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Dakar

Dakar

Dakar is the capital and largest city of and is often regarded as the cultural and commercial center of French-speaking West Africa. Dakar is often the first stop in exploring French-speaking West Africa because it has good flight connections with Western Europe.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Massalikoul Djinane Mosque and Stade Iba Mar Diop.

Mosque
Photo: Malickdieye38, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The is a in Dakar, .

Stadium
is a multi-use in Dakar, . It is currently used mostly for football matches and serves as a home ground of ASC Jaraaf and US Gorée.

Park
Photo: Aboubacarkhoraa, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Place de l'Obélisque is a central plaza in Dakar, .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Gueule Tapée-Fass-Colobane and Biscuiterie.

Suburb
Photo: Ji-Elle, Public domain.
is a commune d'arrondissement of the city of Dakar, . As of 2013 it had a population of 52,270.

Suburb
is a commune d'arrondissement of the city of Dakar, , part of the arrondissement of . It is located in the centre-southern area of the city. As of 2007, it had a population of 56,932.

Suburb
Photo: Ji-Elle, Public domain.
is a commune d'arrondissement of the city of Dakar, .

Dakar

Latitude
14.6934° or 14° 41′ 36″ north
Longitude
-17.4479° or 17° 26′ 53″ west
Population
2,400,000
Elevation
12 metres (39 feet)
IATA airport code
DKR
United Nations Location Code
SN DKR
Open location code
7C64MHV2+9R
Open­Street­Map ID
node 27565045
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2253354
Wiki­data ID
Q3718
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Dakar” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Dakar”
  • Albanian: “Dakari”
  • Amharic: “ዳካር”
  • Arabic: “داكار”
  • Arabic: “دكار”
  • Aragonese: “Dakar”
  • Armenian: “Դակար”
  • Arpitan: “Dakar”
  • Asturian: “Dakar”
  • Azerbaijani: “Dakar”
  • Balinese: “Dakar”
  • Bambara: “Dakar”
  • Bashkir: “Дакар”
  • Basque: “Dakar”
  • Belarusian: “Дакар”
  • Bengali: “ডাকার”
  • Bengali: “দাকার”
  • Bosnian: “Dakar”
  • Breton: “Dakar”
  • Bulgarian: “Дакар”
  • Catalan: “Dakar”
  • Cebuano: “Dakar (ulohang dakbayan)”
  • Cebuano: “Dakar”
  • Central Kurdish: “داکار”
  • Chechen: “Дакар”
  • Chinese: “Dakar”
  • Chinese: “达喀尔”
  • Chinese: “達卡”
  • Chinese: “達喀爾”
  • Chuvash: “Дакар”
  • Croatian: “Dakar”
  • Czech: “Dakar”
  • Danish: “Dakar”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Daqar”
  • Dutch: “Dakar”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “داكار”
  • Esperanto: “Dakaro”
  • Estonian: “Dakar”
  • Extremaduran: “Dakar”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Dakar”
  • Finnish: “Dakar”
  • French: “Dakar”
  • Ga: “Dakar”
  • Galician: “Dacar”
  • Galician: “Dakar”
  • Georgian: “დაკარი”
  • German: “Dakar”
  • Greek: “Ντακάρ”
  • Guarani: “Dakar”
  • Gujarati: “ડકાર”
  • Haitian: “Daka”
  • Haitian: “Dakar”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Dakar”
  • Hausa: “Dakar”
  • Hebrew: “דקאר”
  • Hebrew: “דקר”
  • Hindi: “डकर”
  • Hindi: “डकार”
  • Hindi: “डाकार”
  • Hungarian: “Dakar”
