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Abuko

Abuko is a town in the West Coast Division of the Gambia, five miles southwest of the capital Banjul.

Abuko
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The place

Abuko is a town in the West Coast Division of the Gambia, five miles southwest of the capital Banjul.

It is located in the district of Kombo North/Saint Mary to the north of Banjul International Airport and Abuko Nature Reserve.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Abuko

Airports
Banjul (BJL), 7 km · Blaise Diagne (DSS), 148 km · Osvaldo Vieira (OXB), 200 km
  • Dakar → Abuko
    167 km · quickest by road, 6h 34m · $25–34
  • Bissau → Abuko
    206 km · quickest by road, 5h 11m · $22–31
  • Conakry → Abuko
    539 km · quickest by air, 7h 8m · $220–340
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Abuko

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Abuko. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundMinibuses and trucks are colourful, but extremely uncomfortable.

From Wikivoyage: Banjul, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
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  2. 02
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    8 ways of moving, 41 sources

    2,354 km
  3. 03
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  4. 04
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    7 ways of moving, 13 sources

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  5. 05
    Morro de São Paulo and Ilha de TinharéBR

    9 ways of moving, 31 sources

    3,858 km

If you know how people move in Abuko – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Abuko

Abuko is 4 km from Serekunda, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.