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African Renaissance Monument, Saloum Delta, Senegambian stone circles and 7 more — what each one is, and why it is worth the detour.
Chosen from everything Wikidata knows about Senegal and ranked by how many Wikipedia language editions describe them, which is about as close to "famous" as open data gets. One is on UNESCO's World Heritage list.
Statue located outside of Dakar, Senegal
A bronze statue 50-metre tall on one of the twin hills called the Collines des Mamelles, outside Dakar, Senegal, looking out over the Atlantic from the Ouakam suburb. Designed by the Senegalese architect Pierre Goudiaby Atepa from an idea put forward by President Abdoulaye Wade, it was built by Mansudae Overseas Projects, a North Korean monument-building company.
Photo: Richard N Horne, CC BY 4.0
World Heritage
UNESCO World Heritage Site in Senegal
Also called the Sine-Saloum Delta, a river delta of 180,000 hectares in Senegal, where the Saloum River flows into the North Atlantic.
Photo: USGS, Public domain
Archaeological site in Senegal and the Gambia
Also called the Wassu stone circles, groups of megalithic stone circles in central Senegal and in the Gambia north of Janjanbureh, spread over an area of 30,000 km² (12,000 sq mi). They are sometimes split into Sine-Saloum (Senegalese) and Wassu (Gambian) circles, but only along national lines.
Photo: shaunamullally, CC BY-SA 2.0
Museum and memorial to enslaved people in Dakar, Senegal
Together with its Door of No Return, a museum and memorial on Gorée Island, 3 km out from Dakar, Senegal, honouring those who suffered in the Atlantic slave trade. Its museum, opened in 1962 and run by Boubacar Joseph Ndiaye until he died in 2009, is said to commemorate the last point from which enslaved people left Africa.
Photo: Nina Volare, CC BY-SA 2.0
Pink-colored lake in Senegal
Also called Lac Rose, a lake north of Senegal's Cape Verde peninsula, some 35 km (22 mi) north-east of Dakar, the capital. It is named for its pink water, coloured by the alga Dunaliella salina, and is known for being very salty, up to 40% in places.
Photo: DebyDB93, CC BY-SA 4.0
Art museum in Dakar, Senegal
One of West Africa's oldest art museums, in Dakar, Senegal, championed by LĂ©opold Senghor, the country's first President.
Photo: Ji-Elle, Public domain
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Mosque in Touba, Diourbel, Senegal
Founded in 1887 by Ahmadou Bamba and completed in 1963: the great mosque of the Senegalese city of Touba.
Photo: John Crane from Prague, Czech Republic, CC BY 2.0
Mosque in Dakar, Senegal
A mosque on Allée Pape Gueye Fall, in the médina of Dakar, Senegal.
Photo: Rignese, CC BY-SA 3.0
Road bridge in Senegal
A metal road bridge over the Senegal River linking the island city of Saint-Louis, Senegal, with the African mainland. Its length is 507.35 m (1,664.5 ft), its width 10.5 m (34 ft), and it weighs 1,500 t.
Photo: Ji-Elle, Public domain
Mosque in Dakar, Senegal
A mosque in the Senegalese city of Dakar.
Photo: Malickdieye38, CC BY-SA 4.0
Officially the Republic of Senegal, the westernmost country of mainland West Africa, on the Atlantic coast. Mauritania lies to its north, Mali to its east, Guinea to its southeast and Guinea-Bissau to its southwest. It almost encloses the Gambia, a narrow strip of land along the Gambia River that separates Casamance, Senegal's southern region, from the rest of the country.
Officially The Republic of Senegal.
Based on the Wikipedia article, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0: the facts are Wikipedia's, the wording is this site's.
This guide lists 10: African Renaissance Monument, Saloum Delta, Senegambian stone circles and House of Slaves and others. Saloum Delta is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
By machine, from open data, with no human ranking them and nobody able to pay for a place on the list. Everything Wikidata records in Senegal that is a building, a landform, a protected area or a tourist attraction, has coordinates, a photograph and an English Wikipedia article, is ranked by how many Wikipedia language editions wrote about it. Provinces, cities, airports, stations and stretches of sea shared with the neighbours are filtered out.
1 of the 10 in this guide: Saloum Delta. That is not the full count for Senegal, only the listed sites that made this guide.
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