Malem Hodar

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Malem Hodar
Malem Hodar (Senegal)
Malem Hodar
Malem Hodar
Coordinates 14 ° 5 ′  N , 15 ° 17 ′  W Coordinates: 14 ° 5 ′  N , 15 ° 17 ′  W
Basic data
Country Senegal

region

Kaffrine
Department Malem Hodar
ISO 3166-2 SN-KA
height 45 m
surface 120 km²
Residents 7879 (2013)
density 65.7  Ew. / km²
View of Malem Hodar
View of Malem Hodar

Malem Hodar is a city in the center of Senegal . It is prefecture of the Malem Hodar department in the Kaffrine region . The spelling of the name is not completely uniform in official use, the letter "d" is occasionally doubled in Hodar, but a reputable website produced locally does not do this.

Geographical location

Malem Hodar is located in the center of the Kaffrine region , 27 kilometers from the Kaffrine Regional Prefecture . Six kilometers east of the center, the Grand Bao Bolon passes the city, whose valley only has water here in the rainy season .

history

The place Malem Hodar received a train station during the expansion of the Dakar – Niger railway between Thiès and Kayes , which took place between 1907 and 1923.

From 1976 Malem Hodar was the seat of a communauté rurale and an arrondissement. When the latter was raised to the rank of a department, Malem Hodar received the legal status of a commune (city) in 2008 . The urban area is measured from the sub-prefecture

  • 4 km north to the villages of Tawa and Diam Diam
  • 6 km south to the village of Mbaracounda
  • 6 km east to the villages of Maka Bélal and Malem Thialène
  • 6 km to the west to the villages of Goudié and Hoddar (both exclusively).

This results in a city area of ​​120 km².

population

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

year Residents
1988 ...
2002 ...
2013 7,879

traffic

Two kilometers south of the town center, the national road N 1 connects Malem Hodar with the port metropolis Dakar and the cities of Mbour , Fatick , Kaolack , Birkelane and Kaffrine in the west as well as with Koungheul , Koumpentoum and Tambacounda in the east and leads to Kidira across the Malian border Kayes . The Dakar – Niger railway , which is important for freight traffic in the peanut basin and with neighboring Mali , runs right through Malem Hodar and parallel to the N1 .

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Malem Hodar on the Internet ( Memento from December 30, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ DECRET n ° 2008-748 du 10 juillet 2008 portant création de communes dans les régions de Fatick, Kaffrine, ... ( Memento of 10 November 2017 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Senegal: The most important places with statistics on their population

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