Guédiawaye

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Guédiawaye
Town
Guédiawaye
Coordinates: 14°47′N 17°24′W / 14.783°N 17.400°W / 14.783; -17.400
Country  Senegal
Region Dakar Region
Time zone GMT (UTC+0)
Location of Guédiawaye

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.

History

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.

Notable people from the town include the football goalkeeper Tony Sylva.

Twin towns - sister cities

Guédiawaye is twinned with:

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Coordinates: 14°47′N 17°24′W / 14.783°N 17.400°W / 14.783; -17.400

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