Guédiawaye is a town and ''département'' of the

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. Lying on the

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to the north east of

Dakar Dakar ( ; ; wo, Ndakaaru) (from daqaar ''tamarind''), is the capital and largest city of Senegal. The city of Dakar proper has a population of 1,030,594, whereas the population of the Dakar metropolitan area is estimated at 3.94 million in 2 ...

city centre, in 2013 it had a population of 329,659. Until the mid-2000s, the département was part of

Pikine Pikine is a city in the Pikine Department of the Dakar Region of Senegal. Lying to the east of Dakar city centre, at the 2013 Census it had a population of 1,170,791. The department includes the villages of Yeumbeul, Thiaroye, Mbao, and Keur ...

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

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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

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Twin towns - sister cities

Guédiawaye is twinned with: *

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Image gallery

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References

GeoHive: Senegal
*Mariko Shiohata
The Literacy Environment and the Acquisition and Application of Literacy: A case study from Senegal
Populated places in Dakar Region Communes of Senegal Populated places established in the 1950s 1950s establishments in Senegal {{Senegal-geo-stub