Dakar

Senegal

Dakar is the capital and largest city of Senegal. The department of Dakar has a population of 1,278,469, and the population of the Dakar metropolitan area was at 4.0 million in 2023.

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Country: Senegal
Population: 2,604,000
Latitude: 14.72° N
Longitude: 17.48° O

Which way is Dakar from…

From Paris, Dakar lies at 212° to the south-west, 4,205 km as the crow flies.

Paris	212° south-west	4,205 km
London	207° south-west	4,374 km
New York	101° east	6,143 km
Madrid	209° south-west	3,154 km
Rome	233° south-west	4,171 km
Montreal	104° east	6,225 km
Saint-Denis, Réunion	290° west	8,888 km

Bearings as the crow flies (great circle), measured from north. From somewhere else, the bearing changes: that’s the whole game.

Oùcécap’s take

Dakar shares its latitude with Guatemala City and Manila. From London, aim south-west, at 207°, for 4,374 km. Across the Atlantic, the flat map misleads: from New York it would point to 118°, south-east, while the compass says 101°, east. As for neighbours, Senegal’s capital has Banjul 170 km to the south-east and Nouakchott 407 km to the north-east.