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Senegal is the westernmost country in the mainland of the Old World, or Afro-Eurasia. [14] It owes its name to the Senegal River, which borders it to the east and north. [15] The climate is typically Sahelian, though there is a rainy season. Senegal covers a land area of almost 197,000 square kilometres (76,000 sq mi) and has a population of ...
France had begun settling on the coast of modern Senegal in the 17th century, gradually extending their rule further inland during the mid-1800s onward. [3] [4] The areas east of the Falémé river (i.e. roughly modern Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger) were originally under Senegalese administration as Upper Senegal, but were split off as French Sudan in 1893. [2]
Geography of Senegal. Senegal is a coastal West African nation located 14 degrees north of the equator and 14 degrees west of the Prime Meridian. The country's total area is 196,190 km 2 of which 192,000 km 2 is land and 4,190 km 2 is water. 70% of the population of Senegal lives in the Coastal Region, [1] so climate change is expected to ...
See France–Senegal relations. Both countries established diplomatic relations on 20 August 1960 [251] France has an embassy in Dakar and a consulate-general in Saint-Louis. [252] Senegal has an embassy in Paris and consulates-general in Bordeaux, Lyon and Marseille and a consular agency in Le Havre. [253] Germany: 23 September 1960
In 1960 France granted Senegal independence; Gambia became independent in 1965, at which point the border became an international one between two sovereign states. [2] In 1976 the two governments conducted some minor boundary adjustments in the far eastern section by mutual agreement. [2] From 1982 to 1989 the two states were loosely united in ...
250,000 displaced. The Mauritania–Senegal Border War was a conflict fought between the West African countries of Mauritania and Senegal along their shared border from 1989 to 1991. The conflict began around disputes over the two countries' River Senegal border and grazing rights. The conflict resulted in the rupture of diplomatic relations ...
Description. The border starts in the west at the Atlantic coast and then goes east, crossing the Langue de Barbarie spit, and then veers north, utilizing the Marigot de Mambatio, before reaching the Senegal river. The border then follows this river eastwards in a broad arc, terminating at the Mali tripoint at the Senegal/ Falémé confluence.
France had begun settling in the region of modern Senegal in the 17th century, later annexing the coast of what is now Guinea in the late 19th century as the Rivières du Sud colony. [3] [4] [5] The latter area was constituted as French Guinea in 1893, with both it and Senegal later becoming part of the French West Africa colony. [2]