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Location: West Africa, bordering the North Atlantic Ocean, between Guinea-Bissau and Mauritania
Geographical
Size: land: 192,530 sq km, water: 4,192 sq km
Climate: tropical; hot, humid; rainy season (May to November) has strong southeast winds; dry season (December to April) dominated by hot, dry, harmattan wind
Population: 15,020,945 (July
2018 est.)
Population
Growth Rate: 2.36% (2018 est.)
Languages: French (official), Wolof, Pular, Jola, Mandinka, Serer, Soninke
Religion: Muslim 95.9% (most adhere to one of the four main Sufi brotherhoods), Christian 4.1% (mostly Roman
Catholic) (2016 est.)
Government
Type: presidential republic
Capital
City: Dakar
Economy: Senegal’s economy is driven by mining, construction, tourism, fisheries and agriculture
GDP
(Purchase power parity): $54.8 billion (2017 est.)
Communications: Fixed line telephone 290,636 (2017 est.) Mobile Cellular 15,758,366 (2017 est.) Internet users 3,675,209 (July 2016 est.)
Information and map From
CIA