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 Touba—1,120,824, 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 Touba is GeoNames ID 2244322. Its recorded administrative path is Diourbel Region → Senegal, and GeoNames classifies the place as a populated place. Touba 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 2025-12-15; 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, Touba ranks 481 by recorded population. Inside the 3 selected Senegal entries it ranks 3; inside the 243 entries in its broad region it ranks 98. Its 1,120,824 population value is 0.96 times the 1,170,791 median for the country cohort and 1.24 times the 902,588 regional median. Touba is rank 3 among the 3 selected Senegal entries, so a percentage band would overstate this small cohort. Touba'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.
Touba's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Pikine at 163.265 km with 1,170,791 recorded people; Dakar at 169.704 km with 2,646,503 recorded people; Nouakchott at 358.608 km with 1,184,530 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 195.343 km. Compared with Pikine, Touba's recorded population is 0.96 times as large. Against Touba, Pikine 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 the same populated place class. Its recorded population is above Touba's. Against Touba, 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 Touba's. Against Touba, Nouakchott follows Mauritania in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower 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 Touba's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 905 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Touba's nearest-coordinate gap belongs to the wider half of atlas distances. 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 2244322, the coordinate pair 14.8623 / 15.8753, country rank 3 of 3, and neighbor GeoNames 2246678 at 163.265 km bind Touba to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Touba's reference point is 14.8623° north and 15.8753° 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. Touba's row carries a first-order administrative label but no second-order label. Touba's point falls in the near-equatorial coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Touba's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Touba, 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
Touba's closest other entries in this atlas are Pikine (163.265 km), Dakar (169.704 km), Nouakchott (358.608 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2025-12-15; 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.