Arrondissement des Almadies

The Arrondissement des Almadies is one of the four arrondissements into which the Dakar department is divided, which in turn is congruent with the urban area of Dakar , the capital of Senegal . The arrondissement includes four communes d'arrondissement .

geography

The arrondissement is located in the northwest of the Cap-Vert peninsula at the Pointe des Almadies , making it the westernmost arrondissement of Dakar. The area is enclosed by the Atlantic coast from north, west and south . It also includes the area of the Dakar-Yoff-Léopold Sédar Senghor airport . The arrondissement has an area of ​​30.1 km².

population

The 19th Communes d'arrondissement in Dakar

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

Communes d'arrondissement	Inhabitants 2002	Residents 2013
Ouakam	43 188	74 692
Ngor	10 309	17 383
Yoff	53 035	89 442
Mermoz-Sacré Cœur	23 602	29 798
Arrondissement together	130 134	211 314

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Estimation of the population of Dakar par collectivité locale en 2004 Area of ​​the city districts on page 166 of the PDF file 1.12 MB
2. ↑ ANSD: Résultats préliminaires du Troisième Recensement Général de la Population et de l'Habitat du Sénégal de 2002 (RGPH-III) ( Memento of September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) City districts of Dakar with statistics on their population Page 8 of the PDF File 1.64 MB
3. ↑ ANSD: Rapport Projection de la Population du Senegal 2013–2063 (RGPHAE 2013) figures for 2013, pages 20–21 of the PDF file 1.44 MB

Coordinates: 14 ° 43 ′ 30 ″  N , 17 ° 29 ′ 0 ″  W.