Madina Wandifa
| Madina Wandifa | |||
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| Coordinates | 13 ° 3 '29 " N , 15 ° 38' 35" W | ||
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| Country | Senegal | ||
| Sédhiou | |||
| Department | Bounkiling | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | SN-SE | ||
| height | 22 m | ||
| surface | 14 km² | ||
| Residents | 12,205 (2013) | ||
| density | 871.8 Ew. / km² | ||
Madina Wandifa is a town in the Bounkiling department of the Sédhiou region , in the south of Senegal . The spelling of the name is not entirely uniform in official use, the form Médina Wandifa is also used.
Geographical location
Madina Wandifa is located in the center of Casamance , the part of Senegal that stretches between Gambia and Guinea-Bissau . The city is located 270 kilometers southeast of Dakar , 39 kilometers north of the Sédhiou regional prefecture and six kilometers east of Bounkiling . The city is located seven kilometers north of the Soungrougrou , which here, 120 km east of the Atlantic coast , has a width of about 850 meters under the leaching influence of the tidal currents and is crossed at this point by a combined dam and bridge construction. In the north, the border crossing to Gambia is 39 kilometers away.
history
The village of Madina Wandifa was united with the village of Toua el Hadji in 2008 and gained the status of a commune (city). From the transformer station, the urban area extends a certain number of kilometers in all four directions. This resulted in a calculated urban area of 14.0 km².
Thanks to its convenient location, the number of residents has doubled to 14,000 within a few years. The supply of drinking water in particular was unable to keep pace with this dynamic development. After years of scarcity of drinking water, it was decided in 2017 to drill wells and build a water tower.
population
The last censuses showed the following population figures:
| year | Residents |
|---|---|
| 1988 | ... |
| 2002 | ... |
| 2013 | 12.205 |
traffic
Madina Wandifa is an important transport hub on the Transgambienne known national road N4 , which the west and north of the Casamance connects via Gambia with the rest of the country. Starting from the city and port city of Ziguinchor , she reaches Madina Wandifa via Bignona and Bounkiling . From here it continues north across the border and to the 850 meter long ferry connection across the Gambia . Back in Senegal, it turns northwest via Nioro du Rip to Kaolack , where it crosses the Saloum in front of the city and then crosses the N 1 .
In the center of Madina Wandifa, a road branches off the N4 to the south into the prefecture of the Sédhiou department and first crosses the Soungrougrou , on the other bank of which is the village of Diaroumé, eight and a half kilometers away . Madina Wandifa owes this fact that the city is also commonly known under the name Carrefour Diaroumé (Diaroumé intersection).
With Ziguinchor Airport 91 kilometers away, there is a connection to the national air transport network.
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Measure distances with google maps
- ↑ DECRET n ° 2008-748 du 10 juillet 2008 portant création de communes dans les régions de ... Sédhiou, ... ( Memento of 10 November 2017 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Senegal: The most important places with statistics on their population
- ↑ Madina Wandifa dit Carrefour Diaroumé. C'est plus de 100 véhicules par jour et plus de 2 millions de recettes par mois