Matam Region
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Matam is a region of Senegal (regional capitals have the same name as their respective regions).
It is a starkly beautiful, flat, arid place bounded on the north by the Sénégal River and the south by the Sahelian plain studded with Baobab trees made famous in Le Petit Prince. A land populated by the tall noble Pulaar-speaking Touceuleur people who brought Islam to Senegal in the 18th century and gave us the music of Baaba Maal in the 21st.
[edit] Departments
Matam region is divided into 3 departments:
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| Dakar | Diourbel | Fatick | Kaolack | Kolda | Louga | Matam | Saint-Louis | Tambacounda | Thiès | Ziguinchor | |
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