Louga Region
Louga is a city and region of Senegal. The region is located to the northwest part of the country and Louga city is in the northwest of the region - about 50 km inland from the Atlantic coast.
Louga Region Région de Louga | |
|---|---|
 Location of Louga in Senegal | |
 Louga région, divided into 3 départements | |
| Coordinates: 15°16′N 15°31′W | |
| Country | Senegal |
| Capital | Louga |
| Départements | |
| Area | |
| • Total | 24,889 km2 (9,610 sq mi) |
| Population (2013 census) | |
| • Total | 835,325 |
| • Density | 34/km2 (87/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+0 (GMT) |
| HDI (2017) | 0.413[1] low |
Departments
Louga region is divided into 3 départements:
Geography
Louga is traversed by the northwesterly line of equal latitude and longitude.
gollark: Although sometimes there are issues, it's generally more "doing stupid things to appear safe" than "being too safe".
gollark: > I hate the safety focus of modern society. We should take more risks and be less opposed to death.Well, death bad.
gollark: Like, er, NFC?
gollark: There's also obviously Bluetooth and all the various other radio communication things.
gollark: 60GHz 802.11ad can probably do *gigabits* a second at shortish distances.
See also
References
- "Sub-national HDI - Area Database - Global Data Lab". hdi.globaldatalab.org. Retrieved 2018-09-13.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.