Senegal
Senegal Senegal / country south of the Senegal River in West Africa. It gained its name from the river that borders it to the east and north and which originates from Futagon in Guinea Dakar, the capital of Senegal, is located on the western edge of the country on the Cape Verde peninsula. About 300 miles off the Atlantic coast, along the Cape Verde Islands. During the colonial era, he placed many trade offices, belonging to the various colonial empires, along the coast. St. Louis became the capital of French West Africa before its transfer to Dakar in 1902. Dakar later became the capital of Senegal in 1960 after independence from France The Senegalese landscape consists mainly of stepped sandy plains in the west coast, which rise to the foothills in the southeast. Here, too, I found the highest point in Senegal, otherwise an unnamed feature was 2.7 km southeast of Nippen-Diaga at 648 m (2,126 ft). The northern border consists of the Senegal Ri...