Pikine Est

Pikine Est Commune d'arrondissement Pikine Est
Coordinates	14 ° 45 '20 "  N , 17 ° 23' 26"  W Coordinates: 14 ° 45 '20 "  N , 17 ° 23' 26"  W.
The 16 communes d'arrondissement in Pikine
Basic data
Country	Senegal
region	Dakar
Department	Pikins
Arrondissement	Arrondissement de Pikine Dagoudane
height	16 m
surface	1 km²
Residents	32,452 (2013)
density	32,452  Ew. / km²

Pikine Est is one of the 16 districts (Communes d'arrondissement du Sénégal) of Pikine , the largest city in Senegal even before the capital Dakar .

geography

Pikine Est is located in the center of the bottleneck of the Cap-Vert Peninsula, long and narrow, between the Pikine Nord district and the Dakar – Niger railway line .

The approximately trapezoidal boundaries of the city district have an area of ​​1.0 km² with a length of around 1100 meters and an average width of around 420 meters. It is completely built up and very densely populated.

The border with Pikine Nord follows the Tally Boubess road . The Route des Niayes forms the demarcation from the northeastern neighboring district Djidah Thiaroye Kao . The Pikine Ouest neighborhoods start across Rue PO 02 . Beyond the railway line are the districts of Guinaw Rail Nord and Guinaw Rail Sud .

population

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

year	Residents
1988	...
2002	31 290
2013	32 452

Individual evidence

1. ^ City districts of Pikine in Monographie de Dakar 2014 page 5 of the PDF file 4.4 MB
2. ↑ Estimation of the population of Dakar par collectivité locale en 2004 Area of ​​the city districts on page 166 of the PDF file 1.12 MB
3. ↑ ANSD: Résultats préliminaires du Troisième Recensement Général de la Population et de l'Habitat du Sénégal de 2002 (RGPH-III) ( Memento of September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) City districts of Pikine with statistics on their population Page 9 of the PDF File 1.64 MB
4. ↑ ANSD: Rapport Projection de la Population du Senegal 2013–2063 (RGPHAE 2013) Figures for 2013, pages 21–22 of the PDF file 1.44 MB

Web links

• Pikine Est at Geonames