Dakar

Dakar region is the smallest and most populated region of , encompassing the capital city of the country, , and all its suburbs along the Cap Vert peninsula, 's most westerly point.
  • State with about 3,900,000 residents
  • Description: region of Senegal
  • Also known as
    “Dakar Region”
    “Région du Cap Vert”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Keur Massar department and Thiaroye.
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Latitude
14.7765° or 14° 46′ 35″ north
Longitude
-17.3226° or 17° 19′ 22″ west
Open location code
7C64QMGG+JW
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Open­Street­Map feature
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Amharic to Wu Chinese—“Dakar” goes by many names.
  • Amharic: “ዳካር”
  • Arabic: “داكار”
  • Arabic: “ديوان دكار”
  • Armenian: “Դակար”
  • Azerbaijani: “Dakar”
  • 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: “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”
  • Hausa: “Dakar”
  • Hindi: “डकार”
  • Indonesian: “Region Dakar”
  • Italian: “Dakar”
  • Italian: “Regione di Dakar”
  • Japanese: “ダカール州”
  • Javanese: “Dakar”
  • Kannada: “ಡಾಕರ್”
  • Kazakh: “Дакар”
  • Kirghiz: “Дакар”
  • 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”
  • Oromo: “Dakar”
  • Panjabi: “ਡਕਾਰ”
  • Persian: “ناحیه داکار”
  • Polish: “Dakar”
  • Portuguese: “Dacar”
  • Portuguese: “Dakar”
  • Portuguese: “Região de Dakar”
  • Pushto: “ډاکار”
  • Romanian: “Regiunea Dakar”
  • Russian: “Дакар”
  • Scots: “Dakar Region”
  • Sinhala: “ඩකාර්”
  • Slovenian: “Dakar”
  • Somali: “Dakar”
  • Spanish: “Dakar”
  • Spanish: “Región Dakar”
  • Spanish: “Región de Dakar”
  • Swahili: “Mkoa wa Dakar”
  • Swedish: “Dakar”
  • Tajik: “Дакар”
  • Tamil: “தக்கார்”
  • Tatar: “Дакар”
  • Telugu: “డాకర్”
  • Thai: “เมืองดาการ์”
  • Turkish: “Dakar”
  • Ukrainian: “Дакар”
  • Urdu: “ڈاکار ریجن”
  • Urdu: “ڈاکار علاقہ”
  • Uzbek: “Dakar”
  • Vietnamese: “Dakar”
  • Wolof: “Diiwaanu Ndakaaru”
  • Wolof: “Diwaanu Ndakaaru”
  • Wolof: “Ndakaaru”
  • Wu Chinese: “达喀尔区”

Localities in the Area

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Senegal: Highlights

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