Key facts
- Country
- Senegal
- Capital
- Kolda
- D partements
- List Kolda Médina Yoro Foulah Vélingara
- Total
- 13,771 km (5,317 sq mi)
- Density
- 66.554/km (172.37/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+0 ( GMT )
- Hdi 2017
- 0.443 , low · 7th
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Encyclopedic overview
Kolda is a region of Senegal (regional capitals have the same name as their respective regions). It is also referred to historically and popularly as Haute Casamance.
It is one of the 14 regions of the country and is located in the south. It shares borders with Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, The Gambia and its fellow regions of Sédhiou and Tambacounda.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kolda” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.