Guédiawaye is a city in the Guédiawaye Department of the Dakar Region of

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. Lying on the

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to the northeast of

Dakar Dakar ( ; ; ) is the capital city, capital and List of cities in Senegal, largest city of Senegal. The Departments of Senegal, department of Dakar has a population of 1,278,469, and the population of the Dakar metropolitan area was at 4.0 mill ...

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

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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 and sister cities

Guédiawaye is twinned with: *

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, United States. *

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Image gallery

File:Dakar_-_Guediawaye.jpg, Streets in the town File:Dakar - Guediawaye 2.jpg File:Dakar - Guediawaye 3.jpg File:Dakar - Guediawaye 4.jpg File:Dakar - Guediawaye 5.jpg File:Dakar - Guediawaye - scuola cucito.jpg, Women at a sewing school File:Dakar - Guediawaye - scuola cucito 3.jpg File:Dakar - Guediawaye - scuola cucito 5.jpg

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