Pikine

Pikine is a city in the same department at the car slopes Thies -Dakar in the Dakar region, immediately east of the provincial capital of Senegal located.

The young city had one estimate in 2005 a population of 834 246 and is growing strongly. The department includes the places Yeumbeul, Thiaroye, Keur Massar Malika and Mbao. By the middle of the first decade of the 21st century. was also Guédiawaye included.

The foundation of the city was carried out by the former French colonial government, the inhabitants of Dakar relocated referred to in the Old Pikine area today. Around it were extensive suburbs. City rights were granted Pikine 1983. The accelerating population growth is caused among other things by rural-urban migration because of desertification in many areas of Senegal.

In Pikine one of the largest companies in the country, the Industries chimiques du Sénégal (ICS ) is.

In the north- west of the city lies with Niaye Grande de Pikine an area full of outdoor nurseries.

Larger areas of the erected for parts in wetlands Pikine are affected by annual floods. Climate refugees looking over Nouadhibou in Mauritania in small boats to reach the 1500 km distant Canary islands themselves.

Personalities ( in alphabetical order)

• Abdou Khadre Guirassy (* 1989), football player
• Mamy Ndiaye ( born 1986 ), football player
• Christian Sagna ( b. 1982 ), football player