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Ghana Town

Ghana Town is a small coastal fishing town in western Gambia.

Ghana Town
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The place

Ghana Town is a small coastal fishing town in western Gambia. It is located in Kombo North/Saint Mary District in the Western Division. As of 2024, it had an estimated population of approximately 1,500.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Ghana Town

One place within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Salagi Forest Park

    Salagi Forest Park is a forest park in the Gambia. Established on January 1, 1954, it covers 262 hectares.

    6 km · forest park in Gambia · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

Getting to Ghana Town

Airports
Banjul (BJL), 13 km · Blaise Diagne (DSS), 147 km · Osvaldo Vieira (OXB), 205 km
  • Dakar → Ghana Town
    163 km · quickest by road, 6h 46m · $26–35
  • Bissau → Ghana Town
    211 km · quickest by road, 5h 23m · $23–31
  • Conakry → Ghana Town
    544 km · quickest by air, 7h 24m · $240–360
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Ghana Town

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 Ghana Town. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Santo AntãoCV

    9 ways of moving, 32 sources

    990 km
  2. 02
    Merzouga and Erg ChebbiMA

    8 ways of moving, 41 sources

    2,363 km
  3. 03
    ChefchaouenMA

    8 ways of moving, 30 sources

    2,683 km
  4. 04
    PríncipeST

    7 ways of moving, 13 sources

    2,965 km
  5. 05
    Morro de São Paulo and Ilha de TinharéBR

    9 ways of moving, 31 sources

    3,849 km

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

Around it

Next door to Ghana Town

Ghana Town is 11 km from Serekunda, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.