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Location of Senegal Satellite image of Senegal Senegal's cities and main towns Topography of Senegal. Senegal is a coastal West African nation located 14 degrees north of the equator and 14 degrees west of the Prime Meridian. The country's total area is 196,190 km 2 of which 192,000 km 2 is land and 4,190 km 2 is water.
On September 1, 2009, Google announced that it started collecting images in South Africa for Google Maps Street View. [9] Google is currently driving around South Africa in Toyota Priuses, taking photographs of locations in the cities of Johannesburg, Pretoria, Cape Town, Port Elizabeth, Durban and East London.
Senegal's economic and political capital is Dakar. Senegal is the westernmost country in the mainland of the Old World, or Afro-Eurasia. [14] It owes its name to the Senegal River, which borders it to the east and north. [15] The climate is typically Sahelian, though there is a rainy season. Senegal covers a land area of almost 197,000 square ...
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 ...
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.
Google Earth is a web and computer program that renders a 3D representation of Earth based primarily on satellite imagery.The program maps the Earth by superimposing satellite images, aerial photography, and GIS data onto a 3D globe, allowing users to see cities and landscapes from various angles.
The Trans-Sahelian Highway or TAH 5 is a transnational highway project to pave, improve and ease border formalities on a highway route through the southern fringes of the Sahel region in West Africa between Dakar, Senegal in the west and Ndjamena, Chad, in the east.
The idea behind the development of Diamniadio Lake City is to ease the population pressure on Dakar. [7] The project attracted a lot of bids from local and international companies, including Germany’s state-owned KFW Development Bank, ultimately won by the Semer Investment Group, based in UAE and Senegal. [8]