Thies
Thiès department is one of the 46 departments of Senegal, one of the three located in the Thiès region. There are 4 urban communes in the department: Kayar, Khombole, Pout and Thiès. The rural districts comprise:…| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: department of Senegal with 880,000 residents
- Description: department of Senegal
- Also known as: “Thies Department”, “Thiès department”, and “Thiès Department”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Thies.
Thies
Thiès is the third largest city in Senegal with a population of 391,253 in 2023. It lies 72 km east of Dakar on the N2 road and at the junction of railway lines to Dakar, Bamako and St-Louis. It is the capital of Thiès Region and is a major industrial city.Thies
- Location: Thiès region, Senegal, West Africa, Africa
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In Other Languages
From Azerbaijani to Spanish—“Thies” goes by many names.
- Azerbaijani: “Ties departamenti”
- Cebuano: “Thiès”
- Chinese: “Thiès Koān”
- Chinese: “捷斯省”
- Dutch: “Thiès Department”
- French: “Département de Thiès”
- Galician: “Departamento de Thiès”
- German: “Département Thiès”
- German: “Thiès”
- Italian: “dipartimento di Thiès”
- Italian: “Dipartimento di Thiès”
- Japanese: “ティエス県”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Thiès Koān”
- Persian: “بخش تییس”
- Persian: “تیز”
- Portuguese: “Thiès”
- Slovenian: “departma Thiès”
- Spanish: “Departamento de Thiès”
Places with the Same Name
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Thiès Regional Hospital and Hospital St Jean De Dieu.
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