Thiaroye sur Mer

Thiaroye sur Mer Commune d'arrondissement Thiaroye sur Mer
Coordinates	14 ° 44 '34 "  N , 17 ° 22' 52"  W Coordinates: 14 ° 44 '34 "  N , 17 ° 22' 52"  W
The 16 communes d'arrondissement in Pikine
Basic data
Country	Senegal
region	Dakar
Department	Pikins
Arrondissement	Arrondissement de Thiaroye
height	14 m
surface	3.5 km²
Residents	52,773 (2013)
density	15,078  Ew. / km²

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

geography

Thiaroye sur Mer is located in the south of the bottleneck of the Cap-Vert peninsula on the Baie de Hann . The northern border of the district follows the course of the national road N 1 . To the north are the districts of Pikine Ouest , Guinaw Rail Sud , Tivaouane Diacksao and Diamaguène-Sicap Mbao . The latter also forms the eastern border with the refinery site of the Société africaine de raffinage (SAR) . Thiaroye sur Mer shares a contiguous industrial area with the Dalifort district to the west . The east-west extension of the district is around 5500 meters, the south-north extension varies between 500 and 1000 meters.

The municipality has an area of ​​3.5 km². and, with the exception of a few vacant lots and garden areas in the eastern half, is almost completely built on.

history

Thiaroye sur Mer, together with Hann , Mbao and Rufisque, is one of the old fishing settlements on the south bank of the Cap-Vert peninsula and is traditionally known as such as Mbatal .

population

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

year	Residents
1988	...
2002	36 602
2013	52 773

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Baie de Hann at Geonames
2. ↑ Measure distances with google maps
3. ↑ 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
4. ↑ Historique du développement spatial de Dakar in Monographie de Dakar 2014 Thiaroye sur Mer and other old places as a black area on the map on page 14 of the PDF file 4.4 MB
5. ↑ 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
6. ↑ 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