Senegal
Northern Senegal
Saint-Louis Region

Saint-Louis

Saint-Louis is a city and a world heritage site on the Grande Cote in , at the mouth of Senegal River which serves as the border with . With some 254,000 inhabitants, it's the country's eighth largest city.
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  • Type: City with 176,000 residents
  • Description: city and regional capital in Senegal
  • Also known as: “Ndar”, “Saint Louis”, “Saint-Louis, Senegal”, “SanLuis”, “St-Louis”, and “St. Louis”

Places of Interest

Highlights include St. Louis Cathedral and Eglise Notre-Dame-de-Lourdes, Saint-Louis.

Church
Photo: LamourYves, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Cathedral of St. Louis, located in Saint-Louis, Senegal, is the seat of the Diocese of St-Louis du Sénégal. The nineteenth-century cathedral church is located on the place d'armes in the southern district of Saint-Louis Island.

Church
Photo: HaguardDuNord, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a church.

School
Photo: Ventdelouest, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a school.

Saint-Louis

Latitude
16.028° or 16° 1′ 41″ north
Longitude
-16.5049° or 16° 30′ 18″ west
Population
176,000
Elevation
8 metres (26 feet)
IATA airport code
XLS
United Nations Location Code
SN XLS
Open location code
7C852FHW+63
Open­Street­Map ID
node 249167293
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2246452
Wiki­data ID
Q273779
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Wolof—“Saint-Louis” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “سانت لويس”
  • Armenian: “Սեն Լուի”
  • Asturian: “Saint-Louis”
  • Azerbaijani: “Sen-Lui”
  • Basque: “Saint-Louis”
  • Belarusian: “Сен-Луі (Сенегал)”
  • Belarusian: “Сен-Луі”
  • Belarusian: “Сэн-Люі”
  • Bengali: “সেন্ট লুই”
  • Bulgarian: “Сен-Луи”
  • Catalan: “Saint-Louis”
  • Cebuano: “Saint-Louis”
  • Chinese: “圣路易”
  • Chinese: “圣路易斯”
  • Chinese: “聖路易”
  • Croatian: “Saint-Louis”
  • Czech: “Ndar”
  • Czech: “Saint-Louis”
  • Danish: “Saint-Louis”
  • Dutch: “Saint Louis Senegal”
  • Dutch: “Saint Louis”
  • Dutch: “Saint-Louis Senegal”
  • Dutch: “Saint-Louis”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “سانت لويس”
  • Esperanto: “Ndar”
  • Esperanto: “Saint Louis”
  • Esperanto: “Saint-Louis”
  • Esperanto: “Sankt-Luizo”
  • Finnish: “Saint-Louis”
  • French: “Ndar”
  • French: “Saint-Louis du Sénégal”
  • French: “Saint-Louis-du-Sénégal”
  • French: “Saint-louis”
  • French: “Saint-Louis”
  • Fulah: “Ndar”
  • Georgian: “სენ-ლუი”
  • German: “Ndar”
  • German: “Saint-Louis”
  • Greek: “Νταρ”
  • Greek: “Σαιν-Λουί-ντυ-Σενεγκάλ”
  • Greek: “Σαιν-Λουί”
  • Guarani: “Saint Louis”
  • Hebrew: “סן לואי”
  • Hebrew: “סן-לואי”
  • Hindi: “सेन्ट लुईस द्वीप”
  • Indonesian: “Saint-Louis, Senegal”
  • Indonesian: “Saint-Louis”
  • Irish: “Saint-Louis”
  • Italian: “Saint-Louis”
  • Japanese: “サン＝ルイ”
  • Japanese: “サンルイ”
  • Japanese: “ンダール”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Sen-lui”
  • Korean: “생루이”
  • Lithuanian: “Sen Lui”
  • Lithuanian: “Sen Luji”
  • Maithili: “सेन्ट-लोइस, सेनेगल”
  • Malagasy: “Saint-Louis (Senegaly)”
  • Malagasy: “Saint-Louis”
  • Maltese: “Gżira ta‘ Saint-Louis”
  • Maltese: “Gżira ta’ Saint-Louis”
  • Maltese: “Ndar”
  • Maltese: “Saint Louis”
  • Maltese: “Saint-Louis”
  • Moksha: “Сэн-Луи”
  • Mongolian: “Сен-Луи”
  • Mongolian: “Сенегалын Сен-Луи”
  • Nepali: “सेन्ट-लोइस, सेनेगल”
  • Nepali: “सेन्ट-लोइस”
  • Northern Frisian: “Saint-Louis”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Saint-Louis”
  • Norwegian: “Saint-Louis”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Ndar”
  • Persian: “سن‌لوئی”
  • Polish: “Saint Louis”
  • Polish: “Saint-Louis”
  • Portuguese: “Ilha de Saint Louis”
  • Portuguese: “Saint Louis”
  • Portuguese: “Saint-Louis”
  • Portuguese: “São Luís”
  • Romanian: “Ndar”
  • Romanian: “Saint-Louis, Senegal”
  • Romanian: “Saint-Louis”
  • Russian: “Сен-Луи”
  • Scots: “Saint-Louis”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Saint-Louis, Senegal”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Saint-Louis”
  • Shona: “Saint-Louis, Senegal”
  • Shona: “Saint-Louis”
  • Slovak: “Saint-Louis”
  • Slovenian: “Saint-Louis, Senegal”
  • Slovenian: “Saint-Louis”
  • Spanish: “Isla de San Luis”
  • Spanish: “Saint Louis”
  • Spanish: “Saint-Louis du Senegal”
  • Spanish: “Saint-Louis du Sénégal”
  • Spanish: “Saint-Louis”
  • Swahili: “Saint-Louis”
  • Swedish: “Ndar”
  • Swedish: “Saint Louis”
  • Swedish: “Saint-Louis du Sénégal”
  • Swedish: “Saint-Louis”
  • Turkish: “Saint Louis”
  • Turkish: “Saint-Louis, Senegal”
  • Ukrainian: “Сен-Луї”
  • Ukrainian: “Сент-Луї”
  • Urdu: “سینٹ-لوئیس، سینیگال”
  • Urdu: “سینٹ-لوئیس”
  • Uzbek: “Sen-lui”
  • Venetian: “Saint-Louis”
  • Veps: “Sen Lui”
  • Vietnamese: “Saint-Louis, Sénégal”
  • Vietnamese: “Saint-Louis”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Saint-Louis, Senegal”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Saint-Louis”
  • Welsh: “Saint-Louis, Senegal”
  • Welsh: “Saint-Louis”
  • Wolof: “N’Dar”
  • Wolof: “Ndar”
  • “Saint-Louis”

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