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Senegal

Senegal is a country in . Formerly a French colony, it is the westernmost country in the Old World. Senegal is an excellent destination for anyone interested in exploring and learning about African culture.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Dakar and Saint-Louis.

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

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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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is a national park in the of in south eastern Senegal near the Guinea border. It's been inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List.

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as Cap Vert-Thies and Tambacounda Region.

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is a region in Senegal. It includes the Cap-Vert Peninsula and the administrative region of Thies.

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Tambacounda, formerly known as Sénégal Oriental, is a region of Senegal. It used to be part of the Mali Empire before the borders were created to separate Mali from Senegal.

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is a region in Senegal.

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is a region in Senegal composed of the administrative regions of St. Louis, Louga, and Matam.

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The is the region of Senegal south of The Gambia. Centered on the River, the region is soaked with mangrove forests, speckled with charming villages, and lined with the best beaches in all of Senegal.

Senegal

Latitude of center
14.67° or 14° 40′ 12″ north
Longitude of center
-14.557° or 14° 33′ 25″ west
Population
12,600,000
Area
196,190 km² (75,749 miles²)
Elevation
53 metres (174 feet)
Capital
Currency
Franc (XOF)
Phone code
.sn
Internet domain
221
Open­Street­Map ID
node 432425075
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­country
Geo­Names ID
2245662
Wiki­data ID
Q1041
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In Other Languages

