Birkelane
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| Coordinates | 14 ° 7 '42 " N , 15 ° 44' 48" W | ||
| Basic data | |||
| Country | Senegal | ||
| Kaffrine | |||
| Department | Birkelane | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | SN-KA | ||
| height | 9 m | ||
| surface | 15.8 km² | ||
| Residents | 7011 (2013) | ||
| density | 445.1 Ew. / km² | ||
Birkelane is a city in the center of Senegal . It is prefecture of the Birkelane department in the Kaffrine region . The spelling of the name is not entirely uniform in official use, but the website of the Conseil départemental produced on site will use the authoritative spelling.
Geographical location
Birkelane is located in the west of the Kaffrine region , 21 kilometers from the Kaffrine regional prefecture , on the right northern bank of the Saloum , which from here carries water all year round and meanders west on its way to the Atlantic Ocean, 110 kilometers away .
history
The place Birkelane received a train station during the expansion of the Dakar – Niger railway between Thiès and Kayes , which took place between 1907 and 1923.
From 1976 Birkelane was the seat of a communauté rurale and an arrondissement. When the latter was raised to the rank of a department, Birkelane received the legal status of a commune (city) in 2008 . The urban area is measured from the sub-prefecture
- 2.5 km north towards the old Khallou Khaye slope
- 1 km south to vallée morte
- 3 km to the east in the direction of forêt classée
- 1.5 km to the west to a line that runs at right angles from the northern border at the village of Keur Ismaïla to the southern border at vallée morte.
This results in an arithmetical urban area of 15.75 km².
population
The last censuses showed the following population figures for the city:
| year | Residents |
|---|---|
| 1988 | ... |
| 2002 | ... |
| 2013 | 7,011 |
traffic
The national road N 1 runs through Birkelane . It connects Birkelane with the port metropolis of Dakar and the cities of Mbour , Fatick , Kaolack and Kahone in the west and with Kaffrine , Malem Hodar , Koungheul , Koumpentoum and Tambacounda in the east and continues at Kidira across the Malian border to Kayes . The Dakar – Niger railway , which is important for freight traffic in the peanut basin and with neighboring Mali , runs right through Birkelane and parallel to the N1 .
Birkelane is connected to the national air transport network via the Kaolack airfield, 33 km away between Kaolack and Kahone .
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Birkelane on the Internet
- ↑ DECRET n ° 2008-748 du 10 juillet 2008 portant création de communes dans les régions de Fatick, Kaffrine, ... ( Memento of the original of 10 November 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked . Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Measure distance with google maps
