Pikine
Pikine is a city and the capital of the Pikine department, in the Dakar region in Senegal. The largest suburb of Senegalese capital Dakar, as of the 2013 Census, it had a population of 1,170,791. It is the second-largest city in Senegal, behind Dakar.Places of Interest
Highlights include Stade Al Djigo and Leopold Sédar Senghor Stadium.
Stade Al Djigo
Stadium
Stade Alassane Djigo is a multi-use stadium in Pikine, Senegal. It is currently used mostly for football matches and serves as a home ground of AS Pikine. The stadium holds 10,000 spectators. Sometimes AS Douanes play its matches at the stadium.
Leopold Sédar Senghor Stadium
Stadium
Léopold Sédar Senghor Stadium, formerly the Stade de l'Amitie, is a multi-purpose stadium in Dakar, Senegal.It is currently used mostly for football matches.
Urban Nature Reserve of the Great Niaye of Pikine and Dependency
Park
Urban Nature Reserve of the Great Niaye of Pikine and Dependency is a park.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Dakar and Parcelles Assainies.
Dakar
Dakar is the capital and largest city of Senegal and is often regarded as the cultural and commercial center of French-speaking West Africa. Dakar is often the first stop in exploring French-speaking West Africa because it has good flight connections with Western Europe.Parcelles Assainies
Suburb
Parcelles Assainies is a commune d'arrondissement of the city of Dakar, Senegal. As of 2013 it had a population of 159,498.
Thiaroye
Town
Thiaroye is the name of a historic town in Sénégal, situated in the suburbs of Dakar, on the southeast coast of the Cap-Vert peninsula, between Pikine and Rufisque.
Pikine
- Type: City with 1,170,000 residents
- Description: city in Senegal
- Categories: city, big city, and locality
- Location: Dakar, Senegal, West Africa, Africa
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Latitude
14.7515° or 14° 45′ 6″ north
Longitude
-17.3964° or 17° 23′ 47″ west
Population
1,170,000
Elevation
17 metres (56 feet)
Open location code
7C64QJ23+JC
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Waray—“Pikine” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بيكين”
- Asturian: “Pikine”
- Azerbaijani: “Pikine”
- Basque: “Pikine”
- Bengali: “পিকিন”
- Bulgarian: “Пикине”
- Cebuano: “Pikine”
- Chinese: “皮金”
- Danish: “Pikine”
- Dutch: “Pikine”
- Esperanto: “Pikine”
- Finnish: “Pikine”
- French: “Pikine”
- Galician: “Pikine”
- German: “Pikine”
- Greek: “Πικίνε”
- Gujarati: “પિકિન”
- Hebrew: “פיכין”
- Hebrew: “פיקין”
- Hindi: “पिकाएँ”
- Indonesian: “Pikine”
- Irish: “Pikine”
- Italian: “Pikine”
- Japanese: “ピキン”
- Kannada: “ಪಿಕಿನ್”
- Korean: “피킨”
- Latvian: “Pikine”
- Lithuanian: “Pikinis”
- Malay: “Pikine”
- Marathi: “पिकिन”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Pikine”
- Persian: “پیکیان”
- Polish: “Pikine”
- Portuguese: “Pikine”
- Russian: “Пикин”
- Russian: “Пикине”
- Sinhala: “පිකිනේ”
- Spanish: “Pikine”
- Swahili: “Pikine”
- Swedish: “Pikine”
- Tamil: “பிகினி”
- Telugu: “పికిన్”
- Thai: “พิกินี”
- Turkish: “Pikine”
- Turkish: “Senegal’de yerleşim birimi”
- Ukrainian: “Пікіне”
- Urdu: “پیکینی”
- Vietnamese: “Pikine”
- Waray (Philippines): “Pikine”
- “Pikine”
- “Ville de Pikine”
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