Guédiawaye - Wikipedia
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Guédiawaye | |
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Guédiawaye | |
| Coordinates: 14°47′N 17°24′W / 14.783°N 17.400°W | |
| Country |  Senegal |
| Region | Dakar Region |
| Area | |
• Total | 13 km2 (5 sq mi) |
| Population (2013 census) | |
• Total | 329,659 |
| • Density | 25,000/km2 (66,000/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+0 (GMT) |
Guédiawaye is a city in the Guédiawaye Department of the Dakar Region of Senegal. Lying on the Atlantic Ocean to the northeast of Dakar city centre, in 2013 it had a population of 329,659. Until the mid-2000s, the département was part of Pikine.
For administrative purposes the town is also a single arrondissement divided into 5 communes d'arrondissement which are (2013 population in brackets):
- Golf Sud (92,345)
- Sam Notaire (78,660)
- Ndiarème Limamoulaye (35,171)
- Wakhinane Nimzatt (89,721)
- Médina Gounass (33,762)
The town was founded in the 1950s as a planned commuter town for the city of Dakar. It has a large covered market. A further, informal, community grew up adjacent to it from the 1960s.
Notable people from the town include the football goalkeeper Tony Sylva.
Twin towns and sister cities
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Guédiawaye is twinned with:
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Streets in the town
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Women at a sewing school
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- ^ "Guediawaye". Birmingham Sister Cities. Retrieved 2024-11-04.