Thiès
Sign in to saveThiès (; ; Noon: Chess) is the third largest city in Senegal with a population of 391,253 in 2023. It lies east of Dakar on the N2 road and at the junction of railway lines to Dakar, Bamako and St-Louis. It is the capital of Thiès Region and is a major industrial city.
Key facts
- Settlement.official_name
- Thiès
- Settlement.other_name
- ثيس
- Settlement.settlement_type
- City
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Thies.jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- Thiès; city centre
- Settlement.image_seal
- Blason thiès.svg
- Settlement.mapsize
- 250px
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Senegal#Africa
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Region
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Thiès Region
- Settlement.leader_title
- Mayor
- Settlement.leader_name
- Babacar Diop
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2023 census
- Settlement.population_total
- 391253
- Settlement.timezone
- GMT
- Settlement.utc_offset
- +0
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- History
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- Economy
- Education
- International relations
- Twin towns – sister cities
- Climate
- Notable residents
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Thiès (; ; Noon: Chess) is the third largest city in Senegal with a population of 391,253 in 2023. It lies east of Dakar on the N2 road and at the junction of railway lines to Dakar, Bamako and St-Louis. It is the capital of Thiès Region and is a major industrial city.
== History == Before colonization, the Thiès Plateau was a wooded frontier between the kingdoms of Cayor and Baol inhabited by the Serer-Noon, an ethnic sub-group of the Serer people. The Serer-Noon still inhabit the Thiès-Nones neighborhood of the south-west city today. They speak the Noon language, one of the Cangin languages.