Sédhiou
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| Coordinates | 12 ° 42 '32 " N , 15 ° 33' 7" W | ||
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| Country | Senegal | ||
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| Department | Sédhiou | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | SN-SE | ||
| height | 34 m | ||
| surface | 7.4 km² | ||
| Residents | 24,213 (2013) | ||
| density | 3272 Ew. / km² | ||
Sédhiou is a city in southern Senegal . It is the capital of the Sédhiou region and the Sédhiou department .
Geographical location
Sédhiou is located in the center of Casamance , the part of Senegal that stretches between Gambia and Guinea-Bissau . The city is located on the right northern bank of the Casamance River , which is about 1.9 km wide here and flows south for about 25 km at Sédhiou on its way to the Atlantic Ocean. The open sea is about 160 kilometers from the river.
population
The last censuses showed the following population figures for the city:
| year | Residents |
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| 1976 | 9,332 |
| 1988 | 13,212 |
| 2002 | 18,465 |
| 2013 | 24,213 |
traffic
Since the entire Sédhiou département is not accessible from the trunk road network in Senegal due to its isolated location between the lower reaches of the Casamance River and Soungrougrou , only regional roads from the west and north lead to Sédhiou. To the west the R 21 leads over the ferry from Marsassoum to Bignona and Ziguinchor and to the north the R 22 goes to Madina Wandifa and Bounkiling . The road crosses the Soungrougrou near the village of Diaroumé and in Madina Wandifa it joins the N 4 known as the Transgambienne . This connects the west and north of Casamance via Gambia as well as via Nioro du Rip and Kaolack with the rest of the country.
At Diendé, a road branches off the northern route eastwards to Kolda , where a bridge crosses the Casamance River and creates a connection to the N 6 that accompanies the south bank . Otherwise, the south bank can only be reached by water. In Sédhiou there is a ferry that reaches the other bank at Sandinièr with a 2400 meter crossing .
Town twinning
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Les Ulis , France
Personalities
- Sadio Mané (* 1992), Senegalese football player
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Measure distances with google maps
- ↑ Senegal: The most important places with statistics on their population
- ↑ Sandinièr at Geonames