Guédiawaye

Guédiawaye is a town and département of the Dakar Region of Senegal. Lying on the Atlantic Ocean to the north east of Dakar city centre, in 2013 it had a population of 329,659. Until the mid-2000s, the département was part of Pikine.

Administration

For administrative purposes the town is also a single arrondissement divided into 5 communes d'arrondissement which are (2013 population in brackets):

• Golf Sud (92,345)
• Sam Notaire (78,660)
• Ndiarème Limamoulaye (35,171)
• Wakhinane Nimzatt (89,721)
• Médina Gounass (33,762)

History

The town was founded in the 1950s as a planned commuter town for the city of Dakar. It has a large covered market. A further, informal, community grew up adjacent to it from the 1960s.

Notable people from the town include the

• Birmingham, Alabama, United States.
• Tifariti, Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic.

Image gallery

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  Streets in the town
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  Women at a sewing school
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References

• GeoHive: Senegal
• Mariko Shiohata, The Literacy Environment and the Acquisition and Application of Literacy: A case study from Senegal

14°47′N 17°24′W / 14.783°N 17.400°W / 14.783; -17.400

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