Thies
Thiès is the third largest city in Senegal with a population of 391,253 in 2023. It lies 72 km east of Dakar on the N2 road and at the junction of railway lines to Dakar, Bamako and St-Louis. It is the capital of Thiès Region and is a major industrial city.- Type: City with 320,000 residents
- Description: city in Senegal
- Also known as: “La Cité du Rail”, “Senegal’de yerleşim birimi”, “Thiès”, and “Ville de Thiès”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Stade Maniang Soumaré and Gare de Thiès.
Thies
- Categories: city, commune of Senegal, big city, and locality
- Location: Thies, Cap Vert-Thies, Senegal, West Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
14.7915° or 14° 47′ 29″ north
Longitude
-16.9256° or 16° 55′ 32″ west
Population
320,000
Elevation
72 metres (236 feet)
IATA airport code
DSS
Open location code
7C65Q3RF+HQ
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Wolof—“Thies” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Thiès”
- Arabic: “تييس”
- Armenian: “Թիես”
- Asturian: “Thiès”
- Azerbaijani: “Ties”
- Basque: “Thiès”
- Belarusian: “Ціес”
- Bengali: “থিইস”
- Bulgarian: “Тиес”
- Catalan: “Thiès”
- Chinese: “捷斯”
- Chinese: “提斯”
- Czech: “Thiès”
- Danish: “Thiès”
- Dutch: “Thiès”
- Esperanto: “Tieso”
- Estonian: “Thiès”
- Finnish: “Thiès”
- French: “Thiès”
- Galician: “Thiès”
- German: “Thiès”
- Greek: “Τιες”
- Gujarati: “થિઝ”
- Hebrew: “תיאס”
- Hindi: “टीस”
- Hungarian: “Thiès”
- Indonesian: “Thies”
- Indonesian: “Thiès”
- Irish: “Thiès”
- Italian: “Thiès”
- Japanese: “ティエス”
- Kannada: “ಥೀಸ್”
- Korean: “티에스”
- Latvian: “Tijesa”
- Lithuanian: “Tiesas”
- Luxembourgish: “Thiès”
- Malay: “Thies”
- Marathi: “थीस”
- Northern Frisian: “Thiès”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Thies”
- Norwegian: “Thiès”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Thiès”
- Persian: “تییس”
- Polish: “Thiès”
- Portuguese: “Thiès”
- Romanian: “Thiès”
- Russian: “Тиес”
- Scots: “Thiès”
- Shona: “Thiès”
- Sinhala: “තීස්”
- Slovak: “Thiès”
- Slovenian: “Thiès”
- South Azerbaijani: “تییس”
- Spanish: “Thiès”
- Swahili: “Thiès”
- Swedish: “Thiès”
- Tamil: “திஸ்”
- Telugu: “థీస్”
- Thai: “ทีสซูว์”
- Turkish: “Thiès”
- Ukrainian: “Тіес”
- Ukrainian: “Тієс”
- Urdu: “تھیس”
- Uzbek: “Tiyes”
- Venetian: “Thiès”
- Veps: “Ties”
- Vietnamese: “Thies”
- Waray (Philippines): “Thiès”
- Wolof: “Cees”
- “Thiès”
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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Randoulène Nord and Escale Sud.
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