Kédougou
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| Coordinates | 12 ° 33 ′ N , 12 ° 11 ′ W | ||
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| Country | Senegal | ||
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| Department | Kédougou | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | SN-KE | ||
| height | 126 m | ||
| Residents | 30,051 (2013) | ||
Kédougou is a city in southeast Senegal . It is the capital of the Kédougou region and the Kédougou department .
Geographical location
Kédougou is the southeasternmost regional prefecture of Senegal and at the same time the furthest away from the capital Dakar at 600 km . Border crossings to Guinea-Conakry in the south are 30 km and to Mali in the east 100 km away. The city is located on the left northern bank of the Gambia River , the river bed of which here, 120 km north of its headwaters, is about 80 m wide. The eastern edge of the Niokolo-Koba National Park is 45 km away.
population
The last censuses showed the following population figures for the city:
| year | Residents |
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| 1988 | 11,216 |
| 2002 | 16,672 |
| 2013 | 30.051 |
traffic
On the national road N 7 , which ends in Kédougou, the city is connected to the national road network. South of Kédougou there is a border crossing of supra-regional importance to Guinea-Conakry on the national road N 8 there . To the east, a paved car route extends the N7 via Saraya to the border with Mali. A bridge over the border river Falémé connects southern Senegal with the Malian national road N24 . This is paved and leads to Bamako via Kita .
An important part of the transport infrastructure is the Kédougou airport, which is close to the city .
sons and daughters of the town
- Salif Diao (born 1977), football player
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Measure distances with google maps
- ↑ Senegal: The most important places with statistics on their population