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  • 21 Aug, 2019

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Guédiawaye

Guédiawaye is a city in the Guédiawaye Department of the Dakar Region of Senegal. Lying on the Atlantic Ocean to the northeast 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 football goalkeeper Tony Sylva.

Twin towns and sister cities

Guédiawaye is twinned with:

References

  1. ^ "Guediawaye". Birmingham Sister Cities. Retrieved 2024-11-04.

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