Dakar

Dakar is the caipital an lairgest ceety o Senegal, locatit on the Cap-Vert Peninsula, on the kintra's Atlantic coast. Its position, on the wastren edge o Africae (it is the wastrenmaist ceety on the African mainland), is an advantageous departure point for trans-Atlantic an European trade; this fact aidit its growth intae a major regional port.

Accordin tae December 31, 2005 offeecial estimates, the ceety o Dakar proper haes a population o 1,030,594, whereas the population o the Dakar metropolitan aurie is estimatit at 2.45 million fowk.

Dakar is a major administrative centre, hame tae the Naitional Assembly o Senegal an Senegal's Preses's Palace.

 Internaitional relations 

 Twin touns — Sister ceeties 
Dakar is twinned wi:

  Ann Arbor, Michigan, Unitit States
  Baku, Azerbaijan
  Douala, Cameroon
  Isfahan, Iran
  Milan, Italy
  Oran, Algerie
 Rangpur, Bangladesh
  Rosario, Argentinae
  Washington, D.C., Unitit States

 References 

 Freemit airtins 

  Offeecial wabsteid
 Peace Corps Senegal Volunteer Guide tae Dakar 

Category:Caipitals in Africae
Category:Populatit places in Senegal
Category:Populatit coastal places in Senegal

Category:Dakar Region
Dakar 1677-1959
Category:Port ceeties in Africae
Category:Regional caipitals in Senegal
Category:Populatit places established in 1857