What city is the capital of Senegal?

Dakar (French: Dakar), the capital of Senegal, is located in Cape Verde Peninsula, on the east coast of the Atlantic Ocean. Dakar is the political, economic, cultural and transportation center of Senegal, as well as the seat of Senegal's National Assembly and the official residence of the President. It is the largest city in Senegal with a population of about 1 10,000 (2006). Dakar is located at the westernmost tip of the African continent and is a very favorable starting point for transatlantic and European trade.

Chinese name

Dakar

Foreign name

Dakar

Administrative category

capital

Belonging area

Western Senegal

geographical position

The westernmost tip of the African continent.

zone

547 kilometers?

Telephone area code

22 1

postcode

999066

Climatic conditions

Typical savanna climate

Population size

About 3.63 million (20 18)

famous scenic spot

Sally Beach, rose lake.

airport

Bryce diagne International Airport.

dialect

French

time zone

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Basic information

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Map of Dakar

The capital and largest port city of Senegal. National political, economic and cultural center. There are large-scale oil extraction (peanut), oil refining, fish cannery, textile printing and dyeing, shipbuilding, chemistry, tobacco and other industries. An important transportation hub in West Africa. The population is about 1 ten thousand (2006).

Standard time zone: 0 time zone UTC/GMT 0 hour

Latitude and longitude: latitude: north latitude14 38'; Longitude: W17 27'

Telephone area code: country area code: +22 1 (Senegal)

geographical position

Sunset in Dakar

Dakar is located at the top of Cape Verde Peninsula in the westernmost part of the African continent, bordering on the Atlantic Ocean. Geographical location is very important. When the Atlantic route is heading for the important gateway of West Africa, it is an important stopover for ships from Europe to South America and from southern Africa to North America.

Traffic location

Dakar

With an international air station, Dakar Port was built in 186 1, with wide waters and good facilities. It can dock 654.38+10,000-ton ships, with a total length of nearly 8,000 meters, and can dock more than 40 seagoing ships at the same time. It has always been an important transit point for ships from Europe to South America and South Africa to North America. There are large fishing docks. The new container terminal is in the north of the port. This railway connects St. Louis in the north and Mali in the east. Some import and export goods of Mauritania, Mali and other countries were re-exported.

Climatic conditions

The lowest temperature is 5438+ 10 in June, with an average of 18 ~ 26℃. The highest temperature is from September to 10, with an average of 24 ~ 32℃. Typical savanna climate.

Scenic spots/tourist attractions

Shali beach

Shali Beach is located in the south of Dakar. Our GPS shows that it is 60 kilometers away from Dakar in a straight line and about 80 kilometers by car. Dakar itself does not have high-quality beaches, which are basically volcanic ash reefs. There are some beaches on the coastline south of Dakar, the most famous of which is Shali Beach.

rose lake

Lake Ross is more than 20 kilometers away from Dakar, the capital of Senegal, and it is the end of the famous Paris Dakar Rally. The lake is red, hence its name because of its high salt content. The good time every day is at four or five o'clock in the afternoon. When the sun goes down, the whole lake will glow red in the sun. There are piles of salt dug from the bottom of the lake, piles and small piles, and some are still labeled with price tags. It is said that these salts are all raw materials sold to processing plants. Lake Ross is a lagoon. Primitive seawater was isolated and formed. After exposure to the African sun, the mineral salt content in the lake is getting higher and higher. Rose lake was originally 15 km long, only 6 km long. Because there is a lot of crystalline salt at the bottom of the lake to form a shell, fresh water can be produced below one meter by the lake.

Gore i.

The beautiful island of Goree

Three kilometers southeast of Dakar, the capital of Senegal, there is an island 900 meters long from north to south and 300 meters wide from east to west. This is the world-famous tourist island-Gore Island. Located in the south of Cape Verde Peninsula in Senegal, it is one of the earliest European colonies in West Africa. The area is only 36 hectares (88 acres). It has been occupied by Portugal and France since the middle of15th century. Used to be a stronghold of the Atlantic slave trade. Decline with the rise of St. Louis and Dhaka. The island has beautiful scenery, museums and ancient castle ruins, and is a tourist attraction.

Goree Island, solidified by molten black basalt, looks like a black pearl embedded in the blue sea. It has a platform, a fortress at the southern end and a fortress (estelle Fort) at the northern end. There is a small pier on the island for small boats to dock in Dakar. On both sides of the street are paved with sandy roads, and ochre-red dilapidated houses stand side by side. The main buildings on the island also include a mosque, a church and one or two colonial government buildings. Compared with other tourist attractions in the world, Africans have frequented the island since the Neolithic Age, and the basalt tools found on the island are the same as those found on Cape Manuel and Madeira Islands.