Saly
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Saly (also called Sali or Saly Portudal) is a seaside resort and urban commune in Thiès Region on the Petite Côte of Senegal, south of Dakar. It is a major tourist destination in Senegal.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Saly Portudal
- Settlement.other_name
- Sali
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Commune
- Settlement.total_type
- Commune
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Senegal
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- Senegal
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Region
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Thiès
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Department
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- M'bour
- Settlement.unit_pref
- metric
- Settlement.area_total_km2
- 14.29
- Settlement.elevation_m
- 14
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2023 census
- Settlement.population_total
- 41811
- Settlement.population_density_km2
- auto
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Population
- Economy
- Social problems
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Saly (also called Sali or Saly Portudal) is a seaside resort and urban commune in Thiès Region on the Petite Côte of Senegal, south of Dakar. It is a major tourist destination in Senegal.
==History== Saly was originally a Portuguese trading post known as Porto de Ale, which became Portudal, and later Sali Portudal. It hosted Dutch merchants as well as the Portuguese by at least the late 16th century.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Saly” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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