Diamaguène-Sicap Mbao
Diamaguène-Sicap Mbao Commune d'arrondissement Diamaguène-Sicap Mbao |
|
---|---|
Coordinates | 14 ° 44 ′ 54 ″ N , 17 ° 21 ′ 8 ″ W |
![]() |
|
Basic data | |
Country | Senegal |
Dakar | |
Department | Pikins |
ISO 3166-2 | SN-DK |
Arrondissement | Arrondissement de Thiaroye |
height | 9 m |
surface | 7.3 km² |
Residents | 128,512 (2013) |
density | 17,604.4 Ew. / km² |
Diamaguène-Sicap Mbao is one of the 16 districts (Communes d'arrondissement du Sénégal) of Pikine , the largest city in Senegal even before the capital Dakar .
geography
Diamaguène-Sicap Mbao is located in the southeast of the bottleneck of the Cap-Vert peninsula on both sides of Autoroute 1 and between the Dakar-Niger railway in the north and the Forêt classée de Mbao (FCM) in the east, one of the most threatened by urbanization, but still the largest Green lung of the metropolitan region of Dakar, as well as that of the Baie de Hann in the south. The municipality has an area of 7.3 km².
The national road N 1 divides the city district into two roughly rectangular halves in the north-west and south-east. In the northwest between the N1 and the railway line are the densely populated districts of Diamaguène and Sicap Mbao , while the southeastern part between the N1 and the coast is a purely industrial area, the zone Industrielle de Mbao . Neighboring clockwise are the districts of Thiaroye sur Mer , Tivaouane Diacksao and Thiaroye Gare in the west, Yeumbeul Sud in the north and Mbao in the east.
population
The last censuses showed the following population figures for the city district:
year | Residents |
---|---|
1988 | ... |
2002 | 105 782 |
2013 | 128 512 |
traffic
Junction 7 of Autoroute 1 west of the district border connects the city district with the capital Dakar and junction 8 in the east connects it with Dakar-Blaise Diagne International Airport .
Individual evidence
- ↑ enqueteplus of February 11, 2016: Forêt classée de Mbao. Quand la végétation fait des heureux
- ↑ Baie de Hann at Geonames
- ↑ 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
- ^ City districts of Pikine in Monographie de Dakar 2014 page 5 of the PDF file 4.4 MB
- ↑ 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
- ↑ 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