Diourbel
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| Coordinates | 14 ° 39 ′ N , 16 ° 14 ′ W | ||
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| Country | Senegal | ||
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| Department | Diourbel | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | SN-DB | ||
| height | 12 m | ||
| Residents | 133,705 (2013) | ||
| Post Code | 21600 | ||
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| mayor | Aminata Tall (born 1949) | ||
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Diourbel [ djurˈbɛl ] - Jurbel in Wolof -Idiom - is a city in western Senegal , 150 kilometers from the capital Dakar , east of Thiès . It is the capital of the Diourbel region and the Diourbel department .
The main source of income for the population is local peanut cultivation. The desertification of the increasingly arid environment has recently led to rural exodus and severe impoverishment , which was measurable as malnutrition among small children and is even more evident in the neighboring town of Touba , a founding of the Muridiyya .
Several parties and political associations have their headquarters in Diourbel: the Mouvement des citoyens pour une démocratie de développement , the Mouvement national des serviteurs des masses and the Parti populaire sénégalais .
population
The last censuses showed the following population figures for the city:
| year | Residents |
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| 1988 | 76,548 |
| 2002 | 95,984 |
| 2013 | 133,705 |
Town twinning
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Avignon , France
Personalities
- Jacques Baudin (* 1939), politician
- Ousmane Mané (* 1990), football player
- Makhtar Vincent N'Diaye (born 1973), basketball player
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Cécile Carlier, Jean-Paul Moulia-Pelat, Jean-François Ceccon, Marie-Sophie Mourey, Barbara Ameline, Maktar Fall, Maktar N'Diaye and Olivier Amédée-Manesme: Prevalence of malnutrition and vitamin A deficiency in the Diourbel, Fatick, and Kaolack regions of Senegal: epidemiological study (PDF; 1.2 MB) American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Vol. 53, pp 70-73, 1991 ( archived on WebCite ( memento of November 3, 2009 on WebCite ) on November 3 2009)
- ↑ Senegal: The most important places with statistics on their population