Bendugu is the capital and largest town of Falaba District in the Northern Province of Sierra Leone

Bendugu is a very

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town and is also the seat of Mongo Chiefdom. Bendugu is located in close proximity to the international border with the

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. Bendugu is about 85 miles to Kabala, and is 300 miles east of

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. The main economic activity in the town is

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. The vast majority of the population of Bendugu are from the Kuranko and Yalunka ethnic groups. The overwhelming majority of the residents of Bendugu are

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, with a small

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minority. As with most parts of Sierra Leone, the

Krio language The Sierra Leonean Creole or Krio is an English-based creole language that is the lingua franca and de facto national language spoken throughout the West African nation of Sierra Leone. Krio is spoken by 96 percent of the country's population, ...

of the Sierra Leone Creole people is the most widely spoken language in Bendugu.

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