Thiès (department)
The Thiès department with the capital Thiès is one of 45 departments that make up Senegal , and the middle of three departments that make up the Thiès region from north to south. It is located in the central west of Senegal and borders the Dakar metropolitan area .
The department has an area of 1873 km² and is divided into arrondissements, communes and rural communes (Communautés rurales) as follows:
Commune / Arrondissement |
Commune d'arrondissement Communauté rurale |
Residents 2013 |
Ville de Thiès | Thiès Nord | 104,095 |
Ville de Thiès | Thiès Est | 132.080 |
Ville de Thiès | Thiès Ouest | 81,588 |
Khombole | - | 15,587 |
Pout | - | 23,728 |
Kayar | - | 23,585 |
Notto | Notto | 41,936 |
Notto | Tassète | 20,267 |
Thiénaba | Ndiéyène Sirakh | 30.114 |
Thiénaba | Ngoundiane | 24,677 |
Thiénaba | Thiénaba | 24,254 |
Thiénaba | Touba Toul | 44,691 |
Keur Moussa | Diender Guedj | 33,312 |
Keur Moussa | Fandène | 28,050 |
Keur Moussa | Keur Moussa | 39,850 |
Department | - | 667.814 |
For Ville de Thiès , the prefecture of the department, the sum of the three communes d'arrondissement (city districts) results in a population of 317,763 inhabitants. Another subdivision level in the urban area is the division into two arrondissements: the arrondissement Thiès Nord for the city district north and the arrondissement Thiès Sud for the city districts east and west.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Service Régional de la Statistique et de la Démographie de Thiès: Situation economique et sociale regional 2013 area of the department on page 32 of the PDF file 6.48 MB
- ↑ Organization administrative de la région (administrative structure) on pages 27 and 28 of the 2013 annual report
- ↑ ANSD: Rapport Projection de la Population du Senegal 2013 - 2063 (RGPHAE 2013) Region Thiès, pages 46 to 49 of the PDF file 1.44 MB
- ^ Site officiel de la commune de Ngoudiane
Web links
Coordinates: 14 ° 48 ′ N , 16 ° 54 ′ W