Pujehun is the capital of

Pujehun District Pujehun District is a district in the Southern Province of Sierra Leone. Pujehun District is one of the sixteen Districts of Sierra Leone. Its capital and largest city is the town of Pujehun . The other major towns in the district include Gandor ...

in the Southern Province. The current estimate of the population of Pujehun is 20,121 people. Pujehun is a

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town and is the commercial and administrative center of Pujehun District. Pujehun lies about 50 miles south of Bo, and about 200 miles -south-east of

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. The inhabitants of Pujehun are largely from the Mende ethnic group, although like with virtually all areas in Sierra Leone, the Krio language of the Sierra Leone Creole people is the most widely spoken.

History

Pujehun was named after the powerful Mende

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Nyagua Nyagua was a Mende chief from Sierra Leone. Early life and career Nyagua was born in the early 1800 in Kenema in the Eastern Province of Sierra Leone. Nyagua ruled a great realm, covering much of the territory between modern Kenema and Sefad ...

, who was residing at the nearby village of Panguma. When Nyagua and his men went to battle, they used the site of the present village as their resting place. At that time There was a lot of pepper growing in the town, which the Mende call "puei." At any time they reached that area, they called it Pujehun.

Ethnicity

The majority of the population in Pujehun are from the Mende

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References

Populated places in Sierra Leone Southern Province, Sierra Leone {{SierraLeone-geo-stub