Kaolack
Kaolack département is one of the 46 departments of Senegal, located in the Kaolack region. It contains five communes: Gandiaye, Kahone, Kaolack, Ndoffane, and Sibassor. Rural districts comprise:…| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: department of Senegal with 665,000 residents
- Description: department of Senegal
- Also known as: “Kaolack department”, “Kaolack Department”, and “Kaolak”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kaolack.
Kaolack
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Kaolack is a town with a population of 298,904 on the north bank of the Saloum River about 100 kilometres from its mouth and the N1 road in Senegal. It is the capital of the Kaolack Region, which borders The Gambia to the south.
Kaolack
- Location: Kaolack Region, Senegal, West Africa, Africa
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Ukrainian—“Kaolack” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Kaolack”
- Chinese: “Kaolack Koān”
- Chinese: “考拉克省”
- Dutch: “Kaolack”
- French: “Departement de Kaolack”
- French: “Département de Kaolack”
- French: “Kaolack”
- Fulah: “Kaolack Department”
- Galician: “Departamento de Kaolack”
- German: “Département Kaolack”
- German: “Kaolack”
- Italian: “dipartimento di Kaolack”
- Italian: “Dipartimento di Kaolack”
- Japanese: “カオラック県”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Kaolack Koān”
- Persian: “کاولاک”
- Portuguese: “Kaolack”
- Russian: “Каолак”
- Spanish: “Departamento de Kaolack”
- Spanish: “Kaolack”
- Ukrainian: “Каолак”
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Notable Places Nearby
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