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Dakar (/ d ɑː ˈ k ɑːr, d æ-/ UK also: / ˈ d æ k ɑːr /; [4] French:; Wolof: Ndakaaru) [5] is the capital and largest city of Senegal. The department of Dakar has a population of 1,278,469, and the population of the Dakar metropolitan area was at 4.0 million in 2023. Dakar is situated on the Cap-Vert peninsula, the westernmost point of ...
Africa. West Africa; Time zone: Coordinated Universal Time UTC+00; Extreme points of Senegal High: unnamed feature 2.7 km southeast of Nepen Diakha 648 m (2,126 ft) Low: North Atlantic Ocean 0 m; Land boundaries: 2,640 km Mauritania 813 km The Gambia 740 km Mali 419 km Guinea-Bissau 338 km Guinea 330 km. Coastline: North Atlantic Ocean 531 km
Dakar region (French: Région de Dakar) is the smallest and most populated region of Senegal, encompassing the capital city of the country, Dakar, and all its suburbs along the Cap Vert peninsula, Africa's most westerly point.
Senegal was one of the continent's pioneers in basketball as it established one of Africa's first competitive leagues. [145] In 2016, the NBA announced the launch of an Elite's Academy in Africa, and more precisely in Senegal. [146] The country hosted the Paris–Dakar rally from 1979 until 2007. The Dakar Rally was an off-road endurance ...
East Africa's central business hub and Kenya's capital, Nairobi. Cape Peninsula of Cape Town, Africa's southernmost city and the second largest one in South Africa, also its legislative capital. Kampala is the hub of Uganda. View of Algiers: Algeria's metropolis is one of the most important economic and traditional centres in North Africa.
Cities in Senegal Rank City Population Region; 1988 Census 2002 Census 2005 estimate 1: Dakar: 1,375,070: 1,983,093: 1,998,635: Dakar: 2: Touba: 123,751: 419,300: 428,059
Köppen–Geiger climate classification map at 1-km resolution for Senegal (1991–2020) Senegal has three main climatic regions. The southern portion, south of The Gambia, has a tropical savanna climate (Köppen Aw) with two extremely contrasting seasons from northeast winter winds, including the dry dusty harmattan, [3] and southwest summer ...
Pointe des Almadies or Point Almadies ([pwɑ̃t dez‿almadi] "bark canoe point") [1] is the westernmost point on the continent of Africa and of the Afro-Eurasian landmass, lying at 17.5 degrees west of the Greenwich meridian, 8 degrees further west than Cabo da Roca, mainland Europe's westernmost point. [2]