Dakar
Appearance
Dakar | |
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Place de l'Indépendance | |
Ceety o Dakar, dividit intae 19 communes d'arrondissement | |
Coordinates: 14°41′34″N 17°26′48″W / 14.69278°N 17.44667°WCoordinates: 14°41′34″N 17°26′48″W / 14.69278°N 17.44667°W | |
Country | Senegal |
Région | Dakar |
Département | Dakar |
Settled | 15t century |
Communes d'arrondissement | 19
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Govrenment | |
• Mayor | Khalifa Sall (2009)[1] (BSS/PS) |
Area | |
• City | 83 km2 (32 sq mi) |
Elevation | 22 m (72 ft) |
Population (2013 estimate)[3] | |
• City | 1,146,053 |
• Density | 12510/km2 (32,400/sq mi) |
• Metro | 2,452,656 |
• Metro density | 4484/km2 (11,610/sq mi) |
Data here are for the admeenistrative Dakar région, that matches awmaist exactly the leemits o the metropolitan aurie | |
Time zone | UTC+0 (GMT) |
Website | villededakar.org |
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Dakar is the caipital an lairgest ceety o Senegal, locatit on the Cap-Vert Peninsula, on the kintra's Atlantic coast. Its position, on the wastren edge o Africae (it is the wastrenmaist ceety on the African mainland), is an advantageous departure point for trans-Atlantic an European trade; this fact aidit its growth intae a major regional port.
Accordin tae December 31, 2005 offeecial estimates, the ceety o Dakar proper haes a population o 1,030,594, whereas the population o the Dakar metropolitan aurie is estimatit at 2.45 million fowk.
Dakar is a major administrative centre, hame tae the Naitional Assembly o Senegal an Senegal's Preses's Palace.
Internaitional relations
[eedit | eedit soorce]Twin touns — Sister ceeties
[eedit | eedit soorce]Dakar is twinned wi:
- Ann Arbor, Michigan, Unitit States
- Baku, Azerbaijan
- Douala, Cameroon
- Isfahan, Iran
- Milan, Italy[4]
- Oran, Algerie
- Rangpur, Bangladesh
- Rosario, Argentinae
- Washington, D.C., Unitit States[5]
References
[eedit | eedit soorce]- ↑ L'opposant Khalifa Sall élu maire de Dakar. AFP. 2009-04-19
- ↑ climatemps.com
- ↑ UN Data. Projection based on 2002 census.
- ↑ "Città Gemellate" (in Italian). Comune di Milano. Archived frae the original on 27 October 2014. Retrieved 6 Apryle 2012.
- ↑ "DC Sister City Relationships". The District of Columbia. Archived frae the original on 14 Mey 2013. Retrieved 6 Apryle 2012.
Freemit airtins
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- (in French) Offeecial wabsteid
- Peace Corps Senegal Volunteer Guide tae Dakar Archived 2011-02-04 at the Wayback Machine
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