* Germaine Françoise Bocandé, L ’ implantation militaire française dans la région du Cap-Vert: causes, problèmes et conséquences des origines à 1900, Dakar, Université de Dakar, 1980, 112 pages ( Mémoire de Maîtrise )

Dakar, the capital city of Senegal, is located at the westernmost tip of the country on the Cap-Vert peninsula.

Dakar is the capital and largest city of Senegal.

According to December 31, 2005 official estimates, the city of Dakar proper has a population of 1, 030, 594, whereas the population of the Dakar metropolitan area is estimated at 2. 45 million people.

The city of Dakar is a commune, ( also sometimes known as commune de ville ), one of the 67 communes of Senegal.

The French later established the city of Dakar on the cape in 1857.

It is a chief source of fresh water for the city of Dakar, hundreds of kilometers to the south-west, through underground pipes.

Léopold Sédar Senghor was born on 9 October 1906 in the city of Joal, some one hundred kilometres south of Dakar.

Dakar, Senegal, received 25 mm ( 1 in ) of rain as the pre-Alberto tropical wave passed over the city.

A variety of labels in the city during the 1960s and 1970s contributed to the Chicago soul sound, most notably Vee-Jay, Constellation Records, Chess Records, Mercury Records, OKeh, ABC-Paramount, One-derful, Brunswick and its Dakar Records subsidiary, and Curtis Mayfield's Curtom label.

The city is on the railroad from Dakar to the Niger River in Mali.

In 1857, the French seized the inland region between these two from the Lebu Republic, and rechristened their capital Ndakarou as the new colonial city of Dakar.

Île de Gorée ( i. e. " Gorée Island "; () is one of the 19 communes d ' arrondissement ( i. e. " commune of arrondissement ") of the city of Dakar, Senegal.

mile ), which is only half the average density of the city of Dakar.

Now part of the city of Dakar, it was a minor port and site of European settlement along the coast.

Merchants from the city dominate the informal economy in most Guinean cities and are also economically active in cities further afield, such as Dakar, Bamako, Abidjan, Bissau and Freetown.

Tambacounda is the largest city in eastern Senegal, southeast of Dakar, and is the Regional capital of the province of the same name.

Historically, the city grew from a village along the Dakar – Bamako railway, built in the colonial period, and still used today, however passenger travel itself is limited.

Yoff is a town ( commune d ' arrondissement ) part of the city ( commune ) of Dakar.

The northern section near Dakar contains popular seaside resorts such as Saly-Portudal, Rufisque, Nianing and Popenguire, while the entire coast is home to the city of M ' Bour and fishing villages such as Toubab Dialao, Joal-Fadiout, Palmarin and Djiffer.

The Battle of Dakar ( 23 September to 25 September 1940 ) took place after Allied forces failed to persuade the Vichy French defenders of Dakar to allow them to peacefully enter the city.

Beavogui, a member of the Toma ethnic group, was born in Macenta, located in southern Guinea, and he was trained in the Senegalese city of Dakar to become a medic.

Dakar, as the former capital of French West Africa, is also home to banks and other institutions which serve all of Francophone West Africa, and is a hub for shipping and transport in the region.

Recent improvements now allow the A340-600 to make this run non-stop in both directions, but because SAA sees a market in West Africa, all flights between Johannesburg and Washington now go through Dakar, even in the US-to-South Africa direction.

Thereafter, all black Africans of Dakar, Gorée, Saint-Louis, and Rufisque could vote to send a representative to the French National Assembly.

It is similar in format to the Dakar Rally in that it takes place in desert conditions and cars, trucks, and motorcycles are all permitted to compete.

The national network of paved roads created after WWII likewise converged on Thiès, which thus commands nearly all access to the Cap-Vert Peninsula ( Dakar and Rufisque ).

In 1916 Diagne convinced the French parliament to approve a law ( Loi " Blaise Diagne ") granting full citizenship to all residents of the so-called Four Communes in Senegal: Dakar, Gorée, Saint-Louis, and Rufisque.

Immediately after the sixth session, held in Dakar in December, President de Gaulle agreed to Mali ’ s claim for national sovereignty, thus beginning the process that would see all of the states being granted independence in 1960.

Stars featured have included: Dizzee Rascal, Al Murray, Plan B, Alex James, Graham Coxon and Damon Albarn, former Madness singer / drummer / manager John Hasler, all 6 members of the reformed Specials, ex-Bodysnatcher and Madness collaborator Rhoda Dakar, Martin Freeman, Eamonn Holmes, Jeremy Clarkson, Lulu, and Peter Andre, as well as an Elvis Presley lookalike security guard from Australia.

In 1895, French Guinea was made a dependent colony, and its Governor then became a Lieutenant Governor to a Governor-General in Dakar.

Dakar became its capital in 1960 at the time of independence from France.

In 1857 the French established a military post at Ndakaaru ( which they called " Dakar ") and annexed the Lebou Republic, though its institutions continued to function nominally.

In its colonial heyday Dakar was one of the major cities of the French Empire, comparable to Hanoi or Beirut.

The commune of Dakar has been in continuous existence since 1887, being preserved by the new state of Senegal after independence in 1960, although its limits have varied considerably over time.

Russia is represented in The Gambia through its embassy in Dakar ( Senegal ).

The peninsula is shaped like a triangle ( about per side ), with the base of the triangle roughly along the north and its apex on the south, near Dakar.

* Mauritania had two High commissioners, after having been a protectorate since 12 May 1903 ( under a single military Commandant ), from 18 October 1904 the French civil territory of Mauritania under a Commissioner ( part of French West Africa ( AOF ); under its Governor-general in Dakar, Senegal ), and since 12 January 1920 a French colony under a Lieutenant governor ( many incumbents, again under Dakar ), on 28 November 1958 obtaining autonomy ( as Islamic Republic of Mauritania ):

South African Airways used Dakar as a stopover with both its flights from Johannesburg to Washington and New York.

When one draws a line from Cape Town to Cairo ( Rhodes ' dream ) and another line from Dakar to French Somaliland ( now Djibouti ) by the Red Sea in the Horn ( the French ambition ), these two lines intersect in eastern South Sudan near the town of Fashoda ( present-day Kodok ), explaining its strategic importance.

To coordinate its activities, IDRC has its head office in Ottawa and regional offices in Cairo, Dakar, Delhi, Montevideo, Nairobi, and Singapore.

Because of its strategic position ( Natal is one of the cities in Brazil nearest to Western Europe and Africa, especially Dakar, Senegal ), an American air base was built in a suburb of Natal named Parnamirim during World War II as part of the so-called Operation Rainbow ; this base provided support for allied troops combating in the north of Africa.

The T815 and its descendant models brought the Czech truck racer Karel Loprais to victory six times in the Paris Dakar Rally.

Senegal ’ s pro-Western stance increased its security worries since its neighboring countries might use either the Gambia, secessionists in the Casamance region ( the region of Senegal south of the Gambian border ), or other dissident groups to destabilize the Dakar government.

Polar 3, together with unharmed Polar 2, was on its way back from Antarctica and had taken off in Dakar, Senegal, to reach Arrecife, Canary Islands.

Consequently, its merchants established a presence directly on the mainland, first in Rufisque ( 1840 ) and then in Dakar ( 1857 ).

With the foundation of Dakar in 1857, Gorée gradually lost its importance.

However, as early as 1887, Dakar was detached from the commune of Gorée and was turned into a commune in its own right.

As proof of the airport's prestige, the Concorde made its scheduled maiden-flight with Air France on January 21, 1976, flying from Paris – Charles de Gaulle to Galeão via Dakar.