Louga
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| Coordinates | 15 ° 37 '24 " N , 16 ° 13' 25" W | ||
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| Country | Senegal | ||
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| Department | Louga | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | SN-LG | ||
| height | 42 m | ||
| surface | 18 km² | ||
| Residents | 104,349 (2013) | ||
| density | 5,797.2 Ew. / km² | ||
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Louga [ luˈɡa ] is a city in northwest Senegal . It is the capital of the Louga region and the Louga department .
Geographical location
Louga is located 203 kilometers northeast of Dakar and 68 kilometers southeast of Saint-Louis in the area of the rain-poor Sahel zone . The Grande-Côte on the Atlantic is 38 kilometers away.
history
Louga quickly developed from a small village and market town in this area called Ndiambour into a town after the French colonial administration built a fort here in 1883 to pacify this area south of the city of Saint-Louis . Soon many people from the troubled surrounding area moved here under the protection of the colonial power. On January 18, 1887, this established the Cercle (district) Louga. This promoted the central function of the city. From then on, its residents devoted themselves not only to agriculture and cattle breeding, but also to other branches of business and to trade and social life. The first planned urban settlement was established in 1894. Since then, Louga has developed the appearance and infrastructure of a typical French colonial town.
Starting in 1900, the establishment of a cattle and farmers market (Marbath) gave the city of Louga a considerable boost in development. In 1901, the district of Santhiaba was built west of the Dakar – Saint-Louis railway line, which opened in 1885 .
population
The city of Louga already had a thousand inhabitants in 1887. The last censuses showed the following population figures for the city:
| year | Residents |
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| 1976 | 35,579 |
| 1988 | 52.057 |
| 2002 | 73,662 |
| 2013 | 104,349 |
Twin cities
City personalities
- Abdou Diouf (* 1935), President of Senegal from 1982 to 2000
