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Garowol

human settlement

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 7, 2022
Entity authorityQ1494419 ↗
Source-derived summary

Garowol or Garawoll is a small town in eastern Gambia near the border with Senegal. It is located in Kantora District in the Upper River Division. As of 2012, it has an estimated population of 8,124.

Jundala Forest Park is located nearby.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Garowol” as human settlement. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2012—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Garowol, human and settlement can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as human settlement. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 7, 2022. The linked authority identifier is Q1494419. Authority coordinates are 13.417, -13.933. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2012.

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This entry incorporates text from “Garowol” 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.