Casamance
The Casamance is the region of Senegal south of The Gambia. Centered on the Casamance River, the region is soaked with mangrove forests, speckled with charming villages, and lined with the best beaches in all of Senegal.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Ziguinchor and Cap Skirring.
Ziguinchor
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Ziguinchor is the capital of the Ziguinchor Region, and the chief town of the Casamance area of Senegal, lying at the mouth of the Casamance River. It has a population of 214,874.
Cap Skirring
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Cap Skirring, also spelled Cap Skiring, is a town on the Atlantic Ocean coast of the Basse Casamance region of Senegal, near the border of Guinea-Bissau.
Kafountine
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Kafountine is a coastal village in the Casamance region of Senegal. The village traditionally lives from fishing and rice cultivation, but tourism is developing rapidly thanks to the beach along the filao trees and many camps have been set up, particularly around ecotourism.
Casamance
- Type: region
- Description: region in Senegal
- Categories: landscape and natural region
- Location: Senegal, West Africa, Africa
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Latitude of center
13.0153° or 13° 0′ 55″ northLongitude of center
-15.3177° or 15° 19′ 4″ westWikidata ID
Q839607
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Wolof—“Casamance” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Casamance”
- Arabic: “كازامانس”
- Basque: “Casamance”
- Basque: “Cassamance”
- Breton: “Casamance”
- Breton: “Kazamañs”
- Catalan: “Casamance”
- Chinese: “卡萨芒斯”
- Chinese: “卡薩芒斯”
- Czech: “Casamance”
- Danish: “Casamance”
- Dutch: “Casamance”
- Esperanto: “Kazamanco”
- Finnish: “Casamance”
- French: “Casamance”
- Galician: “Casamansa”
- Galician: “Casamanza”
- Galician: “Rexión de Casamanza”
- German: “Casamance”
- Hebrew: “קאזאמאנס”
- Hungarian: “Casamance”
- Indonesian: “Casamance”
- Italian: “Casamance”
- Japanese: “カサマンス”
- Japanese: “カザマンス”
- Japanese: “カザマンス地方”
- Korean: “카자망스”
- Lithuanian: “Kasamansas”
- Lithuanian: “Kazamansas”
- Malay: “Kasamansa”
- N'Ko: “ߞߛߊߡߊߛߌ߬”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Casamance”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Casamança”
- Panjabi: “ਕਾਜ਼ਾਮਾਂਸ”
- Persian: “کازامانس”
- Polish: “Casamance”
- Portuguese: “Casamança”
- Portuguese: “Casamance”
- Portuguese: “Casamansa”
- Russian: “Казаманс”
- Slovenian: “Casamance”
- Spanish: “Casamance”
- Spanish: “Casamanza”
- Spanish: “Cassamance”
- Swedish: “Casamanca”
- Swedish: “Casamança”
- Swedish: “Casamance”
- Ukrainian: “Казаманс”
- Ukrainian: “Касаманка”
- Ukrainian: “Касаманса”
- Urdu: “کازامنس”
- Venetian: “Cazamance”
- Wolof: “Kaasamaas”
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About Mapcarta. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Casamance”. Photo: jbdodane, CC BY 2.0.