Nioro du Rip
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| Coordinates | 13 ° 45 ′ N , 15 ° 46 ′ W | ||
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| Country | Senegal | ||
| Kaolack | |||
| Department | Nioro du Rip | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | SN-KL | ||
| height | 19 m | ||
| Residents | 20,784 (2013) | ||
Nioro du Rip is a city in the southern center of Senegal . It is the prefecture of the Nioro du Rip department in the Kaolack region .
Geographical location
Nioro du Rip is located in the south of the Kaolack region , 53 kilometers from the Kaolack regional prefecture and 17 kilometers north of the border with Gambia . The city is the center of the southern peanut basin .
history
The city of Nioro du Rip got its name in 1861 after the conquest by the marabout Maba Diakhou Bâ , who named his state Rip and who named the city after the Malian city of Nioro du Sahel in honor of his ally El Hadj Umar Tall , who had conquered that city a few years earlier.
population
The last censuses showed the following population figures for the city:
| year | Residents |
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| 1988 | 11,841 |
| 2002 | 13,976 |
| 2013 | 20,784 |
traffic
Nioro du Rip is an important stage on the national road N 4 , which branches off from the N 1 to the southeast in Kaolack , there first crosses the Saloum , in Nioro takes a country road coming from Kaffrine 45 kilometers away , after a further 11 kilometers the 1000 meters here wide Grand Bao Bolon crosses towards the Gambian transit route of the Trans-Gambia Highway , via which the southern Senegalese Casamance and the city of Ziguinchor can be reached.
Via the N4, Nioro du Rip is connected to Kaolack Airport, 54 km away, and to the national air transport network.
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Senegal: The most important places with statistics on their population
- ↑ Measure distance with google maps