From Abkhazian to Zulu—“Senegal” goes by many names.
  • Abkhazian: “Ареспублика Сенегал”
  • Abkhazian: “Сенегал”
  • Achinese: “Senegal”
  • Adyghe: “Сенегал”
  • Afrikaans: “Senegal”
  • Akan: “Senegal”
  • Albanian: “Senegal”
  • Albanian: “Senegali”
  • Amharic: “ሴኔጋል”
  • Amis: “Senegal”
  • Angika: “सेनेगल”
  • Arabic: “السنغال”
  • Arabic: “السنيغال”
  • Arabic: “السينغال”
  • Arabic: “السينيغال”
  • Arabic: “جمهورية السنغال”
  • Arabic: “سنغال”
  • Arabic: “سنغالي”
  • Arabic: “سينيغال”
  • Aragonese: “Senegal”
  • Armenian: “Սենեգալ”
  • Arpitan: “Sènègal”
  • Assamese: “চেনেগাল”
  • Asturian: “République du Sénégal”
  • Asturian: “Senegal”
  • Atayal: “Senegal”
  • Azerbaijani: “Seneqal”
  • Balinese: “Senegal”
  • Bambara: “Senegal”
  • Bambara: “Senegali”
  • Banjar: “Senegal”
  • Bashkir: “Сенегал”
  • Basque: “Senegal”
  • Bavarian: “Senegal”
  • Belarusian: “Сенегал”
  • Belarusian: “Сэнэгал”
  • Bengali: “সেনেগাল”
  • Betawi: “Sénégal”
  • Bhojpuri: “सेनेगल”
  • Bishnupriya: “সেনেগাল”
  • Bislama: “Senegal”
  • Bosnian: “Senegal”
  • Breton: “Senegal”
  • Bulgarian: “Сенегал”
  • Burmese: “ဆီနီဂေါ”
  • Burmese: “ဆီနီဂေါနိုင်ငံ”
  • Catalan: “República del Senegal”
  • Catalan: “Senegal”
  • Cebuano: “Senegal”
  • Central Bikol: “Senegal”
  • Central Kanuri: “Senegal”
  • Central Kurdish: “سێنیگال”
  • Chavacano: “Senegal”
  • Chechen: “Сенегал”
  • Chinese: “Sàinèijiāěr”
  • Chinese: “Senegal”
  • Chinese: “塞內加爾”
  • Chinese: “塞内加尔 / 塞內加爾”
  • Chinese: “塞内加尔”
  • Chinese: “塞内加尔共和国”
  • Chuvash: “Сенегал”
  • Cornish: “Senegal”
  • Corsican: “Republica di u Senegale”
  • Corsican: “Republica di u Senegallu”
  • Corsican: “Senegale”
  • Corsican: “Senegallu”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Senegal”
  • Croatian: “Senegal”
  • Czech: “Senegal”
  • Dagbani: “Senegal”
  • Danish: “Senegal”
  • Dhivehi: “ސެނެގާލް”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Senegal”
  • Dotyali: “सेनेगल”
  • Dutch: “Republiek Senegal”
  • Dutch: “SEN”
  • Dutch: “Senegal”
  • Dutch: “SN”
  • Dzongkha: “སེ་ནི་གྷལ”
  • Dzongkha: “སེ་ནེ་ཀལ།”
  • Eastern Mari: “Сенегал”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “سينيجال”
  • Esperanto: “Respubliko Senegalo”
  • Esperanto: “Senegalo”
  • Esperanto: “SN”
  • Estonian: “Senegal”
  • Estonian: “Senegali Vabariik”
  • Ewe: “Senegal nutome”
  • Ewe: “Senegal”
  • Extremaduran: “Senegal”
  • Farefare: “Senegal”
  • Faroese: “Senegal”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Senegal”
  • Finnish: “Senegal”
  • Finnish: “Senegalin tasavalta”
  • Fon: “Senegalto”
  • Fon: “Senegaltò”
  • French: “la République du Sénégal”
  • French: “République du Sénégal”
  • French: “Sén.”
  • French: “Senegal”
  • French: “Sénégal”
  • French: “SN”
  • Fulah: “Senegaal”
  • Fulah: “Senegal”
  • Gagauz: “Senegal”
  • Galician: “Senegal”
  • Ganda: “Senegaalo”
  • Ganda: “Senegal”
  • Georgian: “სენეგალი”
  • German: “Republik Senegal”
  • German: “Senegal”
  • German: “Sénégal”
  • German: “sn”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Republic of Senegal”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Senegal”
  • Gilaki: “سنگال”
  • Greek: “Δημοκρατία της Σενέγαλης”
  • Greek: “Σενεγάλη”
  • Guarani: “Senegal”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Sénégal”
  • Gujarati: “સેનેગલ”
  • Haitian: “Senegal”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Senegal”
  • Hausa: “Sanigal”
  • Hausa: “Senegal”
  • Hebrew: “סנגאל”
  • Hebrew: “סנגל”
  • Hindi: “सेनेगल”
  • Hungarian: “Szenegál”
  • Hungarian: “Szenegáli Köztársaság”
