Senegal
Central Senegal
Kaolack Region

Kaolack

Kaolack is a town with a population of 298,904 on the north bank of the about 100 kilometres from its mouth and the N1 road in . It is the capital of the Kaolack Region, which borders to the south.
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  • Type: City with 172,000 residents
  • Description: town and regional capital in Senegal
  • Also known as: “Kaolac” and “Kawlax”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Stade Lamine Guèye.

Stadium
is a multi-use in Kaolack, . As of 2017 it was used mostly for football matches and served as a home ground of ASC Saloum. The stadium holds 8,000 people. In 2008, one of the two continental matches took place at the stadium.

Kaolack

Latitude
14.1388° or 14° 8′ 20″ north
Longitude
-16.0764° or 16° 4′ 35″ west
Population
172,000
Elevation
7 metres (23 feet)
IATA airport code
KLC
United Nations Location Code
SN KLC
Open location code
7C654WQF+GC
Open­Street­Map ID
node 3329033430
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2250805
Wiki­data ID
Q847677
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Wolof—“Kaolack” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “كاولاك”
  • Asturian: “Kaolack”
  • Basque: “Kaolack”
  • Bengali: “কাঊলাক”
  • Bulgarian: “Каолак”
  • Catalan: “Kaolack”
  • Cebuano: “Kaolack”
  • Chinese: “考拉克”
  • Czech: “Kaolack”
  • Danish: “Kaolack”
  • Dutch: “Kaolack”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كاولاك”
  • Esperanto: “Kaolack”
  • Finnish: “Kaolack”
  • French: “Kaolack”
  • Galician: “Kaolack”
  • German: “Kaolack”
  • German: “Kawlax”
  • Greek: “Καολάκ”
  • Gujarati: “કેઓલેક”
  • Hebrew: “קאולק”
  • Hindi: “काओलाक”
  • Indonesian: “Kaolack”
  • Irish: “Kaolack”
  • Italian: “Kaolack”
  • Japanese: “カオラック”
  • Kannada: “ಕಾಲೋಕ್”
  • Korean: “카올라크”
  • Latvian: “Kaolaka”
  • Lithuanian: “Kaolack”
  • Lithuanian: “Kaolakas”
  • Malay: “Kaolack”
  • Marathi: “कॅओलैक”
  • Northern Frisian: “Kaolack”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kaolack”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kaolack”
  • Norwegian: “Kaolack”
  • Persian: “کائولاک”
  • Polish: “Kaolack”
  • Portuguese: “Kaolack”
  • Romanian: “Kaolack”
  • Russian: “Каолак”
  • Shona: “Kaolack”
  • Sinhala: “කාඕලැක්”
  • Slovak: “Kaolack”
  • Slovenian: “Kaolack”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کائولاک”
  • Spanish: “Kaolack”
  • Swahili: “Kaolack”
  • Swedish: “Kaolack”
  • Tamil: “காலோக்”
  • Telugu: “కావోలాక్”
  • Thai: “เกาลัก”
  • Turkish: “Kaolack”
  • Turkish: “Koalack”
  • Ukrainian: “Каолак”
  • Urdu: “کاولاک”
  • Uzbek: “Kaolak”
  • Venetian: “Kaolack”
  • Veps: “Kaolak”
  • Vietnamese: “Kaolack”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Kaolack”
  • Wolof: “Kawlak”
  • “Kaolack”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Kaolack”. Photo: KaaBaa, CC BY-SA 3.0.