Kébémer
| Kébémer | |||
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| Coordinates | 15 ° 22 '26 " N , 16 ° 26' 59" W | ||
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| Country | Senegal | ||
| Louga | |||
| Department | Kébémer | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | SN-LG | ||
| height | 43 m | ||
| surface | 4 km² | ||
| Residents | 19,902 (2013) | ||
| density | 4,975.5 Ew. / km² | ||
Kébémer is a city in northwest Senegal . It is prefecture of the Kébémer department in the Louga region .
Geographical location
Kébémer is located in the southwest of the Louga region , 154 kilometers north-east of Dakar and 72 kilometers south of Saint-Louis in the area of the desert-free Sahel zone . The Grande-Côte and the coastal dune area of Lompoul-sur-Mer are 30 kilometers away. It is 35 kilometers to the regional prefecture of Louga . The city limits form a square with a side length of 2 kilometers, which results in an urban area of 4 km².
population
The last censuses showed the following population figures for the city:
| year | Residents |
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| 1988 | 8,120 |
| 2002 | 14,438 |
| 2013 | 19.902 |
traffic
Kébémer is on the N 2 national road . It connects the metropolis Dakar and the cities of Rufisque , Thiès , Tivaouane in the south-west with Louga , Saint-Louis , Richard Toll , Dagana , Ourossogui in the north-east and in a large arc, initially following the Grande Côte at some distance and then following the left bank of Senegal East and finally with Kidira on the Malian border.
The Dakar – Saint-Louis railway line, opened in 1885 and now closed, runs parallel to the N2 through the city.
City personalities
- Abdoulaye Wade (* 1926), President of Senegal from 2000 to 2012
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Lompoul-sur-Mer on the Internet
- ↑ Senegal: The most important places with statistics on their population