  • Icelandic: “Senegal”
  • Ido: “Senegal”
  • Igbo: “Senegal”
  • Iloko: “Senegal”
  • Inari Sami: “Senegal täsiväldi”
  • Inari Sami: “Senegal”
  • Indonesian: “Senegal”
  • Interlingua: “Senegal”
  • Interlingue: “Senegal”
  • Irish: “an tSeineagáil”
  • Irish: “An tSeineagáil”
  • Italian: “Senegal”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Senigal”
  • Japanese: “セネガル”
  • Japanese: “セネガル共和国”
  • Javanese: “Sénégal”
  • Kabiyè: “Senegaalɩ”
  • Kabyle: “Senegal”
  • Kabyle: “Sinigal”
  • Kalaallisut: “Senegal”
  • Kalmyk: “Сенегалмудин Орн”
  • Kannada: “ಸೆನೆಗಲ್”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Senegal”
  • Kashmiri: “سینیگَل”
  • Kazakh: “Сенегал”
  • Khmer: “សេណេហ្គាល់”
  • Kikuyu: “Senegal”
  • Kikuyu: “Senegali”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Senegali”
  • Kirghiz: “Сенегал”
  • Komering: “Senegal”
  • Kongo: “Senangale”
  • Korean: “세네갈”
  • Kotava: “Senegala”
  • Kurdish: “Senegal”
  • Ladin: “Senegal”
  • Ladino: “Senegal”
  • Lao: “ເຊນີໂກລ”
  • Lao: “ເຊເນການ”
  • Lao: “ປະເທດເຊເນການ”
  • Latin: “Senegalia”
  • Latvian: “Senegāla”
  • Ligurian: “Senegal”
  • Limburgan: “Senegal”
  • Lingala: “Senegale”
  • Lingala: “Senegalɛ”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Senegal”
  • Literary Chinese: “塞內加爾”
  • Lithuanian: “Senegalas”
  • Livvi: “Senegalu”
  • Lojban: “senegal”
  • Lombard: “Senegal”
  • Low German: “Senegal”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Senegal”
  • Luba-Katanga: “Senegale”
  • Luxembourgish: “Senegal”
  • Macedonian: “Сенегал”
  • Malagasy: “Senegal”
  • Malagasy: “Senegala”
  • Malagasy: “Senegaly”
  • Malay: “Senegal”
  • Malayalam: “സെനഗൽ”
  • Malayalam: “സെനെഗൽ”
  • Maltese: “is-Senegal”
  • Maltese: “Repubblika tas-Senegal”
  • Maltese: “Senegal”
  • Manipuri: “ꯁꯦꯅꯦꯒꯜ”
  • Manx: “Yn Tenegaal”
  • Maori: “Henekara”
  • Marathi: “सेनेगल”
  • Marathi: “सेनेगाल”
  • Mazanderani: “سنگال”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Senegal”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Senegal”
  • Minangkabau: “Senegal”
  • Mingrelian: “სენეგალი”
  • Mirandese: “Senegal”
  • Moksha: “Сэнэгал”
  • Mongolian: “Сенегал”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “السينيݣال”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “سينيڭال”
  • N'Ko: “ߛߣߍ߬ߜ߭ߊ߯ߟߌ߫”
  • N'Ko: “ߛߣߍ߬ߞߊߟߌ߫”
  • Nauru: “Senegal”
  • Neapolitan: “Senegal”
  • Nepali: “सेनेगल”
  • Newari: “सेनेगल”
  • North Ndebele: “Senegali”
  • Northern Frisian: “Seenegal”
  • Northern Luri: “سنگال”
  • Northern Sami: “Senegal dásseváldi”
  • Northern Sami: “Senegal”
  • Northern Sami: “Senegala dásseváldi”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Republikken Senegal”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Senegal”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Senegal”
  • Norwegian: “Senegal”
  • Novial: “Senegal”
  • Obolo: “Senegal”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Senegal”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Senegal”
  • Oriya: “ସେନେଗାଲ”
  • Oriya: “ସେନେଗାଲ୍”
  • Oromo: “Senegaal”
  • Ossetian: “Сенегал”
  • Pali: “सेनेगल”
  • Pampanga: “Senegal”
  • Panjabi: “ਸੇਨੇਗਲ”
  • Papiamento: “Senegal”
  • Pedi: “Senegal”
  • Persian: “سنگال”
  • Persian: “سنیگال”
  • Piemontese: “Senegal”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Senegaal”
  • Polish: “Senegal”
  • Portuguese: “República do Senegal”
  • Portuguese: “Senegal”
  • Pushto: “سينيګال”
  • Pushto: “سېنېګال”
  • Quechua: “Senegal”
  • Quechua: “Sinigal”
  • Quechua: “Siniqal”
  • Romanian: “Senegal”
