Ziguinchor
Ziguinchor is a region of Senegal. The region is also referred to historically and popularly as Basse Casamance.- Type: region of Senegal with 612,000 residents
- Description: region of Senegal
- Also known as: “Baixa Casamanca”, “Baixa Casamança”, “Basse-Casamance”, “Comarca de Ziguinchor”, “Diwaanu Siggcoor”, “Região de Ziguinchor”, “Region de Ziguinchor”, “Région de Ziguinchor”, “Región Ziguinchor”, “Regiono de Ziguinchor”, “Regiono Ziguinchor”, “SN-ZG”, “Ziguinchor region”, “Ziguinchor Region”, “Ziguinchorreko eskualdea”, and “زیگینچور ریجن”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Balinghore and Bagaya.
Bagaya
Village
Ziguinchor
- Location: Senegal, West Africa, Africa
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Latitude
12.8° or 12° 48′ north
Longitude
-16.3667° or 16° 22′ west
Population
612,000
Elevation
19 metres (62 feet)
Open location code
7C45QJXM+X8
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Wu Chinese—“Ziguinchor” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ዚጊንሾር”
- Arabic: “إقليم زيغنشور”
- Azerbaijani: “Ziquinşor”
- Basque: “Ziguinchor eskualdea”
- Basque: “Ziguinchor”
- Belarusian: “Зыгіншор”
- Bengali: “জিগুইনকা”
- Bulgarian: “Зигиншор”
- Catalan: “regió de Ziguinchor”
- Catalan: “Regió de Ziguinchor”
- Cebuano: “Ziguinchor”
- Chinese: “济金绍尔区”
- Chinese: “濟金紹爾區”
- Czech: “Ziguinchor”
- Danish: “Region Ziguinchor”
- Danish: “Ziguinchor”
- Dutch: “Ziguinchor”
- Esperanto: “Ziguinchor”
- Finnish: “Ziguinchor”
- Finnish: “Ziguinchorin alue”
- French: “Ziguinchor”
- French: “Basse Casamance” (historical)
- Fulah: “Ziguinchor Region”
- Galician: “Rexión de Ziguinchor”
- German: “Region Ziguinchor”
- Greek: “Ζιγκινσόρ”
- Gujarati: “ઝિગ્વિન્ચોર”
- Hausa: “Ziguinchor”
- Hebrew: “זיגינשור”
- Hindi: “ज़िगुइनिचर क्षेत्र”
- Indonesian: “Region Ziguinchor”
- Italian: “Regione di Ziguinchor”
- Italian: “Ziguinchor”
- Japanese: “ジガンショール州”
- Javanese: “Ziguinchor”
- Kannada: “ಝಿಗುನ್ಚೋರ್”
- Kazakh: “Зигиншор”
- Kirghiz: “Зигиншор”
- Korean: “지갱쇼르주”
- Korean: “지긴쇼르주”
- Latvian: “Ziginšora”
- Latvian: “Ziginšoras reģions”
- Lithuanian: “Ziginšoro regionas”
- Malay: “Ziguinchor”
- Marathi: “झिगुइन्चॉर”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Ziguinchor Chiu”
- Northern Frisian: “Ziguinchor Regiuun”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Ziguinchor”
- Norwegian: “Ziguinchor”
- Oromo: “Ziguinchor”
- Panjabi: “ਜ਼ਿਗਿਨਸ਼ੋਰ”
- Persian: “منطقه زیگینچور”
- Persian: “ناحیه زیگینچور”
- Polish: “Ziguinchor”
- Portuguese: “Ziguinchor”
- Pushto: “زيګينشور”
- Russian: “Зигиншор”
- Scots: “Ziguinchor Region”
- Sinhala: “සිගුයින්කොර්”
- Slovenian: “Ziguinchor”
- Somali: “Ziguinchor”
- Spanish: “región de Ziguinchor”
- Spanish: “Región de Ziguinchor”
- Swahili: “Mkoa wa Ziguinchor”
- Swedish: “Ziguinchor”
- Tajik: “Зигиншор”
- Tamil: “ஜிகின்சோர்”
- Tatar: “Зигинчор”
- Telugu: “జీగింకోర్”
- Thai: “ซิกินชอร์”
- Turkish: “Ziguinchor”
- Ukrainian: “Зігіншор”
- Ukrainian: “Регіон Зігіншор”
- Urdu: “زیگینچور علاقہ”
- Uzbek: “Ziguinchor”
- Vietnamese: “Ziguinchor”
- Wolof: “Diiwaanu Siggcoor”
- Wu Chinese: “济金绍尔区”
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