Louga
Louga is a city in northwestern Senegal. Louga is a cattle market centre, and has road and rail links with the port city of Saint-Louis to the northwest and Dakar to the southwest.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: City with 82,900 residents
- Description: city
- Also known as: “Nguer Malal”
Louga
- Category: locality
- Location: Louga Region, Senegal, West Africa, Africa
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Latitude
15.6119° or 15° 36′ 43″ northLongitude
-16.2233° or 16° 13′ 24″ westPopulation
82,900Elevation
42 metres (138 feet)United Nations Location Code
SN LOUOpen location code
7C75JQ6G+PMOpenStreetMap ID
node 249743823OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Wolof—“Louga” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “لوجا”
- Arabic: “لوغا”
- Armenian: “Լուգա”
- Asturian: “Louga”
- Basque: “Louga”
- Belarusian: “Луга (Сенегал)”
- Belarusian: “Луга”
- Bulgarian: “Луга”
- Catalan: “Louga”
- Cebuano: “Louga (kapital sa rehiyon)”
- Cebuano: “Louga”
- Chinese: “盧加”
- Czech: “Louga”
- Danish: “Louga”
- Dutch: “Louga”
- Egyptian Arabic: “لوجا”
- Finnish: “Louga”
- French: “Louga”
- German: “Louga”
- Hebrew: “לוגה”
- Irish: “Louga”
- Italian: “Louga”
- Japanese: “ルーガ (都市)”
- Japanese: “ルーガ”
- Korean: “루가”
- Lithuanian: “Luga”
- Northern Frisian: “Louga”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Louga”
- Norwegian: “Louga”
- Persian: “لوگا”
- Polish: “Louga”
- Portuguese: “Louga”
- Romanian: “Louga”
- Russian: “Луга”
- Spanish: “Louga”
- Swahili: “Louga”
- Swedish: “Louga”
- Ukrainian: “Луга”
- Urdu: “لؤگا”
- Wolof: “Luga”
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