Senegal
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Country Profile
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: 18,847,519 (2024 est.)
Population
Growth Rate: 2.46% (2024 est.)
Ethnic groups: Wolof 39.7%, Pulaar 27.5%, Sereer 16%, Mandinka 4.9%, Jola 4.2%, Soninke 2.4%, other 5.4% (includes Europeans and persons of Lebanese descent) (2019 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.)
Capital
City: Dakar
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