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Louga

Western Africa

Louga is a city in northwestern Senegal that serves as a cattle market center, with road and rail links to the port city of Saint-Louis to the northwest and Dakar to the southwest. It lies at the northern limits of Senegal's peanut-growing area, in a region called the Ndiambour that was once part of the Cayor province, and is inhabited by the pastoral Fulani and the sedentary farming Wolof peoples.

Facts
Population
113,365 1
Elevation (m)
44 2
Latitude
15.616667 degrees north 2
Longitude
16.216667 degrees west 2
Elevation Band
Lowland 3
Climate Zone
Dry 4
Time Zone
UTC+00:00 3
Sources
1. GeoNames: Louga
GeoNames geonameid 2249222 (Louga), cities500/allCountries bulk dump, matched by primary name + country + coordinates within 25km (w-bbfill-geography6-0926)View the Source
2. Louga (Wikidata)
  • P625 (coordinate location)
    latitude 15.616667, longitude -16.216667
  • P2044 (elevation above sea level)
    elevation 44 m
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3. GeoNames: Louga - GeoNames
GeoNames
  • cities500 record 2249222
    15.61867 -16.22436 P PPLA SN 13 113365 42 Africa/Dakar
  • Place record, elevation
    Elevation ca. 42 m
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4. Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna): World Map of the Koeppen-Geiger Climate Classification, present climate data
Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna)Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 15.75, -16.25
Quote, Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 15.75, -16.25
15.75 -16.25 BWh
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Louga (Wikipedia)
In Group: Cities of Western Africa (World), Wikipedia; part-of country and UN M49 subregionView the Source
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