Pikine Department

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Pikine Department is an administrative division in western Senegal that forms part of the greater Dakar metropolitan area and includes densely populated urban and suburban communities.

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Label Occurrences
Pikine Department canonical 3

Statements (29)

Predicate Object
instanceOf department of Senegal
administrativeDivisionOf Dakar Region NERFINISHED
borderedBy Dakar Department
Rufisque Department ONNED1
characterizedBy high population density
informal settlements
rapid urbanization
contains Guédiawaye Department
surface form: Guédiawaye (historically before its own department creation)

Pikine
country Senegal
demographicCharacteristic high internal migration from other regions of Senegal
predominantly young population
governedAs local administrative unit of Senegal
hasCapital Pikine
hasCommonLanguage Wolof
hasOfficialLanguage French
hasSettlementType suburban area
urban area
hasSubdivisionType arrondissement
hasTransportLink public bus services within Dakar metropolitan area
road connections to central Dakar
hasUrbanFunction residential zone for Dakar workforce
locatedIn Dakar Region NERFINISHED
western Senegal
locatedOnContinent Africa
partOf Cap-Vert Peninsula
surface form: Cap-Vert Peninsula urban area

Dakar metropolitan area ONNED1
timeZone UTC+0
usesCurrency West African CFA franc

Referenced by (3)

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Dakar Region contains Pikine Department
Dakar Department contains Pikine Department
Guédiawaye Department borderedBy Pikine Department