Gorรฉe Island off Dakar is a memorial to the Atlantic slave trade and a World Heritage Site.
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Senegal
Republic of Senegal ยท Sรฉnรฉgal
Africa
ยท Western Africa
0Population
196.72Kkmยฒ of land
$1.45KGDP / person
DakarCapital
- ISO codes
- SN ยท SEN
- Density
- 83 /kmยฒ
- Languages
- French
- Currency
- West African CFA franc (XOF)
- Dial code
- +221
- Internet domain
- .sn
- Time zones
- 1
- Coastline
- Has a coast
- Map centre
- 15.1380ยฐ N, 14.7790ยฐ W
- Demonym
- Senegalese
- UN region
- Western Africa
- Economy
- Least developed region
- Income group
- Lower middle income
- Total GDP
- $23.58B
- Sovereignty
- Independent ยท UN member
- Borders
- 5
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By the numbers
How Senegal stacks up against all 242 mapped countries.
Population
71st
of 242 ยท 0.21% of world population
Land area
89th
of 242 ยท 0.13% of world land
GDP per person
201st
richest of 242 by output per person
Population density
116th
most crowded of 242
Ten facts about Senegal
The first is hand-written; the rest are worked out from this country's own figures.
Population is about 16,296,364 people, the 71st largest of the 242 countries mapped here - roughly 0.21 per cent of everyone alive.
Covers 196,722 kmยฒ, making it the 89th largest country here - about 6.4 times the size of Belgium.
Population density is about 83 people per kmยฒ.
The capital is Dakar, at 14.72ยฐ N, 17.48ยฐ W, with a metropolitan population of about 2,604,000.
Shares land borders with 5 countries: Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Mali and Mauritania.
Has its own coastline and direct access to the open sea.
Keeps a single time zone, Africa/Dakar.
The currency is the West African CFA franc (XOF, symbol Fr).
The official language is French.
Local time
Live, from PHP's IANA database.
Africa/Dakar
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UTC+00:00
Cities
The largest places we hold coordinates for. Click a row to fly the map there.
1
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Dakar
Dakar
14.7178ยฐ N, 17.4751ยฐ W
2.6M
2
Kaolack
Kaolack
14.1500ยฐ N, 16.1000ยฐ W
277.81K
3
Kaรฉdi
Matam
16.1500ยฐ N, 13.5000ยฐ W
21.66K
Land neighbours
5 countries share a border with Senegal.