Mbour (department)
The Mbour department with the capital Mbour is one of 45 departments that make up Senegal , and the southern of three departments that make up the Thiès region from north to south. It is located in the central west of Senegal on the Petite-Côte, southeast of the Dakar metropolitan region . This stretch of coast is the center of tourism and fishing for all of Senegal.
The department has an area of 1607 km² and is divided into arrondissements, communes and rural communes (Communautés rurales) as follows:
| Commune / Arrondissement |
Communauté rurale |
Residents 2013 |
| Mbour | - | 232,777 |
| Joal-Fadiouth | - | 45.903 |
| Nguèkhokh | - | 27,033 |
| Thiadiaye | - | 14,976 |
| Ngaparou | - | 9,525 |
| Popenguine | - | 8,651 |
| Saly Portudal | - | 26,945 |
| Somone | - | 5,448 |
| Fissure | Fissure | 38,367 |
| Fissure | Ndiaganiao | 46,469 |
| Séssène | Nguéniène | 34,481 |
| Séssène | Sandiara | 28,430 |
| Séssène | Séssène | 24,786 |
| Sindia | Malicounda | 61,031 |
| Sindia | That | 30,396 |
| Sindia | Sindia | 33,663 |
| Department | - | 668,878 |
Individual evidence
- ↑ Service Régional de la Statistique et de la Démographie de Thiès: Situation economique et sociale regional 2013 area of the department on page 32 of the PDF file 6.48 MB
- ↑ Organization administrative de la région (administrative structure) on pages 27 and 28 of the 2013 annual report
- ↑ ANSD: Rapport Projection de la Population du Senegal 2013 - 2063 (RGPHAE 2013) Region Thiès, pages 46 to 49 of the PDF file 1.44 MB
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Administrative division of Senegal
Coordinates: 14 ° 27 ′ N , 16 ° 57 ′ W