  • Icelandic: “Dakar”
  • Ido: “Dakar”
  • Inari Sami: “Dakar”
  • Indonesian: “Dakar”
  • Interlingua: “Dakar”
  • Interlingue: “Dakar”
  • Irish: “Dacár”
  • Italian: “Dakar”
  • Japanese: “ダカール”
  • Javanese: “Dakar”
  • Kabiyè: “Taakarɩ”
  • Kabyle: “Dakar”
  • Kannada: “ಡಕರ್”
  • Kannada: “ಡಕಾರ್”
  • Kazakh: “Дакар”
  • Khmer: “ដាកា”
  • Kirghiz: “Дакар”
  • Komering: “Dakar”
  • Kongo: “Dakar”
  • Korean: “다카르”
  • Kotava: “Dakar”
  • Kurdish: “Dakar”
  • Latin: “Dakar”
  • Latvian: “Dakara”
  • Ligurian: “Dakar”
  • Limburgan: “Dakar”
  • Lingala: “Dakar”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Dakar”
  • Lithuanian: “Dakaras”
  • Livvi: “Dakar”
  • Lombard: “Dakar”
  • Luxembourgish: “Dakar”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Dakar”
  • Macedonian: “Дакар”
  • Malagasy: “Dakar”
  • Malay: “Dakar”
  • Malayalam: “ഡാക്കർ”
  • Maltese: “Dakar”
  • Marathi: “डकार”
  • Mazanderani: “داکار”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Dakar”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Dakar”
  • Minangkabau: “Dakar”
  • Mingrelian: “დაკარი”
  • Moksha: “Дакар”
  • Mongolian: “Дакар”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “داكار”
  • N'Ko: “ߘߊ߬ߞߊ߯ߙߌ߫”
  • N'Ko: “ߘߊ߬ߞߊ߯ߙߎ߫”
  • Northern Frisian: “Dakar”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Dakar”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Dakar”
  • Norwegian: “Dakar”
  • Novial: “Dakar”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Dakar”
  • Ossetian: “Дакар”
  • Panjabi: “ਡਾਕਾਰ”
  • Papiamento: “Dakar”
  • Persian: “داکار”
  • Piemontese: “Dakar”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Dakaa”
  • Polish: “Dakar”
  • Portuguese: “Dacar”
  • Portuguese: “Dakar”
  • Pushto: “داکار”
  • Quechua: “Dakar”
  • Romanian: “Dakar”
  • Russian: “Дакар”
  • Rusyn: “Сенеґал”
  • Santali: “ᱰᱟᱠᱟᱨ”
  • Sardinian: “Dakar”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Dakar”
  • Scots: “Dakar”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Dakar”
  • Serbian: “Дакар”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Dakar”
  • Shona: “Dakar”
  • Sicilian: “Dakar”
  • Silesian: “Dakar”
  • Sindhi: “ڊاڪار”
  • Sinhala: “ඩකාර්”
  • Slovak: “Dakar”
  • Slovenian: “Dakar”
  • Somali: “Dakar”
  • Somali: “Dhakar”
  • South Azerbaijani: “داکار”
  • Spanish: “Dakar”
  • Swahili: “Dakar”
  • Swedish: “Dakar”
  • Tagalog: “Dakar”
  • Tajik: “Дакар”
  • Talysh: “Dakar”
  • Tamil: “டகார்”
  • Tamil: “டக்கார்”
  • Telugu: “డాకార్”
  • Thai: “ดาการ์”
  • Tibetan: “ཌ་ཀར།”
  • Tok Pisin: “Daka”
  • Tok Pisin: “Dakar”
  • Turkish: “Dakar”
  • Turkmen: “Dakar”
  • Udmurt: “Дакар”
  • Uighur: “داكار”
  • Ukrainian: “Дакар”
  • Urdu: “ڈاکار”
  • Uzbek: “Dakar”
  • Venetian: “Dakar”
  • Veps: “Dakar”
  • Vietnamese: “Dakar”
  • Volapük: “Ndakaaru”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Dakar”
  • Welsh: “Dakar”
  • Western Frisian: “Dakar”
  • Western Mari: “Дакар”
  • Western Panjabi: “ڈا کار”
  • Wolof: “Ndakaaru”
  • Wu Chinese: “达喀尔”
  • Yiddish: “דאקאר”
  • Yoruba: “Dakar”
  • Yue Chinese: “達喀爾”
  • Zulu: “i-Dakar”
  • “Dakar”

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