1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Senegal
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01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Pikine—1,170,791, 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: city in Senegal.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Pikine is GeoNames ID 2246678. Its recorded administrative path is Dakar → Senegal, and GeoNames classifies the place as a populated place. Pikine 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 2026-06-22; 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, Pikine ranks 458 by recorded population. Inside the 3 selected Senegal entries it ranks 2; inside the 243 entries in its broad region it ranks 95. Its 1,170,791 population value is 1.00 times the 1,170,791 median for the country cohort and 1.30 times the 902,588 regional median. Pikine is rank 2 among the 3 selected Senegal entries, so a percentage band would overstate this small cohort. Pikine's recorded value stays within one quarter of the country-cohort median used here. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Pikine's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Dakar at 9.748 km with 2,646,503 recorded people; Touba at 163.265 km with 1,120,824 recorded people; Nouakchott at 398.83 km with 1,184,530 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 389.082 km. Compared with Dakar, Pikine's recorded population is 0.44 times as large. Against Pikine, Dakar follows Dakar → Senegal in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Senegal cohort, uses the shared Africa/Dakar identifier, and carries capital of a political entity rather than populated place. Its recorded population is above Pikine's. Against Pikine, 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 the same populated place class. Its recorded population is below Pikine's. Against Pikine, 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 capital of a political entity rather than populated place. Its recorded population is above Pikine's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 150 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Pikine'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 2246678, the coordinate pair 14.7646 / 17.3907, country rank 2 of 3, and neighbor GeoNames 2253354 at 9.748 km bind Pikine to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Pikine's reference point is 14.7646° north and 17.3907° west. The IANA identifier Africa/Dakar is shared by 3 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPL is shared by 243 rows. Pikine's row carries a first-order administrative label but no second-order label. Pikine's point falls in the near-equatorial coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Pikine's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Pikine, 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
Pikine's closest other entries in this atlas are Dakar (9.748 km), Touba (163.265 km), Nouakchott (398.83 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2026-06-22; 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.