Matam
Matam is the capital town of the Matam Region in north-east Senegal, and lies on the Sénégal River on the border with Mauritania. In the census of 2002, Matam had 14,620 inhabitants and in the 2023 census the population of the town had increased to 27,695.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Locality with 27,700 residents
- Description: city and regional capital in Senegal
- Also known as: “Matam, Senegal”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ouro Sogui.
Ouro Sogui
Town
Ouro Sogui or Ourossogui lies in Matam Region in eastern Senegal on the N2 and N3 roads, just south west of Matam on the River Senegal. It is an important market town and transport hub. Ouro Sogui is situated 9 km southwest of Matam.
Matam
- Category: city
- Location: Matam Region, Senegal, West Africa, Africa
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Wolof—“Matam” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Matam”
- Azerbaijani: “Matam”
- Basque: “Matam”
- Bulgarian: “Матам”
- Catalan: “Matam”
- Cebuano: “Matam (kapital sa rehiyon)”
- Cebuano: “Matam”
- Chinese: “馬塔姆”
- Chinese: “马塔姆”
- Danish: “Matam”
- Dutch: “Matam”
- Esperanto: “Matam”
- Finnish: “Matam”
- French: “Matam”
- German: “Matam”
- Greek: “Ματάμ”
- Italian: “Matam”
- Japanese: “マタム”
- Korean: “마탐”
- Lithuanian: “Matamas”
- Northern Frisian: “Matam”
- Persian: “ماتام”
- Polish: “Matam”
- Romanian: “Matam, Senegal”
- Romanian: “Matam”
- Russian: “Матам”
- Spanish: “Matam”
- Swedish: “Matam”
- Ukrainian: “Матам (місто)”
- Ukrainian: “Матам”
- Urdu: “ماتام، سینیگال”
- Urdu: “ماتام”
- Wolof: “Maatam”
- Wolof: “Mataam”
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