Kanel
Kanel department is one of the 46 departments of Senegal, located in the Matam region in the east of the country. The department has six communes; Kanel, Semmé, Waounde, Dembakané, Hamady Ounaré, and Sinthiou Bamambé-Banadji. The rural districts comprise:…| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: department of Senegal with 343,000 residents
- Description: department in Matam Region, Senegal
- Also known as: “Kanel department” and “Kanel Department”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kanel.
Kanel
Town
Kanel is a town and urban commune in the Matam Region of northeastern Senegal. It is the capital of the Kanel Department. The population in 2023 was 15,244, an increase from the 12,975 counted in 2013.
Kanel
- Location: Matam Region, Senegal, West Africa, Africa
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Spanish—“Kanel” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Kanel Department”
- Chinese: “Kanel Koān”
- Chinese: “卡內省”
- Dutch: “Kanel Department”
- French: “département de Kanel”
- French: “Département de Kanel”
- French: “Kanel”
- Galician: “Departamento de Kanel”
- German: “Departement Kanel”
- German: “Kanel”
- Italian: “dipartimento di Kanel”
- Italian: “Dipartimento di Kanel”
- Japanese: “カネル県”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Kanel Koān”
- Persian: “بخش کانل”
- Portuguese: “Kanel”
- Spanish: “Departamento de Kanel”
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