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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 ...
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 ...
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]
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.
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
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 ...
Mauritania, [a] formally the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, [b] is an arab sovereign country in Northwest Africa. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west, Morocco to the north and northwest, Algeria to the northeast, Mali to the east and southeast, and Senegal to the southwest. By land area Mauritania is the 11th-largest country in ...
The Gambia–Senegal border (1 C, 1 P) Guinea–Senegal border (2 P) Guinea-Bissau–Senegal border (1 C, 1 P)