Yeumbeul North

Yeumbeul Nord Commune d'arrondissement Yeumbeul Nord
Coordinates	14 ° 46 '35 "  N , 17 ° 21' 9"  W Coordinates: 14 ° 46 '35 "  N , 17 ° 21' 9"  W.
The 16 communes d'arrondissement in Pikine
Basic data
Country	Senegal
region	Dakar
Department	Pikins
Arrondissement	Arrondissement des Niayes
height	12 m
surface	8.3 km²
Residents	168,379 (2013)
density	20,286.6  Ew. / km²

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

geography

Yeumbeul Nord is in the northeast of the bottle neck of the Cap-Vert Peninsula . The nearly rhombic circumscribed district extends between the sandy beach of the Grande Côte in the north over the Strandsee Lac Warouwaye to the Route de Boune in the south, to the old village Boune leads, which in the southeast between the municipality and the Forêt classée de Mbao is . With the exception of the flood-prone depressions, which are scattered everywhere, after all, Yeumbeul Nord is located in the wetlands of the Niayes , the municipality is almost completely built up.

The city district has an area of ​​8.3 km². The borderline results partly from a satellite photo published in 2019 as part of an official documentation. Neighboring clockwise are the districts of Malika in the northeast, Keur Massar in the southeast, Yeumbeul Sud in the southwest, and in the northeast the district of Wakhinane Nimzatt of the neighboring town of Guédiawaye .

population

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

year	Residents
1988	...
2002	104 199
2013	168 379

traffic

Yeumbeul Nord is north of the traffic axes of the Cap-Vert Peninsula, on which the west-east traffic flows between the metropolis of Dakar and the rest of the country. This traffic is served by the national road N 1 , as well as the Dakar – Niger railway line and the toll road 1 .

In Yeumbeul Nord itself, the Route de Malika serves as the main traffic axis . It comes from the southwest from Gare de Thiaroye through Yeumbeul Sud and leads to Malika in the northeast. To the north to the beach on the Atlantic coast, a feeder road leads to the four-lane expressway Voie de Dégagement Nord (VDN) , which connects the city district along the coast to the west with Guédiawaye and via Cambérène , where construction work is delayed, finally reaches downtown Dakar . With junction 7 of Autoroute 1 , the district has a fast connection to the west with the capital Dakar via Route de Malika and in east direction Route de Boune connects it via junction 8 with the new international airport Dakar-Blaise Diagne .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Lac Warouwaye at Geonames
2. ↑ Boune at Geonames
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. ^ Agence nationale de l'Aménagement du Territoire (ANAT), December 20, 2019: Missions de démarcation de communes. Jaxaay-Parcelles Assainies-Niakoul Rab / Mbao / Keur Massar / Rufisque Ouest / Tivaouane Peul-Niaga
5. ^ Boundary course in the satellite photo ( Memento from January 6, 2020 in the Internet Archive )
6. ↑ 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
7. ↑ 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