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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]
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 (/ 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 ...
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 ...
Driver Simon Vitse and co-driver Max Delfino compete during the seventh stage of the Dakar Rally with start and finish in Al Duwadimi, Saudi Arabia, Sunday, Jan. 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena ...
On 3 April 2010, the African Renaissance Monument was unveiled in Dakar in front of 19 African heads of state, including President of Malawi and the African Union, Bingu wa Mutharika, Jean Ping of the African Union Commission, and the Presidents of Benin, Cape Verde, Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, The Gambia, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania and Zimbabwe, as well as representatives from North ...
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 ...
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