Salémata
| Salémata | |||
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| Coordinates | 12 ° 38 ′ N , 12 ° 49 ′ W | ||
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| Country | Senegal | ||
| Kédougou | |||
| Department | Salémata | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | SN-KE | ||
| height | 85 m | ||
| surface | 92.4 km² | ||
| Residents | 4751 (2013) | ||
| density | 51.4 Ew. / km² | ||
Salémata is a city in southeast Senegal . It is prefecture of the Salémata department in the Kédougou region .
Geographical location
Salémata is located 550 kilometers southeast of Dakar and 67 kilometers west of the regional prefecture of Kédougou in the Bassari Mountains between the Gambia River , which flows nine kilometers north of the city and the border with neighboring Guinea , which approaches it to within twelve kilometers in the south.
history
The village of Salémata received the status of a commune (city) in 2008 because from then on it was the prefecture of a department. The urban area extends from the mosque of Salémata a certain number of kilometers in all four directions. Mathematically, this resulted in an urban area of 92.4 km².
population
The 2013 census gave the city a population of 4,751.
traffic
Salémata is off the network of national roads . There is only a connection to the N 7 via the regional prefecture of Kédougou further east . The Kédougou airport there offers a connection to the national air transport network.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Measure distances with google maps
- ↑ DECRET n ° 2008-748 du 10 juillet 2008 portant création de communes dans les régions de ... Kédougou, ... ( Memento of 10 November 2017 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Service Régional de la Statistique et de la Démographie de Kédougou: Situation economique et sociale regional 2013, page 141 of the PDF file 4.34 MB