Bolilands

region, Sierra Leone

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landscape of Sierra Leone

  • Sierra Leone
    In Sierra Leone: Relief

    …seasonal swamps known as “Bolilands” (boli being a Temne word for those lands that are flooded in the rainy season and dry and hard in the dry season and on which only grass can grow). In the south the plains comprise rolling wooded country where isolated hills rise abruptly…

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