Kaolack Region
The Kaolack region is a region in Senegal. It borders Gambia and is a common stopping point for travel between Dakar and Banjul. Its borders correspond roughly to the Saalum Kingdom of precolonial days, and the area is still spoken of as the Saalum in Wolof, and its inhabitants are called Saalum-Saalum. Kaolack city is the administrative centre for the region.Photo: Habobe2020, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: region of Senegal with 1,340,000 residents
- Description: region of Senegal
- Also known as: “Kaolack” and “Kaolack region”
Kaolack Region
- Location: Senegal, West Africa, Africa
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Wu Chinese—“Kaolack Region” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ካኦላክ”
- Arabic: “كاولاك”
- Azerbaijani: “Kaolak”
- Basque: “Kaolack eskualdea”
- Basque: “Kaolack”
- Basque: “Kaolackeko eskualdea”
- Bavarian: “Region Kaolack”
- Bengali: “কাওলাক”
- Bulgarian: “Каолак”
- Catalan: “Kaolack”
- Cebuano: “Kaolack”
- Chinese: “Kaolack Chiu”
- Chinese: “考拉克区”
- Chinese: “考拉克區”
- Czech: “Kaolack”
- Danish: “Kaolack”
- Danish: “Region Kaolack”
- Dutch: “Kaolack”
- Esperanto: “Kaolack (regiono)”
- Esperanto: “Kaolack”
- Esperanto: “Regiono de Kaolack”
- Esperanto: “Regiono Kaolack”
- Finnish: “Kaolackin alue”
- French: “Kaolack”
- French: “Région de Kaolack”
- Fulah: “Kaolack Region”
- Galician: “Rexión de Kaolack”
- German: “Kaolack”
- German: “Région de Kaolack”
- German: “Region Kaolack”
- German: “SN-KL”
- Greek: “Καολάκ”
- Gujarati: “કેઓલેક”
- Hausa: “Kaolack”
- Hindi: “काओलैक”
- Indonesian: “Region Kaolack”
- Italian: “Regione di Kaolack”
- Japanese: “カオラック州”
- Javanese: “Kaolack”
- Kannada: “ಕಾಲೋಕ್”
- Kazakh: “Каолак”
- Kirghiz: “Каолак”
- Korean: “카올라크주”
- Latvian: “Kaulaka”
- Latvian: “Kaulakas reģions”
- Lithuanian: “Kaolako regionas”
- Malay: “Kaolack”
- Marathi: “कॅओकॅक”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Kaolack Chiu”
- Northern Frisian: “Kaolack”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kaolack”
- Norwegian: “Kaolack”
- Oromo: “Kaolack”
- Panjabi: “ਕਾਓਲਾਕ”
- Persian: “ناحیه کائولاک”
- Polish: “Kaolack”
- Portuguese: “Kaolack”
- Portuguese: “Região de Kaolack”
- Pushto: “کاولاک”
- Romanian: “Regiunea Kaolack”
- Russian: “Каолак”
- Scots: “Kaolack Region”
- Sinhala: “කාඕලැක්”
- Slovak: “Kaolack”
- Somali: “Kaolack”
- Spanish: “Kaolack”
- Spanish: “Region de Kaolack”
- Spanish: “Región de Kaolack”
- Spanish: “Region Kaolack”
- Spanish: “Región Kaolack”
- Swahili: “Mkoa wa Kaolack”
- Swedish: “Kaolack”
- Tajik: “Каолак”
- Tamil: “கலோக்”
- Tatar: “Каолак”
- Telugu: “కావోలాక్”
- Thai: “เคาก์แลค”
- Turkish: “kaolack”
- Ukrainian: “Каолак”
- Urdu: “کاولاک ریجن”
- Urdu: “کاولاک علاقہ”
- Uzbek: “Kaolak”
- Vietnamese: “Kaolack”
- Wolof: “Diiwaanu Kawlak”
- Wolof: “Diiwaanu Kawlax”
- Wolof: “Diwaanu Kawlak”
- Wu Chinese: “考拉克区”
- “Kaolack”
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