Banjul City Council

Banjul is the capital of The Gambia, sited on St Mary’s Island where the Gambia River meets the
Atlantic, linked to the mainland by bridge and to the far bank by ferry, and lying barely two metres
above sea level. It is the country’s administrative and economic centre, home to the Central Bank of
The Gambia and to the Port of Banjul, through which groundnuts, palm oil, beeswax, palm wood and
hides are exported. The Council’s partnership with the City of Ostend and the European Union
delivered the Crab Island Sustainable Development Centre, opened in March 2026 as a climateresilience
and community hub, following the “Greening the Inner City of Banjul” tree-planting
scheme that set 5 000 coconut trees along the city beach to curb coastal erosion.