Gorée
Île de Gorée is one of the 19 communes d'arrondissement of the city of Dakar, Senegal. It is an 18.2-hectare island located two kilometres at sea from the main harbour of Dakar, famous as a destination for people interested in the Atlantic slave trade.
- Type: Suburb with 1,680 residents
- Description: one of the 19 communes d’arrondissement (i.e. districts) of the city of Dakar, Senegal; World Heritage Site
- Also known as: “Bezeguiche”, “Goeree”, “Goré”, “Gorė”, “Gorea”, “Gorèe”, “Goree Adası”, “Gorée Island”, “Goreo”, “Ile de Goree”, “Ilha de Gorée”, “Ilha de Palma ou de Bezeguiche”, “illa de Gorée”, “Insel Gorée”, “Isla de Goree”, “Isla de Gorée”, “Island of Gorée”, “Isle de Goree”, “Isola di Gorea”, “Isola di Gorée”, “Otok Goree”, “Otok Gorée”, “Pulau Goree”, “Pulau Gorée”, “Senegal’de yerleşim birimi”, “Горе (остров)”, “остров Горе”, “ゴレー島”, and “戈雷島”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Saint Charles Church and Maritime Museum.
Dakar station
Railway station
Dakar station is a railway station, which is situated 4 km west of Gorée.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Dakar-Plateau and Dakar.
Dakar-Plateau
Suburb
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Gueule Tapée-Fass-Colobane
Suburb
Photo: Ji-Elle, Public domain.Gorée
- Categories: island, cultural heritage, Communes d’arrondissement of Senegal, urban area, car-free place, World Heritage Site, and locality
- Location: Dakar Department, Dakar, Senegal, West Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
14.66641° or 14° 39′ 59″ north
Longitude
-17.39828° or 17° 23′ 54″ west
Population
1,680
Open location code
7C64MJ82+HM
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburb
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Wolof—“Gorée” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Gorée”
- Arabic: “جزيرة غوريه”
- Armenian: “Գորե (կղզի)”
- Armenian: “Գորե”
- Asturian: “Islla de Gorea”
- Azerbaijani: “Qore adası”
- Basque: “Gorée uhartea”
- Belarusian: “Востраў Гарэ”
- Belarusian: “Гарэ”
- Breton: “Enez Gorée”
- Bulgarian: “Горе”
- Burmese: “ဂိုရီးခရိုင်”
- Catalan: “Gorée”
- Cebuano: “Île de Gorée”
- Chinese: “戈雷岛”
- Chinese: “格雷岛”
- Chinese: “格雷島”
- Croatian: “Gorée”
- Czech: “Gorée”
- Danish: “Gorée”
- Dutch: “Gorée”
- Esperanto: “Gorée”
- Finnish: “Gorée”
- French: “île de Gorée”
- French: “Île de Gorée”
- Galician: “Illa de Gorée”
- Georgian: “გორე”
- German: “Gorée”
- Greek: “Ιλ ντε Γκορέ”
- Hausa: “Gorée”
- Hebrew: “גורה”
- Hindi: “गोरी द्वीप”
- Hindi: “गोरे”
- Hungarian: “Gorée-sziget”
- Indonesian: “Goree”
- Italian: “Gorée”
- Japanese: “ゴレ島”
- Korean: “고레 섬”
- Korean: “고레섬”
- Kotava: “Gorée Ewala”
- Lithuanian: “Gorė sala”
- Maithili: “गोरी टापु”
- Malayalam: “ഗോരീ”
- Maltese: “Gżira ta‘ Gorée”
- Maltese: “Gżira ta’ Gorée”
- Nepali: “गोरीको टापु”
- Northern Frisian: “Gorée”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Gorée”
- Norwegian: “Gorée”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Gorée”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Illa de Gorèa”
- Persian: “گوره”
- Persian: “گورهی”
- Polish: “Gorée”
- Portuguese: “Goreia”
- Russian: “Горе”
- Scots: “Gorée”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Gorée”
- Slovenian: “Gorée”
- Spanish: “Isla de Gorea”
- Swahili: “Gorée”
- Swedish: “Gorée”
- Turkish: “Gorée Adası”
- Turkish: “Gorée”
- Ukrainian: “Горе”
- Vietnamese: “Gorée”
- Western Frisian: “Goree”
- Wolof: “Beer”
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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Dakar Point and Pointe Bernard.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights: Galerie LamP XR Gorée and Goree Island.
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Worth a closer look: Dakar and Saint-Louis.
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