Thies

Thiès is the third largest city in with a population of 391,253 in 2023. It lies 72 km east of on the N2 road and at the junction of railway lines to , and . It is the capital of Thiès Region and is a major industrial city.
  • City with 320,000 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of 72 metres (236 feet)
  • …has the IATA airport code DSS
  • …is also known as “Cees”
  • Description: city in Senegal

Places of Interest

Highlights include Stade Maniang Soumaré and Gare de Thiès.

Thies

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Latitude
14.7915° or 14° 47′ 29″ north
Longitude
-16.9256° or 16° 55′ 32″ west
Open location code
7C65Q3RF+HQ
Open­Street­Map ID
Open­Street­Map feature
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Geo­Names ID
Wiki­data ID

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Wolof—“Thies” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Thiès”
  • Arabic: “تييس”
  • Armenian: “Թիես”
  • Asturian: “Thiès”
  • Azerbaijani: “Ties”
  • Basque: “Thiès”
  • Belarusian: “Ціес”
  • Bengali: “থিইস”
  • Bulgarian: “Тиес”
  • Catalan: “Thiès”
  • Chinese: “捷斯”
  • Chinese: “提斯”
  • Czech: “Thiès”
  • Danish: “Thiès”
  • Dutch: “Cees”
  • Dutch: “Thiès”
  • Esperanto: “Cees”
  • Esperanto: “Thiès”
  • Esperanto: “Tieso”
  • Estonian: “Thiès”
  • Finnish: “Thiès”
  • French: “La Cité du Rail”
  • French: “Thiès”
  • Galician: “Thiès”
  • German: “Thiès”
  • Greek: “Τιες”
  • Gujarati: “થિઝ”
  • Hebrew: “תיאס”
  • Hindi: “टीस”
  • Hungarian: “Thiès”
  • Indonesian: “Thies”
  • Indonesian: “Thiès”
  • Irish: “Thiès”
  • Italian: “Cees”
  • Italian: “Thiès”
  • Japanese: “ティエス”
  • Kannada: “ಥೀಸ್”
  • Korean: “티에스”
  • Latvian: “Tijesa”
  • Lithuanian: “Tiesas”
  • Luxembourgish: “Thiès”
  • Malay: “Thies”
  • Marathi: “थीस”
  • Northern Frisian: “Thiès”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Thies”
  • Norwegian: “Thiès”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Thiès”
  • Persian: “تی‌یس”
  • Polish: “Thiès”
  • Portuguese: “Cees”
  • Portuguese: “Thiès”
  • Romanian: “Thiès”
  • Russian: “Тиес”
  • Scots: “Thiès”
  • Shona: “Thiès”
  • Sinhala: “තීස්”
  • Slovak: “Thiès”
  • Slovenian: “Thiès”
  • South Azerbaijani: “تی‌یس”
  • Spanish: “Cees”
  • Spanish: “Thiès”
  • Swahili: “Thiès”
  • Swedish: “Thiès”
  • Tamil: “திஸ்”
  • Telugu: “థీస్”
  • Thai: “ทีสซูว์”
  • Turkish: “Senegal’de yerleşim birimi”
  • Turkish: “Thiès”
  • Ukrainian: “Тіес”
  • Ukrainian: “Тієс”
  • Urdu: “تھیس”
  • Uzbek: “Tiyes”
  • Venetian: “Thiès”
  • Veps: “Ties”
  • Vietnamese: “Thies”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Thiès”
  • Wolof: “Cees”
  • “Ville de Thiès”

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