1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Senegal
Compare this sourced profile of Dakar, Senegal before planning. Stable fields identify the place; confirm current transport, access and opening details with official sources.
01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Dakar—2,646,503, Africa/Dakar, and source coordinates—from live travel claims. Those fields identify and compare the record; they do not prove current transport, accessibility, census totals, or a City Atlas Club visit.
Wikidata's localized description: capital and the largest city of Senegal.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Dakar is GeoNames ID 2253354. Its recorded administrative path is Dakar → Senegal, and GeoNames classifies the place as a capital of a political entity. Dakar occurs once as a primary city label in this atlas sample; the numeric ID remains the durable source key if names change. The city row itself was updated 2024-07-27; that date belongs to the source record, not to every transport or visitor detail in the real destination.
Within the fixed 1,206-record atlas, Dakar ranks 147 by recorded population. Inside the 3 selected Senegal entries it ranks 1; inside the 243 entries in its broad region it ranks 28. Its 2,646,503 population value is 2.26 times the 1,170,791 median for the country cohort and 2.93 times the 902,588 regional median. Dakar is rank 1 among the 3 selected Senegal entries, so a percentage band would overstate this small cohort. Dakar's recorded value reaches at least twice the country-cohort median in this snapshot. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Dakar's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Pikine at 9.748 km with 1,170,791 recorded people; Touba at 169.704 km with 1,120,824 recorded people; Nouakchott at 408.292 km with 1,184,530 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 398.544 km. Compared with Pikine, Dakar's recorded population is 2.26 times as large. Against Dakar, Pikine follows Dakar → Senegal in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Senegal cohort, uses the shared Africa/Dakar identifier, and carries populated place rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is below Dakar's. Against Dakar, Touba follows Diourbel Region → Senegal in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Senegal cohort, uses the shared Africa/Dakar identifier, and carries populated place rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is below Dakar's. Against Dakar, Nouakchott follows Mauritania in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the selected Mauritania cohort rather than Senegal, uses Africa/Nouakchott instead of Africa/Dakar, and carries the same capital of a political entity class. Its recorded population is below Dakar's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 150 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Dakar's nearest-coordinate gap falls between the tightest tenth and quarter of the atlas. This pattern can reveal whether other catalog references are geographically close, but it cannot establish whether a border crossing is possible or practical, or whether rail, road, fare, or journey-time connections exist. Read as one record signature, GeoNames 2253354, the coordinate pair 14.6937 / 17.4441, country rank 1 of 3, and neighbor GeoNames 2246678 at 9.748 km bind Dakar to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Dakar's reference point is 14.6937° north and 17.4441° west. The IANA identifier Africa/Dakar is shared by 3 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLC is shared by 129 rows. Dakar's row carries a first-order administrative label but no second-order label. Dakar's point falls in the near-equatorial coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Dakar's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Dakar, so the profile preserves that missing value instead of guessing terrain. Together these fields form a reproducible identity check for this page, not a claim about walkability, climate or accessibility.
03Nearby atlas references
Dakar's closest other entries in this atlas are Pikine (9.748 km), Touba (169.704 km), Nouakchott (408.292 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2024-07-27; the atlas checked the dataset 2026-08-04. Available Wikidata fields were verified in the same run.
GeoNames data: CC BY 4.0. Wikidata labels and descriptions: CC0 1.0.