Khombole

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Khombole
Khombole (Senegal)
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Coordinates 14 ° 46 ′  N , 16 ° 41 ′  W Coordinates: 14 ° 46 ′  N , 16 ° 41 ′  W
Basic data
Country Senegal

region

Thiès
Department Thiès
ISO 3166-2 SN-TH
height 17 m
Residents 15,587 (2013)

Khombole is a town in the department of Thiès in Thiès Region , located in the central west of Senegal .

Geographical location

Khombole is located in the peanut basin of Senegal in the east of the Thiès department , halfway between the cities of Thiès and Bambey, not far from the border with the Diourbel region .

Khombole is 83 kilometers east of Dakar and 25 kilometers east of the regional prefecture of Thiès

history

The French colonial administration founded an urban settlement in 1907 and named it Khombole after the village located here. On April 23, 1908, the station was opened, which served mainly as a transshipment point for the transport of the peanut harvest to Rufisque and Dakar . Various French companies settled here and this led to the construction of new city districts from 1909, the streets of which run parallel or at right angles to the railway line like a chessboard.

Khombole achieved the status of a town (commune mixte) on September 25, 1925. In the same year a mosque was built. Since 1966 Khombole has had the legal status of a town (commune) within the meaning of Law No. 66-64 of June 30, 1966 on local self-government .

population

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

year Residents
1988 9,437
2002 11,574
2013 15,587

traffic

Khombole is on the N 3 national road . This connects the important traffic junction Thiès in the west via Khombole with Bambey , Diourbel , Mbacké , Touba , Linguère , Ranérou , Ourossogui and Matam in the east of the country and with the border with Mauritania on the shores of Senegal . The N3 runs side by side with the Dakar – Niger railway line , which is important for freight traffic in the peanut basin and with neighboring Mali, through the urban area.

Town twinning

Personalities

  • Mamadou Dia (1910–2009), Prime Minister of Senegal 1960 to 1962

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Measure distances with google maps
  2. ↑ Senegal: The most important places with statistics on their population
  3. ↑ Khombole. Retrieved July 10, 2018 (de-US).

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