Koumpentoum
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| Coordinates | 13 ° 58 '49 " N , 14 ° 33' 44" W | ||
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| Country | Senegal | ||
| Tambacounda | |||
| Department | Koumpentoum | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | SN-TC | ||
| height | 24 m | ||
| surface | 22.1 km² | ||
| Residents | 10,022 (2013) | ||
| density | 452.7 Ew. / km² | ||
Koumpentoum is a city in the center of Senegal . It is prefecture of the Koumpentoum department in the Tambacounda region .
Geographical location
Koumpentoum is located on the western border of the Tambacounda region , 99 kilometers from the regional prefecture of Tambacounda , on the left southern side of the Nianija Bolong , whose dry valley, which is perhaps 40 meters wide, only carries water here in the rainy season.
history
The Village Koumpentoum was the seat of a communauté rurale and an arrondissement. When the latter was raised to the rank of a department, Koumpentoum received the legal status of a commune (city) in 2008 . The urban area is measured from the sub-prefecture
- 2 km north to the Vallée de Koumpentoum
- 2 km east up to the valley towards the village of Koumpentoum Socé
- 2.1 km to the west on the national route n ° 1.
- 3.4 km to the south up to the firelight towards the forest.
Mathematically, this results in an urban area of around 22.14 km².
population
The last censuses showed the following population figures for the city:
| year | Residents |
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| 1988 | ... |
| 2002 | ... |
| 2013 | 10,022 |
traffic
The national road N 1 leads through Koumpentoum . It connects the port metropolis of Dakar and the cities of Mbour , Fatick , Kaolack , Birkelane , Kaffrine , Malem Hodar and Koungheul in the west with Tambacounda in the east and continues at Kidira across the Malian border to Kayes . The N1 runs side by side with the Dakar – Niger railway , which is important for freight traffic in the peanut basin and with neighboring Mali.