Bumpe
place in Southern Province, Sierra Leone
Bumpe is a small town in Bo District in the Southern Province of Sierra Leone. As of 2013 it had an estimated population of 16,123. The town is located south-west of Bo.
The town is also known as Bompeh, and both names are applied to a local river. Sir Samuel Rowe, the British Colonial Governor, visited the area in 1880.
Pan Pacific Investments Corporation (SL) Limited has a license to mine for diamonds in Bompeh.
“Bumpe” enters the record as place in Southern Province, Sierra Leone. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Bumpe, place and Southern can confirm, complicate or overturn.
Why this record matters
“Bumpe” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Bumpe, place and Southern provides the most credible route into that argument.
The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 23, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q2946676. Authority coordinates are 7.892, -11.902. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2013 and 1880.
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This entry incorporates text from “Bumpe” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.