Touba
Touba is a city in central Senegal, part of Diourbel Region and Mbacké district. With a population of 1,120,824 in 2023, it is the second most populated Senegalese city after Dakar.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: City with 1,120,000 residents
- Description: city in Senegal
- Also known as: “Touba, Senegal”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Great Mosque of Touba.
Great Mosque of Touba
Hospital
Photo: John Crane, CC BY 2.0.
The Great Mosque of Touba is a mosque in Touba, Senegal. It was founded by Ahmad Bamba in 1887 and completed in 1963. Bamba died in 1927 and was interred inside the mosque.
Touba
- Category: locality
- Location: Diourbel Region, Central Senegal, Senegal, West Africa, Africa
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Latitude
14.8646° or 14° 51′ 52″ northLongitude
-15.876° or 15° 52′ 34″ westPopulation
1,120,000Elevation
46 metres (151 feet)United Nations Location Code
SN TOUOpen location code
7C66V47F+RHOpenStreetMap ID
node 293437934OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Wolof—“Touba” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Touba”
- Arabic: “توبا”
- Arabic: “طوبى”
- Armenian: “Տուբա”
- Asturian: “Touba”
- Basque: “Touba”
- Belarusian: “Туба”
- Bengali: “তুবা”
- Catalan: “Touba”
- Cebuano: “Touba”
- Chinese: “图巴”
- Chinese: “圖巴”
- Czech: “Touba (Senegal)”
- Czech: “Touba”
- Danish: “Touba”
- Dutch: “Touba”
- Esperanto: “Tuba”
- Finnish: “Touba”
- French: “Touba”
- German: “Touba”
- Greek: “Τούμπα”
- Gujarati: “તુબા”
- Hausa: “Touba, Senegal”
- Hausa: “Touba”
- Hebrew: “טובא”
- Hebrew: “טובה”
- Hindi: “टूबा”
- Indonesian: “Touba”
- Italian: “Touba”
- Japanese: “トゥーバ”
- Kannada: “ಟೌಬ”
- Korean: “투바”
- Latvian: “Tuba”
- Lithuanian: “Tuba”
- Malay: “Touba, Senegal”
- Malay: “Touba”
- Marathi: “तुबा, सेनेगल”
- N'Ko: “ߕߎߓߊ߫”
- Northern Frisian: “Touba”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Touba”
- Norwegian: “Touba”
- Persian: “طوبی”
- Polish: “Touba”
- Portuguese: “Touba”
- Romanian: “Touba, Senegal”
- Romanian: “Touba”
- Russian: “Туба”
- Shona: “Touba, Senegal”
- Shona: “Touba”
- Sinhala: “ටොබා ,සෙනගාලය”
- Slovenian: “Touba”
- Spanish: “Touba”
- Swahili: “Touba, Senegal”
- Swahili: “Touba”
- Swedish: “Touba”
- Tamil: “டௌப, செனெகல்”
- Telugu: “తౌబా”
- Thai: “ทัวบา”
- Turkish: “Touba, Senegal”
- Turkish: “Touba”
- Ukrainian: “Туба”
- Urdu: “توبا، سینیگال”
- Urdu: “توبا”
- Veps: “Tub”
- Vietnamese: “Touba”
- Waray (Philippines): “Touba”
- Wolof: “Tuubaa”
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