# Pujehun

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'''Pujehun''' is the capital of [Pujehun District](/source/Pujehun_District) in the [Southern Province](/source/Southern_Province%2C_Sierra_Leone). The current estimate of the population  of Pujehun is 20,121 people.{{cn|date=December 2017}}

Pujehun is a [rural](/source/rural) town and is the commercial and administrative center of Pujehun District. Pujehun lies about 50 miles south of [Bo](/source/Bo%2C_Sierra_Leone), and about 200 miles -south-east of [Freetown](/source/Freetown).  The inhabitants of Pujehun are largely from the [Mende](/source/Mende_people) ethnic group, although like with virtually all areas in Sierra Leone, the [Krio language](/source/Krio_language) of the [Sierra Leone Creole people](/source/Sierra_Leone_Creole_people) is the most widely spoken.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.language9.com/languages/translation/krio-translation.html |title=Krio Translation Services |publisher=Language9.com |access-date=20 May 2012}}</ref><ref name="https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/181">{{Cite book |last1 = Oyètádé |first1 = B. Akíntúndé |last2 = Fashole-Luke |first2 = Victor|title = Language and National Identity in Africa |place = Oxford |publisher = Oxford University Press |chapter = Sierra Leone: Krio and the Quest for National Integration |pages = 122–140 |chapter-url = https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/181|date = 15 February 2008 |isbn = 978-0-19-928675-1 }}</ref>

==History==
Pujehun was named after the powerful [Mende](/source/Mende_people) [warrior](/source/warrior) [Nyagua](/source/Nyagua),{{cn|date=October 2022}} who was residing at the nearby village of [Panguma](/source/Panguma). When Nyagua and his men went to battle, they used the site of the present village as their resting place. At that time There was a lot of pepper growing in the town, which the Mende call "pujei." At any time they reached that area, they called it Pujehun. Pujehun was initially known as Gombu and later change to present day name possibly because of the pepper (pujei) growing history.{{cn|date=October 2022}}

==Population ==
The majority of the population in Pujehun are from the [Mende](/source/Mende_people) [ethnic group](/source/ethnic_group). Most of the residents are Muslims and the town hosts the [Pujehun Central Mosque](/source/Pujehun_Central_Mosque).

==References==
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