Banjul is the capital of The Gambia with a population of 34,828 as of 2003. It is located on St. Mary's Island where the Gambia River enters the Atlantic Ocean.
History
In 1816, the British founded Banjul as a trading post and base for suppressing the slave trade. It was first named Bathurst after Henry Bathurst, the secretary of the British Colonial Office, but was changed to Banjul in 1973.
Economy
Banjul is the main urban area of The Gambia and holds the country's economic and administrative center. As the fourth most densely populated country in Africa, The Gambia has more than one urban area. Peanut processing is the country's principle industry, but bee's wax, palm wood, palm oil, and skins and hides are also shipped from its port.
The Gambia – one of the few countries whose official name starts with 'the' – is a long, thin and very small country that follows the bends of the River Gambia due east from the river's mouth on the Atlantic coast, and apart from this coastal region, the country is entirely surrounded by Senegal.
From end to end the Gambia is about 300km long but it only averages 35km in width, but even more bizarre is the fact that they speak English here, as it used to be a British colony.
The Gambia is a small country but Banjul is tiny, especially by African standards, with only 50,000 inhabitants (the whole county is home to around 1.2 million people).
Banjul is a seaport on St. Mary's Island, located at the mouth of the River Gambia, 26 nautical miles away from the Atlantic Ocean.
The port of BanjulBanjul Port is the gateway to West Africa with modern facilities, professional staff, competitive prices and prides itself as one of the safest and most efficient ports within the African region.
Gambia and Senegal have, at the end of the Third Meeting of the Joint Consultative Committee on Senegalo-Gambian Cooperation, consolidated their cooperation pact covering a wide range of issues, such as the Road Transport Agreement, defence and security, economic and trade affairs, and judicial matters.
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