BAMBA, a province of Congo, on the western coast of Africa, lying to the S. of the River Ambriz. This district is fertile, abounds in gold, silver, copper, salt, Ac., and is said to be thickly populated. Its chief town, which bears the same name, was formerly of considerable importance, the climate being remarkably healthy for that region of Africa.

BAMBARRA, a country of inner Africa, on the Joliba or Upper Niger. The principal towns are Segu, Sansading, Jamima, Mursha, Jabbi, Sai, Kullikoro, Maraca-Duba, and Damba, in many of which the Mahometans have mosques. For further particulars see Africa, voL i. p. 271.

BAMBARRA, a town of western Africa on a backwater of the Niger, of considerable commercial importance, and situated in a fertile plain, 115 miles S.S.W. of Timbuctoo. (See Barth’s Travels in Central Africa, vol. iv. p. 354.)