Arrondissement des Niayes

The Arrondissement des Niayes is one of the three arrondissements into which the Département Pikine is divided, which in turn is congruent with the urban area of Pikine , a metropolis of Senegal in the metropolitan region of Dakar . The arrondissement includes four communes d'arrondissement .

geography

The arrondissement is located in the northeast of the Cap-Vert peninsula on the Grande-Côte with the coastal dunes that accompany it and in the wetlands of the Niayes . It includes the northeastern boroughs of Pikine. The arrondissement has an area of ​​40.4 km².

population

The arrondissements are divided into pikines

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

Communes d'arrondissement	surface	Inhabitants 2002	Residents 2013
Yeumbeul North	8.3	104 199	168 379
Yeumbeul Sud	1.1	80 439	96 956
Malika	9.0	14 167	32 130
Keur Massar	22.0	57 253	201 653
Arrondissement together	40.4	256 058	499 118

Individual evidence

1. ^ City districts of Pikine in Monographie de Dakar 2014 page 5 of the PDF file 4.4 MB
2. ↑ 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
3. ↑ 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 Pikine with statistics on their population Page 9 of the PDF File 1.64 MB
4. ↑ ANSD: Rapport Projection de la Population du Senegal 2013-2063 (RGPHAE 2013) Figures for 2013, pages 21-22 of the PDF file 1.44 MB

Coordinates: 14 ° 46 ′ 22 "  N , 17 ° 21 ′ 33"  W.