Guédiawaye

Ville de Guédiawaye Guédiawaye
Coordinates	14 ° 46 '58 "  N , 17 ° 22' 34"  W Coordinates: 14 ° 46 '58 "  N , 17 ° 22' 34"  W.
Basic data
Country	Senegal
region	Dakar
Department	Guédiawaye
height	16 m
surface	12.9 km²
Residents	329,659 (2013)
density	25,555  Ew. / km²
Website	www.villedeguediawaye.com (French)
Location Guédiawayes in the Dakar region

Guédiawaye than Ville de Guédiawaye a major city in the Dakar region , the most populous region of the country. A separate department was created for the city, the Guédiawaye department as one of 45 departments that make up Senegal and one of four departments that make up the metropolitan region of Dakar . The department consists of only one arrondissement. Guédiawaye was planned and built as a satellite town on the outskirts of Dakar and in the northwest of Pikines in the dune area on the north bank of the Cap-Vert peninsula .

population

The last censuses showed the following population figures for the city:

year	Residents
1988	...
2002	258,370
2013	329,658

As in the entire capital region, there was also a strong increase in population here. The population density in the urban area takes a nationwide top position.

structure

The five communes d'arrondissement in Guédiawaye

The department has an area of ​​12.9 km² and consists only of the arrondissement Guédiawaye, which is divided into five communes d'arrondissement:

Commune d'Arrondissement	Residents 2013
Golf South	92 345
Sam Notaire	78 660
Ndiarème Limamoulaye	35 171
Wakhinane Nimzatt	89 721
Médina Gounass	33 762
together	329 659

The districts are listed in the order of their location by the sea from west to east; Médina Gounass is the only inland district without a coastline.

history

Guédiawaye was first founded in 1972 as communauté rurale and received due to the steady population growth in 1990 the status of commune and 1996 the attribute Ville , but was still part of the Pikine department . On February 21, 2002, a separate department was established for the city of Guédiawaye. Since then, Guédiawaye has been on an organizational level with the neighboring megacities of Dakar and Pikine.

Culture

Rugby is a popular sport; the local first division soccer club is called FC Guédiawaye and the Senegalese national soccer player Tony Sylva as well as Abdoulaye Diakhaté and Diafra Sakho are from the city.

Town twinning

•  Birmingham, Alabama , United States

Personalities

• Tony Sylva (* 1975), soccer goalkeeper
• Diafra Sakho (* 1989), football player

See also

• List of cities in Senegal

Individual evidence

1. ↑ L'AUP en Afrique de l'Ouest: les villes de Dakar et Cotonou, limites et potentialités, page 112 of the PDF file 5.65 MB
2. ^ Service Régional de la Statistique et de la Démographie de Dakar: Situation economique et sociale regional 2013, pages 22, 23 and 129 of the PDF file 1.44 MB
3. ^ Monograph de Dakar. October 2014 Carte de la Région de Dakar: Page 5 of the PDF file 4.50 MB
4. ↑ Guediawaye Emergent: On the history of Guédiawaye ( Memento from March 26, 2017 in the Internet Archive )

Web links

• La Ville de Guédiawaye website ( Memento of 9 September 2009 in the Internet Archive )
• Links to culture, sport etc. (French)
• Detailed administration map of the Dakar and Guédiawayes region (French)
• Départment Guédiawaye at Geonames
• Guédiawaye at Geonames