Grand Yoff

Grand Yoff Commune d'arrondissement Grand Yoff
Coordinates	14 ° 44 '22 "  N , 17 ° 27' 28"  W Coordinates: 14 ° 44 '22 "  N , 17 ° 27' 28"  W.
The 19th Communes d'arrondissement in Dakar
Basic data
Country	Senegal
region	Dakar
Department	Dakar
Arrondissement	Arrondissement des Parcelles Assainies
height	16 m
surface	6.3 km²
Residents	185,503 (2013)
density	29,444.9  Ew. / km²

Grand Yoff is one of the 19 districts (Communes d'arrondissement du Sénégal) of Dakar , the capital of Senegal . The name is derived from the neighboring traditional fishing village of Yoff .

geography

Grand Yoff is an approximately rectangular borough in the northern interior of the Cap-Vert Peninsula . The east-west extension is around three and a half kilometers, the south-north extension is around two kilometers.

On all four sides of Grand Yoff is important highways limits of urban transport of Dakar. To the south it borders on the Avenue du Roi Fahd Ben Abdel Aziz , which was also known as the Route du Front de Terre . The latter name relates to the fact that this street should form the northern edge of an extensive urban expansion in urban planning terms. However, it was inevitable that other large districts soon emerged further north, and Grand Yoff was the first of these, which now extend to the north coast of the Cap-Vert Peninsula.

In the west, the four-lane expressway Voie de Dégagement Nord (VDN) forms the border. In the north, Grand Yoff extends to avenue Seydina Limamoulaye , formerly known as route de l'aéroport , as it led to the former Dakar-Léopold Sédar Senghor airport . In the east, the border follows Autoroute 1 .

The municipality has an area of ​​6.3 km². Neighboring clockwise are the districts of Yoff in the west, Patte d'Oie in the north, Hann-Bel Air in the east and HLM , Dieuppeul-Derklé , Sicap-Liberté and Ouakam in the south .

Grand Yoff is divided into districts with names that sound like Sud-Foire, Cité millionaire, Arafat, Cité Sonatel, Cité rose, but also Leona, Khar Yalla and the Camp Leclerc military area .

The city district is almost completely built up and densely populated.

population

The last censuses showed the following population figures for the city district:

year	Residents
1988	...
2002	128,740
2013	185.503

economy

To the northeast of Grand Yoff is the CICES district. In its center is the Center International du Commerce Extérieur du Sénégal - CICES (International Foreign Trade Center) with the Foire de Dakar exhibition center , which comprises a series of exhibition halls and open spaces as well as a congress center on around 20 hectares.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 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
2. ↑ 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 Dakar with statistics on their population Page 8 of the PDF File 1.64 MB
3. ↑ ANSD: Rapport Projection de la Population du Senegal 2013–2063 (RGPHAE 2013) figures for 2013, pages 20–21 of the PDF file 1.44 MB
4. ↑ Exhibition and foreign trade center on the Internet

Web links

• Communes d'arrondissement on the Internet at Ville de Dakar ( Memento from August 15, 2018 in the Internet Archive )
• Un policier pour 20,000 habitants. - Grand Yoff's history and infrastructure at www.rewmi.com as of May 30, 2008
• Grand Yoff at Geonames