Diamniadio
| Diamniadio | |||
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| Coordinates | 14 ° 43 '12 " N , 17 ° 10' 58" W | ||
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| Country | Senegal | ||
| Dakar | |||
| Department | Rufisque | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | SN-DK | ||
| height | 23 m | ||
| surface | 30.2 km² | ||
| Residents | 23,547 (2013) | ||
| density | 778.9 Ew. / km² | ||
Diamniadio is a city in the Rufisque department of the Dakar metropolitan region , located in western Senegal at the entrance to the Cap-Vert Peninsula . Plans to develop the conveniently located young city into a second seat of government next to Dakar have been producing initial results since 2014.
Geographical location
Diamniadio is located around nine kilometers east of the Rufisque departmental prefecture and 30 kilometers east of the metropolis Dakar in the fertile wetlands of the Grand Niayes , which stretch along the Grande-Côte from the Cap-Vert peninsula to the Senegal estuary at Saint-Louis , against the salty one Sea air protected by a chain of coastal dunes and ideally suited for horticulture .
The sea in the north-west is 16 kilometers away, and the Petite-Côte near Bargny in the south-west is six kilometers away. By Car: Route 1 from Diamniadio separated, bordered to the north of the city Sébikotane on.
history
The place was Diamniadio 2002 rurale with an area of 3023 hectares from the Communauté Yene extracted and received the legal status of a commune (city).
The government of Senegal under President Macky Sall is pursuing the plan to develop Diamniadio into an urban center with 300,000 inhabitants with a central function for the whole country. A conference center named after the former President Abdou Diouf has already been built and in 2014 was the venue for the 15th summit of the Organization Internationale de la Francophonie . The construction of the second university in the Dakar metropolitan region, named after Amadou-Mahtar M'Bow , was as good as completed in 2017. Half of the government is to move to Diamniadio and a second official seat is to be built for the president. There are also plans for a United Nations house that can accommodate up to 3,000 UN officials. Since January 2019, the city in is public transport by train express régional served (TER), which the city of Dakar with the new airport Dakar Blaise Diagne connects.
population
According to the last censuses, the population has developed as follows:
| year | Residents |
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| 1988 | ... |
| 2002 | 10,898 |
| 2013 | 23,547 |
According to the urban development plan, the number of inhabitants is to increase to 28,785 by 2020.
traffic
Diamniadio is an important national transport hub. Transport connections from all over Senegal are bundled here on the way through the Cap-Vert peninsula to the metropolis of Dakar.
The national road N 1 runs right through Diamniadio . It connects the city via Bargny , Rufisque and Pikine with the port metropolis Dakar in the west and to the east it leads through the peanut basin with the cities of Saly Portudal , Mbour , Fatick , Kaolack , Birkelane , Kaffrine , Malem Hodar , Koumpentoum and Tambacounda and it ends in Kidira on the Malian border. The Dakar – Niger railway runs parallel to the N1 on the northern outskirts and is important for freight traffic in the peanut basin and with neighboring Mali. At the eastern edge of the city, the N 2 branches off from the N1. It leads in a wide arc through the north of the country, initially following the Grande-Côte at some distance and then following the left bank of Senegal, through the cities of Sébikotane , Pout , Thiès , Tivaouane , Kébémer , Louga , Saint-Louis , Richard Toll , Dagana , Ourossogui and finally meets the N1 again in Kidira on the Malian border.
Between Diamniadio and Sébikotane there is a junction of the toll Autoroute 1 to the N2.
The Blaise Diagne International Airport is located 15 kilometers southeast of the city.
See also
Web links
- Monograph de Dakar 2014 on Diamniadio page 33 of the PDF file 4.4 MB
- Diamniadio at Geonames
Individual evidence
- ↑ DECRET n ° 2002-171 du 21 févier 2002 portant création des communes de ... Diamniadio, ... ( Memento of March 26, 2018 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Yaya Diallo, Université Lorraine 2014: Diamniadio ou le rêve brisée d'une ville nouvelle, page 280 of the PDF file 7.49 MB
- ^ Voyages d'affaires on December 7, 2017: Dakar. En route pour devenir la capitale des affaires ouest-africaine
- ↑ Le Quotidien of March 13, 2018: Pôle urbain de Diamniadio: Macky annonce un nouveau palais
- ↑ Senegal: The most important places with statistics on their population
- ↑ Diamniadio: Plan de développement communal 2017 - 2022 Population development, page 17 of the PDF file 3.96 MB