Ziguinchor
Ziguinchor is the capital of the Ziguinchor Region, and the chief town of the Casamance area of Senegal, lying at the mouth of the Casamance River. It has a population of 214,874.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: City with 230,000 residents
- Description: city and regional capital in Senegal
- Also known as: “Zighinkor”, “Zigiunchor”, and “Zinguinhor”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Stade Aline Sitoe Diatta.
Stade Aline Sitoe Diatta
Stadium
Stade Aline Sitoe Diatta is a multi-use stadium in Ziguinchor, Senegal. It was named after Aline Sitoe Diatta, a Diola woman regarded by many as the only woman who stood against the colonialist push into Casamance.
Ziguinchor
- Categories: commune of Senegal, big city, and locality
- Location: Ziguinchor, Casamance, Senegal, West Africa, Africa
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Latitude
12.5635° or 12° 33′ 49″ northLongitude
-16.2725° or 16° 16′ 21″ westPopulation
230,000Elevation
19 metres (62 feet)IATA airport code
ZIGUnited Nations Location Code
SN ZIGOpen location code
7C45HP7H+92OpenStreetMap ID
node 2281987760OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
2243940Wikidata ID
Q202776
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Waray—“Ziguinchor” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “زيجوينكور”
- Arabic: “زيغنشور”
- Arabic: “زيغينشور”
- Armenian: “Զիգինշոր (քաղաք)”
- Armenian: “Զիգինշոր”
- Asturian: “Ziguinchor”
- Basque: “Ziguinchor”
- Bengali: “জিগুইঞ্চর”
- Bulgarian: “Зигиншор”
- Catalan: “Ziguinchor”
- Cebuano: “Ziguinchor (kapital sa rehiyon)”
- Cebuano: “Ziguinchor”
- Chinese: “济金绍尔”
- Czech: “Ziguinchor”
- Danish: “Ziguinchor”
- Dutch: “Ziguinchor”
- Egyptian Arabic: “زيجنشور”
- Esperanto: “Ziginĉor”
- Finnish: “Ziguinchor”
- French: “Ziguinchor”
- Galician: “Ziguinchor”
- German: “Ziguinchor”
- Greek: “Ζιγκινσόρ”
- Hebrew: “זיגינשור”
- Hungarian: “Ziguinchor”
- Indonesian: “Ziguinchor”
- Irish: “Ziguinchor”
- Italian: “Ziguinchor”
- Japanese: “ジガンショール”
- Korean: “지갱쇼르”
- Korean: “지긴쇼르”
- Lithuanian: “Ziginšoras”
- Luxembourgish: “Ziguinchor”
- Northern Frisian: “Ziguinchor”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Ziguinchor”
- Norwegian: “Ziguinchor”
- Panjabi: “ਜ਼ਿਗਿਨਕੋਰ”
- Persian: “زیگینچور”
- Polish: “Ziguinchor”
- Portuguese: “Ziguinchor”
- Romanian: “Ziguinchor”
- Russian: “Зигиншор”
- Shona: “Ziguinchor”
- Slovak: “Ziguinchor”
- Slovenian: “Ziguinchor”
- Spanish: “Ziguinchor”
- Swahili: “Ziguinchor”
- Swedish: “Ziguinchor”
- Thai: “ซีเกงชอร์”
- Ukrainian: “Зігіншор”
- Urdu: “زیگینچور”
- Venetian: “Ziguinchor”
- Veps: “Ziginšor”
- Vietnamese: “Ziguinchor”
- Waray (Philippines): “Ziguinchor”
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