Key facts
- Country
- Senegal
- Capital
- Dakar
- Departments
- List Dakar department Pikine department Guédiawaye department Rufisque department
- Regional president
- Abdoulaye Faye ( PDS ; since 2002)
- Total
- 547 km (211 sq mi)
- Rank
- 1st
- Density
- 7,320/km (19,000/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+0 ( GMT )
- Iso 3166 2
- SN-DK
- Communes
- 7, plus 2 communautés rurales
- Hdi 2021
- 0.607 , medium · 1st
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- region of Senegal
- Country
- Senegal
- Located in
- Senegal
- Contains
- Rufisque Department
- Capital
- Dakar
- Population
- 3896564
- Area
- 550
- Body of water
- Atlantic Ocean
- Shares border with
- Thiès Region
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- Category:Dakar region
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- Dakar Region
- language used
- Bainouk-Gunyaamolo-Gutobor
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Encyclopedic overview
Dakar region (French: Région de Dakar) is the smallest and most populated region of Senegal, encompassing the capital city of the country, Dakar, and all its suburbs along the Cap Vert peninsula, Africa's most westerly point.
Administration
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Dakar” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.