Dakar
Dakar region is the smallest and most populated region of Senegal, encompassing the capital city of the country, Dakar, and all its suburbs along the Cap Vert peninsula, Africa's most westerly point.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: State with 4,000,000 residents
- Description: region of Senegal
- Also known as: “Dakar region”, “Dakar Region”, and “Région du Cap Vert”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Keur Massar department and Thiaroye.
Keur Massar department
Town
Keur Massar department is one of the 46 departments of Senegal, located at the entrance to the Cap-Vert peninsula, east of Dakar.
Thiaroye
Town
Photo: Jean Cormon, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Thiaroye is the name of a historic town in Sénégal, situated in the suburbs of Dakar, on the southeast coast of the Cap-Vert peninsula, between Pikine and Rufisque.
Dakar
- Categories: region of Senegal and locality
- Location: Senegal, West Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
14.7765° or 14° 46′ 35″ northLongitude
-17.3226° or 17° 19′ 22″ westPopulation
4,000,000Elevation
16 metres (52 feet)Open location code
7C64QMGG+JWOpenStreetMap ID
node 2242821238OpenStreetMap feature
place=stateGeoNames ID
2253350Wikidata ID
Q856268
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Satellite Map
Discover Dakar from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Arabic to Wu Chinese—“Dakar” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “داكار”
- Arabic: “ديوان دكار”
- Armenian: “Դակար”
- Basque: “Dakar eskualdea”
- Basque: “Dakar”
- Basque: “Dakarreko eskualdea”
- Belarusian: “вобласць Дакар”
- Belarusian: “Дакар, вобласць”
- Belarusian: “Дакар”
- Bengali: “ডাকার”
- Bosnian: “Regija Dakar”
- Bulgarian: “Дакар”
- Catalan: “Dakar”
- Cebuano: “Dakar”
- Chinese: “Dakar Chiu”
- Chinese: “达喀尔区”
- Chinese: “達卡區”
- Chinese: “達喀爾區”
- Danish: “Dakar”
- Danish: “Region Dakar”
- Dutch: “Dakar”
- Dutch: “Regio Dakar”
- Esperanto: “Dakaro (regiono)”
- Esperanto: “Dakaro”
- Esperanto: “Regiono Dakaro”
- Esperanto: “Regiono de Dakaro”
- Finnish: “Dagar”
- Finnish: “Dagarin alue”
- Finnish: “Dakarin alue”
- French: “Dakar”
- French: “Région de Dakar”
- Galician: “Rexión de Dakar”
- German: “Dakar”
- German: “Region Dakar”
- German: “SN-DK”
- Greek: “Περιοχή του Ντακάρ”
- Gujarati: “ડકાર”
- Hindi: “डकार”
- Indonesian: “Region Dakar”
- Italian: “Dakar”
- Italian: “Regione di Dakar”
- Japanese: “ダカール州”
- Kannada: “ಡಾಕರ್”
- Korean: “다카르주”
- Latvian: “Dakara”
- Lithuanian: “Dakaro regionas”
- Malay: “Dakar”
- Maltese: “Dakar”
- Marathi: “डाकार”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Dakar Chiu”
- Northern Frisian: “Dakar (Regiuun)”
- Northern Frisian: “Dakar”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Dakar”
- Norwegian: “Dakar”
- Persian: “ناحیه داکار”
- Polish: “Dakar”
- Portuguese: “Dacar”
- Portuguese: “Dakar”
- Portuguese: “Região de Dakar”
- Romanian: “Regiunea Dakar”
- Russian: “Дакар”
- Scots: “Dakar Region”
- Sinhala: “ඩකාර්”
- Slovenian: “Dakar”
- Spanish: “Dakar”
- Spanish: “Region Dakar”
- Spanish: “Región Dakar”
- Spanish: “Region de Dakar”
- Spanish: “Región de Dakar”
- Swahili: “Mkoa wa Dakar”
- Swedish: “Dakar”
- Tamil: “தக்கார்”
- Telugu: “డాకర్”
- Thai: “เมืองดาการ์”
- Turkish: “Dakar”
- Ukrainian: “Дакар”
- Urdu: “ڈاکار ریجن”
- Urdu: “ڈاکار علاقہ”
- Vietnamese: “Dakar”
- Wolof: “Diiwaanu Ndakaaru”
- Wolof: “Diwaanu Ndakaaru”
- Wolof: “Ndakaaru”
- Wu Chinese: “达喀尔区”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Mosquée Unité 09 - Cité Grand Moulin and Hopital de Keur Massar.
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