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Key facts
- Country
- Senegal
- Capital
- Tambacounda
- D partements
- List Bakel Goudiry Koumpentoum Tambacounda
- Total
- 42,364 km (16,357 sq mi)
- Density
- 23.326/km (60.415/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+0 ( GMT )
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- region of Senegal
- Country
- Senegal
- Located in
- Senegal
- Contains
- Tambacounda
- Capital
- Tambacounda
- Population
- 988193
- Area
- 42706
- Shares border with
- Matam
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- language used
- Wamey
- topic's main category
- Category:Tambacounda region
- Commons category
- Tambacounda Region
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Encyclopedic overview
Tambacounda, formerly known as Sénégal Oriental, is a region of Senegal. It used to be part of the Mali Empire before the borders were created to separate Mali from Senegal. Tambacounda is physically the largest of Senegal's 14 regions, but is sparsely populated and its economy lags behind the rest of the country. The department of Kédougou was separated from Tambacounda in 2008, and became a separate region.
Departments
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tambacounda Region” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.