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Louga
Louga, Senegal · Africa
About Louga
Louga sits on the route: 25 minutes from Guéoul.
Louga is in Senegal, with about 110,000 people. The nearest town is Guéoul, about 20 km away.
Louga (Arabic: لوجا; Wolof: Luga) is a city in northwestern Senegal. Louga is a cattle market centre, and has road and rail links with the port city of Saint-Louis to the northwest and Dakar to the southwest. The area surrounding Louga is at the northern limits of Senegal's peanut- (groundnut-) growing area and isRead more
inhabited by the Fulani, who are generally pastoral nomads, and the Wolof, who are sedentary farmers. Louga is located in what is called the Ndiambour, which used to be part of the Cayor province.
In 2023, according to official figures from the National Agency for Statistics and Demography (ANSD), Louga had a population of 113,365 inhabitants.
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Louga is in Louga, Senegal, about 20 km from Guéoul.
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- Population
- 113,365
- Continent
- Africa
- Country
- Senegal
- Region
- Louga
- Timezone
- Africa/Dakar
- Coordinates
- 15.6187, -16.2244
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