Bakel
Bakel is a town and urban commune, with a population of 18,939, located in the eastern part of Senegal, West Africa. The town is located on the left bank of the Sénégal River, 65 kilometers from the Malian border and linked by canoe ferry to the village of Gouraye in Mauritania.
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.- Type: City with 13,300 residents
- Description: town and commune in Senegal
- Also known as: “Bakel, Senegal”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Gouraye.
Bakel
- Categories: commune of Senegal and locality
- Location: Tambacounda Region, Senegal, West Africa, Africa
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Latitude
14.905° or 14° 54′ 18″ north
Longitude
-12.4568° or 12° 27′ 25″ west
Population
13,300
Elevation
28 metres (92 feet)
IATA airport code
BXE
United Nations Location Code
SN BXE
Open location code
7C69WG3V+X7
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Urdu—“Bakel” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Bakel”
- Bulgarian: “Бакел”
- Catalan: “Bakel”
- Cebuano: “Bakel”
- Chinese: “巴克爾”
- Dutch: “Bakel”
- Finnish: “Bakel”
- French: “Bakel (Senegal)”
- French: “Bakel”
- German: “Bakel”
- Italian: “Bakel”
- Japanese: “バケル”
- Persian: “باکئل”
- Polish: “Bakel”
- Russian: “Бакель”
- Swahili: “Bakel (Senegal)”
- Swahili: “Bakel”
- Swedish: “Bakel”
- Turkish: “Senegal’de yerleşim birimi”
- Ukrainian: “Бакель”
- Urdu: “باکل، سینیگال”
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