Pikine North

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Pikine Nord
Commune d'arrondissement
Pikine Nord
Coordinates 14 ° 45 '30 "  N , 17 ° 23' 43"  W Coordinates: 14 ° 45 '30 "  N , 17 ° 23' 43"  W.
The 16 communes d'arrondissement in PikineThe 16 communes d'arrondissement in Pikine
Basic data
Country Senegal

region

Dakar
Department Pikins
Arrondissement Arrondissement de Pikine Dagoudane
height 22 m
surface 1.2 km²
Residents 46,780 (2013)
density 38,983.3  Ew. / km²

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

geography

Pikine Nord is located in the center of the bottleneck of the Cap-Vert peninsula between the municipalities of Pikine Ouest and Pikine Est .

The approximately diamond-shaped delimited city district has an area of ​​1.2 km². It is almost completely built up and very densely populated.

The Pikine Est border 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 .

population

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

year Residents
1988 ...
2002 37 103
2013 46 780

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