Senegal

[ sen-i-gawl, -gahl ]

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noun

a republic in western Africa, bordered on the west by the Atlantic Ocean and on the east by Mali. 76,084 square miles (197,057 square kilometers). : Dakar.
a river in western Africa, flowing northwest from eastern Mali to the Atlantic Ocean at Saint-Louis in Senegal. About 1,000 miles (1,600 kilometers) long.

Senegal

/ ˌsɛnɪˈɡɔːl /

a republic in West Africa, on the Atlantic: made part of French West Africa in 1895; became fully independent in 1960; joined with The Gambia to form the Confederation of Senegambia (1982–89); mostly low-lying, with semidesert in the north and tropical forest in the southwest Official language: French. Religion: Muslim majority. Currency: franc. Capital: Dakar. Pop: 13 300 410 (2013 est). Area: 197 160 sq km (76 124 sq miles)

Senegal

Republic in western Africa , bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west, Mauritania to the north, Mali to the east, and Guinea and Guinea-Bissau to the south. Dakar is the capital and largest city.

Senegal was a French colony from 1895 to 1958. It became fully independent in 1960.

Origin of Senegal¹

First recorded in 1750–60; from French Sénégal, named after the Senegal River

He set off from the coast of Senegal in a 24ft homemade rowboat.

An even more advanced boat was built and Mooney returned to Senegal in 2011 for his third attempt.

There are just over 500 military service members in West Africa, serving in Senegal and Liberia.

“My first act of political activism was when I was at Occidental College,” he said in Senegal, on his 2013 trip to Africa.

Rather, we must learn as we go, so that Senegal can be used as a model for transformational change at the grassroots level.

Determined to give France no commercial advantage, he refused to cede either Senegal or Goree.

This colossus of the vegetable world was discovered in Senegal by the French botanist Adanson, in 1749.

The first Negroes we meet with are those on the south of the Senegal.

Dread is that shore between Susa and Senegal, on the western edge of Africa,—by mariners most dreaded of any other in the world.

The steamer lands you at the entrance to the Senegal, in a country which has belonged to France for centuries.

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