Bonthe is a port town located on a large island in Bonthe District of the southern Province of Sierra Leone. The city had a population of 7,210 in the 1985 census. In colonial times it used to be a major trading centre for piassava and other agricultural products. It is located at around 7°31′35″N, 12°30′18″W. The city lies on the eastern shore of Sherbro Island, on the Sherbro River estuary, and was once larger than Freetown, but lack of roads to the mainland meant that the population declined to 7,210 in the 1985 census. Bonthe is about 60 miles south-west of Bo and 80 miles south-east of Freetown. The inhabitants of the city belong mainly to the Sherbro ethnic group. Image File history File links Red_pog2. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Sierra_Leone. ... Sierra Leone is divided into four provinces - Eastern Province Northern Province Southern Province Western Area - including Freetown the capital Categories: Sierra Leone | Lists of subnational entities ... Eastern Province is one of the four provinces of Sierra Leone. ... Sierra Leone is divided into 12 districts, the secondary administative division of government (after provinces). ... // Bonthe District lies in the south of Sierra Leone. ... Timezone and TimeZone redirect here. ... -12 | -11 | -10 | -9:30 | -9 | -8 | -7 | -6 | -5 | -4 | -3:30 | -3 | -2:30 | -2 | -1 | -0:25 | UTC (0) | +0:20 | +0:30 | +1 | +2 | +3 | +3:30 | +4 | +4:30 | +4:51 | +5 | +5:30 | +5:40 | +5:45 | +6 | +6:30 | +7 | +7:20 | +7... For other uses, see Port (disambiguation). ... Ronda, Spain Main street in Bastrop, Texas, United States, a small town A town is a community of people ranging from a few hundred to several thousands, although it may be applied loosely even to huge metropolitan areas. ... // Bonthe District lies in the south of Sierra Leone. ... The Southern Province of Sri Lanka is a small geographic area consisting of the districts of Galle, Matara and Hambantota. ... Farming, ploughing rice paddy, in food, feed, fiber and other desired products by cultivation of certain plants and the raising of domesticated animals (livestock). ... There several usages of the word product, see: Product (mathematics) Product (business) Product (project management) Product (biology) Product (chemistry) This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Look up Mile in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Bo, Sierra Leone Satelite view of Bo (Landsat image viewed using NASA World Wind software) Bo, is the second largest city in Sierra Leone, with an estimated population of 472,919. ... Look up Mile in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... For other places with the same name, see Freetown (disambiguation). ... The Sherbro people are a native people of Sierra Leone, who speak the Sherbro language. ...

Media

The local radio station in Bonthe is Radio Bontico 96.4. The Sierra Leone Broadcasting Services (SLBS) TV, is on the air in the city. A radio station is an audio (sound) broadcasting service, traditionally broadcast through the air as radio waves (a form of electromagnetic radiation) from a transmitter to an antenna and a thus to a receiving device. ...

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