Guédiawaye
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  Guédiawaye
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| Country |  Senegal |
| Region | Dakar Region |
| Time zone | GMT (UTC+0) |
Guédiawaye is a town and département of the Dakar Region of Senegal. Lying on the Atlantic Ocean to the north east of Dakar city centre, in 2005 it had a population of 280,353. Until the mid-2000s, the département was part of Pikine.
The town was founded in the 1950s as a planned commuter town for the city of Dakar. It has a large covered market. A further, informal, community grew up adjacent to it from the 1960s. Its sister city is Birmingham, Alabama.
Notable people from the town include the footballer Tony Sylva.
[edit] References
- GeoHive: Senegal
- Mariko Shiohata, The Literacy Environment and the Acquisition and Application of Literacy: A case study from Senegal
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