Tambacounda
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| Coordinates | 13 ° 47 ′ N , 13 ° 40 ′ W | ||
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| Country | Senegal | ||
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| Department | Tambacounda | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | SN-TC | ||
| height | 45 m | ||
| Residents | 107,293 (2013) | ||
 Tambacounda train station
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Tambacounda [ tambakunˈda ] is a city centrally located in the eastern interior of Senegal . It is the capital of the Tambacounda region and the Tambacounda department . Since 2013, Tambacounda has grown to become the first major Senegalese city in the eastern half of the country with a population of over 107,000 .
Geographical location
Tambacounda is located in the East Senegalese dry savannah about 35 kilometers northeast of the point where the Gambia River changes into the national territory of Gambia and 12 kilometers south of its right northern tributary Sandougou . The Forêt Classée de Botou extends between this and the northern outskirts . A dry valley runs through the south of the city, which flows into the Sandougou at Missirah , 13 kilometers further west . Access to the Niokolo-Koba National Park is just under a hundred kilometers southeast of the city.
To Mali in the east it is about 180 km. To Dakar it is 467 km to the west.
population
The last censuses showed the following population figures for the city:
| year | Residents |
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| 1976 | 25,735 |
| 1988 | 41,885 |
| 2002 | 67,543 |
| 2013 | 107.293 |
history
Originally the place was a Mandinka camp and part of the Bondu Kingdom . Some traces of the colonial era still exist within the city. In 2003, the train station, the Hotel de la Gare and the prefecture building were added to the list of historical monuments.
Tambacounda is the seat of the Tambacounda diocese created in 1989 .
traffic
Senegal's only rail link ( Dakar – Niger line ) runs through the city and runs from the capital Dakar to Bamako ( Mali ).
Tambakounda is the largest junction on the national highway network of Senegal outside the capital region of Dakar . National roads go from here in five directions. In the city center, the N 1 running parallel to the railway line from west to east , a section of the international highway project Dakar-N'Djamena Highway , crosses with the N 7 , which runs from the road junction Ourossogui near Matam in the northeast to Kédougou in the southeast. On the southern outskirts branches from the N7 the N6 from, the only domestic road link in the Casamance . Many road users avoid the (shorter) connection between Casamance and the rest of the country via the Trans-Gambia Highway , as this is connected to two border controls and a ferry passage across the Gambia and take the detour via Tambacounda.
The Tambacounda Airport (Aéroport de Tambacounda) on the south-eastern outskirts, as a continental airport, complements the transport infrastructure of the entire region.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Forêt de Botou at Geonames
- ↑ Jim Hudgens, Richard Trillo: The Rough Guide to West Africa . In: Rough Guide Travel Guides . Rough Guides, 2003, ISBN 1-84353-118-6 , pp. 223 ff . (English, 1274 p., limited preview in the Google book search).
- ↑ Senegal: The most important places with statistics on their population