma, a 27-year-old mother of five who lives in a compound with six other families in the crowded town of Bundung, about 10 miles west of Gambia’s capital Banjul.

From Reuters • Oct. 24, 2022

The highest rainfall measured in that period was 10.87 inches at Banjul airport, beating a 1998 record of almost 7 inches, it said.

From Washington Post • Aug. 3, 2022

By October, traffic at the Port of Banjul had fallen precipitously as importers nervously scaled back their activities with the commencement of the anticorruption drive by the new regime.

From The 1995 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

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