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Place details
- Locality
- Diourbel
- Region
- Diourbel Region
- Country
- Sénégal
- Population
- 157,554
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
Key facts
- Settlement.official_name
- Diourbel
- Settlement.other_name
- ديوربل
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Town and commune
- Settlement.total_type
- Town and commune
- Settlement.mapsize
- 250px
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Senegal
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location in Senegal
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Region
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Diourbel Region
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Department
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Diourbel
- Settlement.unit_pref
- metric
- Settlement.area_total_km2
- 31.24
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2023 census
- Settlement.population_total
- 157554
- Settlement.population_density_km2
- auto
- Settlement.timezone
- GMT
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
6 sectionsContents
- Transport
- Climate
- Twin towns – sister cities
- Notable people
- See also
- References
Diourbel (; Serer: Jurbel, Wolof: Njaaréem) is a town and urban commune in Senegal lying east of Thiès. It is known for its mosque and local groundnut industry and is the capital of the Diourbel Region. The population in 2023 was 157,554.
== Transport == Diourbel lies on the N3 road linking it to Dakar and is also served by a junction station on the Dakar-Niger Railway. Both the railway and the N3 cross the River Sine in the town.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Diourbel” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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