Salemata
Salémata department is one of the 46 departments of Senegal, located in the Kédougou region. It was created as part of the new region in 2008. The chief settlement and only commune in the department is Salémata. The rural districts are as follows:…| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: department of Senegal with 28,100 residents
- Description: department of Senegal
- Also known as: “Departement de Salemata”, “Salemata Department”, “Salémata department”, and “Salémata Department”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Salemata and Dar Salam.
Salemata
Salémata is a city in Senegal. Salemata and the surrounding Bassari villages attract tourists interested in experiencing the Bassari culture. The area comes alive during the month of May, for the annual initiation ceremonies.Dar Salam
Village
Photo: Trees ForTheFuture, CC BY 2.0.
Dar Salam is a village, which is situated 3½ km northwest of Salemata.
Salemata
- Location: Kédougou region, Senegal, West Africa, Africa
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Spanish—“Salemata” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Département de Salémata”
- Chinese: “Salémata Koān”
- Chinese: “薩萊馬塔省”
- Dutch: “Salémata Department”
- French: “département de Salemata”
- French: “Département de Salemata”
- Galician: “Departamento de Salemata”
- German: “Département Salémata”
- German: “Salémata”
- Greek: “Νομός του Σαλεματά”
- Italian: “dipartimento di Salémata”
- Italian: “Dipartimento di Salémata”
- Japanese: “サレマタ県”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Salémata Koān”
- Persian: “سالمتا”
- Spanish: “Departamento de Salémata”
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