Mbacké
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Mbacké (Mbàkke in Wolof) is a city and urban commune in central Senegal, located east of Dakar. It is the capital of an administrative department in the Diourbel region. Along with the nearby city of Touba, Mbacké forms an urban conurbation whose population currently stands at 1,222,275, making it Senegal's second largest agglomeration. It is connected to Dakar and Touba by the N3 road.
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Place details
- Locality
- Mbacké
- Region
- Diourbel Region
- Country
- Sénégal
- Population
- 101,451
- Timezone
- Africa/Dakar
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Key facts
- Settlement.official_name
- Mbacké
- Settlement.settlement_type
- City and commune
- Settlement.total_type
- City and commune
- Settlement.mapsize
- 250px
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Senegal
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Region
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Diourbel
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Department
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Mbacké
- Settlement.leader_title
- Mayor
- Settlement.leader_name
- Abdou Mbacke Ndao
- Settlement.unit_pref
- metric
- Settlement.area_total_km2
- 18.37
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2023 census
- Settlement.population_total
- 101451
- Settlement.population_density_km2
- auto
- Settlement.elevation_m
- 47
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- city
- Country
- Senegal
- Located in
- Mbacké Department
- Elevation
- 47
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Encyclopedic overview
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- History
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Mbacké (Mbàkke in Wolof) is a city and urban commune in central Senegal, located east of Dakar. It is the capital of an administrative department in the Diourbel region. Along with the nearby city of Touba, Mbacké forms an urban conurbation whose population currently stands at 1,222,275, making it Senegal's second largest agglomeration. It is connected to Dakar and Touba by the N3 road.
==History== Mbacké, also known as Mbacké-Baol, was founded in the sparsely populated wilderness of Eastern Baol in 1796 by Mame Maram Muhammad al-Khayri (d. 1802), great-grandfather of Cheikh Ahmadou Bamba Mbacké. Mame Maram was a reputed Muslim jurisconsult. He received the land grant to establish Mbacké from the king of Baol, Amari Ngoné Ndella Fall, who was also king of neighboring Cayor.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mbacké” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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