| Total population | |
|---|---|
| 304,000 | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
 Liberia | 278,000 |
 Sierra Leone | 26,000 |
| Languages | |
| Gola, English, Krio | |
| Religion | |
| Islam | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Kissi, Sherbro, Temne, Baga, Limba | |
The Gola or Gula are a West African ethnic group who share a common cultural heritage, language and history and who live primarily in western/northwestern Liberia and Eastern Sierra Leone. The Gola language is an isolate within the Niger–Congo language family. As of 2015[update], it is spoken by about 278,000 people.
The name Gola is a possible source for the name of the Gullah,[1] a people of African origin living on the islands and coastal regions of Georgia and South Carolina, in the southeastern United States.
- ^ Michael A. Gomez (9 November 2000). Exchanging Our Country Marks: The Transformation of African Identities in the Colonial and Antebellum South. Univ of North Carolina Press. p. 102. ISBN 978-0-8078-6171-4.