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Senegal Geography 2018

SOURCE: 2018 CIA WORLD FACTBOOK AND OTHER SOURCES











Senegal Geography 2018
SOURCE: 2018 CIA WORLD FACTBOOK AND OTHER SOURCES


Page last updated on February 28, 2018

Location:
Western Africa, bordering the North Atlantic Ocean, between Guinea-Bissau and Mauritania

Geographic coordinates:
14 00 N, 14 00 W

Map references:
Africa

Area:
total: 196,722 sq km
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land: 192,530 sq km
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water: 4,192 sq km
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country comparison to the world: 89

Area - comparative:
slightly smaller than South Dakota

Land boundaries:
total: 2,684 km
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border countries (5): The Gambia 749 km, Guinea 363 km, Guinea-Bissau 341 km, Mali 489 km, Mauritania 742 km

Coastline:
531 km
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Maritime claims:
territorial sea: 12 nm
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contiguous zone: 24 nm
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exclusive economic zone: 200 nm
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continental shelf: 200 nm or to the edge of the continental margin
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Climate:
tropical; hot, humid; rainy season (May to November) has strong southeast winds; dry season (December to April) dominated by hot, dry, harmattan wind
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Terrain:
generally low, rolling, plains rising to foothills in southeast

Elevation:
mean elevation: 69 m
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elevation extremes: lowest point: Atlantic Ocean 0 m highest point: unnamed elevation 2.8 km southeast of Nepen Diaka 648 m

Natural resources:
fish, phosphates, iron ore

Land use:
agricultural land: 46.8% arable land 17.4%; permanent crops 0.3%; permanent pasture 29.1%
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forest: 43.8%
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other: 9.4% (2011 est.)
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Irrigated land:
1,200 sq km (2012)
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Population - distribution:
the population is concentrated in the west, with Dakar anchoring a well-defined core area; approximately 70% of the population is rural

Natural hazards:
lowlands seasonally flooded; periodic droughts

Environment - current issues:
wildlife populations threatened by poaching; deforestation; overgrazing; soil erosion; desertification; overfishing

Environment - international agreements:
party to: Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Endangered Species, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Marine Life Conservation, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Wetlands, Whaling
signed, but not ratified: none of the selected agreements

Geography - note:
westernmost country on the African continent; The Gambia is almost an enclave within Senegal


NOTE: 1) The information regarding Senegal on this page is re-published from the 2018 World Fact Book of the United States Central Intelligence Agency. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of Senegal Geography 2018 information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Senegal Geography 2018 should be addressed to the CIA.
2) The rank that you see is the CIA reported rank, which may habe the following issues:
  a) The assign increasing rank number, alphabetically for countries with the same value of the ranked item, whereas we assign them the same rank.
  b) The CIA sometimes assignes counterintuitive ranks. For example, it assigns unemployment rates in increasing order, whereas we rank them in decreasing order






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