Pikine
Sign in to savePikine is a city and the capital of the Pikine department, in the Dakar region in Senegal. The largest suburb of Senegalese capital Dakar, as of the 2013 Census, it had a population of 1,170,791. It is the second-largest city in Senegal, behind Dakar.
Key facts
- Settlement.official_name
- Pikine
- Settlement.settlement_type
- City
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Pikine.gif
- Settlement.mapsize
- 250px
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Senegal
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Region
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Dakar Region
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Department
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Pikine
- Settlement.area_total_km2
- 87
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2015
- Settlement.population_demonym
- Pikinois
- Settlement.population_total
- 1170791
- Settlement.population_density_km2
- auto
- Settlement.timezone
- GMT
- Settlement.utc_offset
- +0
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
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villedepikine.sn →Link to the official site · 744 chars · not written by Vinony
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- big city
- Official name
- Pikine
- Country
- Senegal
- Located in
- Pikine Department
- Population
- 764597
- Area
- 41.76
- Elevation
- 15
- Capital of
- Pikine Department
- Official website
- villedepikine.sn/website
- Image
- Pikine.gif
- Said to be same as
- Pikine Department
Show 5 more facts
- topic's main category
- Category:Pikine
- category for people born here
- Q24068375
- Commons category
- Pikine
- native label
- Pikine
- inception
- 1952-00-00
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Pikine is a city and the capital of the Pikine department, in the Dakar region in Senegal. The largest suburb of Senegalese capital Dakar, as of the 2013 Census, it had a population of 1,170,791. It is the second-largest city in Senegal, behind Dakar.
== History == Situated on a former French military base, illegal immigrants were sent to the site of Pikine in the early 1950s to ease a growing housing crisis in the Cap-Vert. Incorporated by colonial officials in 1952, the community's fast growth caused it to surpass its legal boundaries and urbanize, and had a population on 50,000 by the end of the 1950s.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Pikine” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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