N 5 (Senegal)
| N 5 in Senegal | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 Senegal
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| Start of the street: | south of Kaolack , junction from the N 4 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| End of street: | Bignona , confluence with the N4 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Overall length: | 233 km | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Requirement for use: | no | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Course of the road
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The N 5 is one of the national roads from the west to the south of Senegal . The Dakar-Lagos Highway , one of the Trans-African Highways , follows its course along its entire length. It connects Senegal with Banjul , the capital of neighboring Gambia , from the north and south .
The course of the road begins south of the town of Kaolack in the west of Senegal at a junction from the N 4 , which in turn leads directly north of this point with a nearly two-kilometer-long combined dam and bridge construction over the Saloum . The end of the N5 is in the southwest in the Départementprefecture Bignona , where it joins the N4 again, and the route until then is 233 kilometers long. Without the 80-kilometer transit route in Gambia, it measures 153 kilometers.
The N5 is basically suitable as a north-south connection from the heartland of Senegal to the fertile and relatively densely populated landscape of Casamance, which is isolated south of Gambia . However, east of here the route via the N4 known as the Transgambienne is a little shorter and the Gambia River is much narrower there. In the course of the N5, the Banjul – Barra ferry has to cover a distance of around 4.9 kilometers from one bank to the other at the mouth of the river.
The importance of the N5 lies more in the development of the hinterland of the impassable, because amphibious, coastal region north and south of Gambia, which is divided by many waterways, and in the connection to the capital of the neighboring country.