Thies is Senegal's third largest city, about 72 kilometers east of Dakar and a major railway junction, serving as capital of Thies Region. The French established a military post there in 1864 and made it a commune in 1904, and it grew in importance when the Dakar-Saint-Louis railway, French West Africa's first rail line, opened a stop there in 1885, with Leopold Sedar Senghor, later Senegal's first president, elected the city's mayor in 1956. Its 2023 population was 391,253. Thies is known for a tapestry factory established in 1966 that produces work by leading Senegalese artists, and it serves as an industrial and agricultural trading center for phosphate, livestock, rice, peanuts and millet.
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1. GeoNames: Thiès
GeoNames geonameid 2244802 (Thiès), cities500/allCountries bulk dump, matched by primary name + country + coordinates within 25km (w-bbfill-geography6-0926)View the Source 2. 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 14.75, -16.75Quote, Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 14.75, -16.75
14.75 -16.75 BSh
3. GeoNames: Thiès - GeoNames
GeoNamescities500 record 2244802, place matched by name within the country (only place of that name in the country)Quote, cities500 record 2244802, place matched by name within the country (only place of that name in the country)
14.78944 -16.92602 P PPLA2 SN 07 317763 72 Africa/Dakar
Thies (Wikipedia)
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