HLM (Dakar)
HLM Commune d'arrondissement HLM |
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Coordinates | 14 ° 42 '20 " N , 17 ° 26' 42" W |
The 19th Communes d'arrondissement in Dakar | |
Basic data | |
Country | Senegal |
Dakar | |
Department | Dakar |
ISO 3166-2 | SN-DK |
Arrondissement | Arrondissement de Grand Dakar |
height | 14 m |
surface | 1.7 km² |
Residents | 39,126 (2013) |
density | 23,015.3 Ew. / km² |
Street scene in HLM
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HLM is one of the 19 municipalities (Communes d'arrondissement du Sénégal) of Dakar , the capital of Senegal . The name indicates that the municipality was built as a project of the Société Nationale des Habitations à Loyer Modéré (SNHLM) . HLM is the usual French abbreviation for Habitation à loyer modéré (living at moderate rents - social housing ).
geography
HLM is located in the interior of the Cap Vert Peninsula . The city district extends long and narrow in a south-north direction along the west side of the A1 over three kilometers and a width of around 500 meters.
The municipality has an area of 1.7 km². The districts of Grand Dakar , Biscuiterie and Dieuppeul-Derklé in the west, Grand Yoff in the north, Hann-Bel Air in the east and Gueule Tapée-Fass-Colobane in the south are adjacent clockwise .
The city district is divided from north to south into the districts HLM 1 to HLM 6 . In the north the district Cité des eaux forms the end, in the south the districts Cité port, Cité douane and HLM Nimzatt .
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 |
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1988 | ... |
2002 | 41,523 |
2013 | 39.126 |
Infrastructure and culture
In the south, between HLM Nimzatt and Colobane, there is a junction with Autoroute 1 , which leads from the city center to the new Dakar-Blaise Diagne Airport . Likewise in the north between Cité des eaux and Grand Yoff . The central waterworks of the Dakar metropolis, called Usine des eaux de la SDE, is located at this traffic junction right next to the A1 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ SNHLM on the Internet
- ↑ 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
- ↑ 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
- ↑ 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
- ^ History of the Sénégalaise des eaux (SDE) on the Internet
Web links
- Communes d'arrondissement on the Internet at Ville de Dakar ( Memento from August 15, 2018 in the Internet Archive )