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Senegal: 14 provinces, states and territories

Every administrative level, from the 14 first-level units down to ADM3, on a terrain map with people, density and sources.

Map All units Country map
Page GRX-SEN-REdition Baseline Edition 2026Evidence close 2026-09-30ISO SEN / SNStatus UN member stateValues not yet publishedMethod v1.0.0-draft
14
first-level units
180
units at 3 levels
17,006,788
people (GHSL 2025)
Terrain
open relief

01Map

Senegal by province, state and territory

14 first-level units and 45 second-level units inside them, raised by people per km² over the population grid and terrain. Select a unit to drill in or open its page.

FIG 1 · 14 first-level units of Senegal
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Units rise with people per km² · GHSL 2025 raster · terrain · ADM1 ADM2Risk values when released
Lowest fifthLow fifthMiddle fifthHigh fifthHighest fifthNo data
Column height and colour show people per km² by unit, in quantile fifths among the units shown (the key on the map gives the breaks); units with no people on the grid are grey, not the lowest class; the raster beneath is the GHSL 2025 population grid. Source observations, not index values. Choose a humanitarian figure from the list to colour and raise the units by it; each figure shows its source on the unit page. Select a unit to drill into the units inside it; the path above the map climbs back.
02Levels

Every administrative level of Senegal

Each level comes from the boundary source admitted for that country and level, with its own licence.

ADM1
14 first-level units · geoBoundaries gbOpen · Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO) · each with its own page
ADM2
45 second-level units · geoBoundaries gbOpen · Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO) · each with its own page
ADM3
121 third-level units · geoBoundaries gbOpen · Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO) · in the maps, tables and downloads of the pages above
03Units

All 14 first-level units

Two population estimates from open grids, summed inside each boundary. The CSV carries the first two levels; each unit page carries the levels below it.

Boundary licences: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO)

Unit Ikhowudi People (GHSL) People (WorldPop) Area km² Per km² Share Coast ≤ 10 m
Dakar SN-DK 2,627,413 2,833,789 546 4,812 15.4% 1,281,595
Diourbel SN-DB 2,076,594 2,190,833 4,878 426 12.2% 32,019
Fatick SN-FK 969,603 914,080 7,076 137 5.7% 483,727
Kaffrine SN-KA 795,161 839,997 11,086 72 4.7% 60,425
Kaolack SN-KL 1,303,778 1,350,457 5,285 247 7.7% 421,621
Kedougou SN-KE 209,870 253,828 16,858 12 1.2% 0
Kolda SN-KD 956,498 972,085 13,781 69 5.6% 16,553
Louga SN-LG 1,224,541 1,194,015 25,743 48 7.2% 25,158
Matam SN-MT 822,766 891,396 28,960 28 4.8% 1,625
Saint Louis SN-SL 1,165,302 1,179,997 19,040 61 6.9% 681,711
Sedhiou SN-SE 632,879 600,249 7,375 86 3.7% 99,013
Tambacounda SN-TC 998,772 1,050,432 42,783 23 5.9% 2,907
Thies SN-TH 2,463,067 2,599,989 6,614 372 14.5% 320,990
Ziguinchor SN-ZG 760,544 616,846 7,384 103 4.5% 287,934
04Umngcipheko

Subnational risk products

Values when released. Subnational risk values for Senegal publish with the edition from The Global Risks Index, with intervals and sources. Until then these pages show boundaries, people and exposure only.
05Imithombo

Sources, credits and licences

ADM1 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen SEN ADM1, source: Government of Senegal, OCHA ROWCA, licence: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO) · source · represents 2019
ADM2 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen SEN ADM2, source: Government of Senegal, OCHA ROWCA, licence: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO) · source · represents 2019
ADM3 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen SEN ADM3, source: Government of Senegal, OCHA ROWCA, licence: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO) · source · represents 2019
Basemap
OpenFreeMap © OpenMapTiles (CC BY 4.0) · data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0). Vector tiles requested by the reader’s browser, unmodified; the map falls back to plain land and sea when the host does not answer.
Terrain
Terrain Tiles (Mapzen, AWS Open Data), compiled from SRTM and other public elevation sources (NASA, USGS, ETOPO1, GMTED, EU-DEM under the Copernicus programme, Geoscience Australia, Kartverket, INEGI, LINZ, data.gov.uk). Display relief, not survey data.
People
GHSL 2025 population grid, European Commission Joint Research Centre (CC BY 4.0), shown at 0.05° and summed per unit; WorldPop 2025 (CC BY 4.0) as a second estimate. Units smaller than a grid cell take the density of the cell under them.
Amazwe
Natural Earth (public domain).
Elevation
GEBCO Compilation Group (2024) GEBCO 2024 Grid (public domain), reduced to 0.05°: the share of each cell’s land at or below 10 m, weighted by GHSL 2025 people for the low coastal zone.
Position
Boundaries are shown for location only and take no position on any boundary, name or status.

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