  • Romansh: “Senegal”
  • Rundi: “Senegali”
  • Russia Buriat: “Сенегал”
  • Russian: “Республика Сенегал”
  • Russian: “Сенегал”
  • Rusyn: “Сенеґал”
  • Sakizaya: “Senegal”
  • Samoan: “Senegal”
  • Samogitian: “Senegals”
  • Sango: “Senegäle”
  • Sanskrit: “सेनेगल”
  • Santali: “ᱥᱮᱱᱮᱜᱟᱞ”
  • Sardinian: “Senegal”
  • Sardinian: “Senegàl”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Senegal”
  • Scots: “Senegal”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Seanagal”
  • Serbian: “Senegal”
  • Serbian: “sn”
  • Serbian: “Република Сенегал”
  • Serbian: “Сенегал”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Senegal”
  • Shan: “မိူင်းသီႇၼီႇၵႃႇ”
  • Shona: “Senegal”
  • Shona: “Senegari”
  • Sicilian: “Senegal”
  • Sicilian: “Senegallu”
  • Silesian: “Synegal”
  • Sindhi: “سينيگال”
  • Sinhala: “සෙනගල්”
  • Sinhala: “සෙනගාලය”
  • Skolt Sami: “Senegaal tääʹssväʹldd”
  • Skolt Sami: “Senegal”
  • Slovak: “Senegal”
  • Slovak: “Senegalská republika”
  • Slovenian: “Senegal”
  • Somali: “Senegaal”
  • Somali: “Sinigaal”
  • South Azerbaijani: “سنقال”
  • South Ndebele: “Senegal”
  • Southern Dagaare: “Senegal”
  • Southern Sotho: “Senegal”
  • Spanish: “Republica de Senegal”
  • Spanish: “República de Senegal”
  • Spanish: “Senegal”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⵙⵉⵏⵉⴳⴰⵍ”
  • Sundanese: “Sénégal”
  • Swahili: “Senegal”
  • Swahili: “Senegali”
  • Swedish: “Republiken Senegal”
  • Swedish: “Senegal”
  • Swiss German: “Senegal”
  • Tachelhit: “Sinigal”
  • Tagalog: “Senegal”
  • Tajik: “Сенегал”
  • Talysh: “Senegal”
  • Talysh: “Seneqal”
  • Tamil: “செனிகல்”
  • Tamil: “செனெகல்”
  • Taroko: “Senegal”
  • Tatar: “Сенегал”
  • Telugu: “సెనెగల్”
  • Thai: “เซเนกัล”
  • Thai: “ประเทศเซเนกัล”
  • Tibetan: “སི་ནི་གཱལ།”
  • Tibetan: “སེ་ནི་གྷལ།”
  • Tigrinya: “ሴኔጋል”
  • Tok Pisin: “Senegal”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Senekalo”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Senegal”
  • Tsonga: “Senegal”
  • Tumbuka: “Charu cha Senegal”
  • Tumbuka: “Republic of Senegal”
  • Tumbuka: “Senegal”
  • Tunisian Arabic: “السنيڨال”
  • Turkish: “Senegal”
  • Turkmen: “Senegal”
  • Twi: “Senegal”
  • Tyap: “Ri̱pobi̱lik Senegat”
  • Tyap: “Senegat”
  • Udmurt: “Сенегал”
  • Uighur: “سېنېگال”
  • Ukrainian: “Сенегал”
  • Ukrainian: “Сенеґал”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Senegal”
  • Urdu: “سینیگال”
  • Urdu: “سینیگل”
  • Uzbek: “Senegal”
  • Venetian: “Senegal”
  • Venetian: “Sènegal”
  • Veps: “Senegal”
  • Vietnamese: “Cộng hoà Senegal”
  • Vietnamese: “Cộng hoà Sénégal”
  • Vietnamese: “Cộng hòa Senegal”
  • Vietnamese: “Cộng hòa Sénégal”
  • Vietnamese: “Senegal”
  • Vietnamese: “Sénégal”
  • Vietnamese: “Xê-nê-gan (Senegal)”
  • Vietnamese: “Xê-nê-gan”
  • Vlax Romani: “Senegal”
  • Volapük: “Senegalän”
  • Võro: “Senegal”
  • Walloon: “Senegal”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Senegal”
  • Welsh: “Gweriniaeth Senegal”
  • Welsh: “République du Sénégal”
  • Welsh: “Senegal”
  • Welsh: “Sénégal”
  • Welsh: “sn”
  • Western Frisian: “Senegal”
  • Western Mari: “Сенегал”
  • Western Panjabi: “سینیگال”
  • Wolof: “Senegaal”
  • Wu Chinese: “塞內加爾”
  • Yakut: “Сенегал”
  • Yiddish: “סענעגאל”
  • Yiddish: “סענעגאַל”
  • Yoruba: “Sẹnẹga”
  • Yoruba: “Senegal”
  • Yoruba: “Sẹ̀nẹ̀gàl”
  • Yue Chinese: “塞內加爾”
  • Zeeuws: “Senegal”
  • Zeeuws: “Senehal”
  • Zhuang: “Senegal”
  • Zulu: “i-Senegal”
  • Zulu: “ISenegal”
  • “ma Seneka”
  • “Senegal”
  • “Senegals”
  • “सेनेगल”

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