Bo City is Sierra Leone's second-largest city and the commercial, educational, and cultural capital of the Southern Province.
Key figures for Bo City and Bo District.
Bo City sits within Kakua Chiefdom, at the centre of a district of fifteen chiefdoms in Sierra Leone's Southern Province.
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Bo is one of Sierra Leone's most ethnically diverse cities — a Mende heartland that has long welcomed communities from every region of the country.
Bars show the estimated range for each group; the solid section marks the lower bound.
Athens of West Africa — schools, colleges, universities.
Agriculture, trade, services and SMEs.
Hospital, clinics and public health programmes.
Road corridors across the south and beyond.
Grid, backup power and solar opportunity.
Food, music, football, markets and festivals.
Bo communities across seven world regions.
Proposed Durham, North Carolina partnership.