Louga

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Louga

Total population

82,884

Elevation44 m

Coordinates15.61°, -16.22°

Demographic figures from ANSD Senegal. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.

City facts

Facts from Wikidata (CC0).

Overview

Louga is a city in northwestern Senegal. Louga is a cattle market centre, and has road and rail links with the port city of Saint-Louis to the northwest and Dakar to the southwest. The area surrounding Louga is at the northern limits of Senegal's peanut- (groundnut-) growing area and is inhabited by the Fulani, who are generally pastoral nomads, and the Wolof, who are sedentary farmers. Louga is located in what is called the Ndiambour, which used to be part of the Cayor province.

History & geography

Excerpted from the corresponding Wikipedia article (CC BY-SA).

Geography

Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.

Notable people from here

Abdou Diouf

Senegalese President

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Pape Omar Faye

Senegalese footballer

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Abdoulaye Seye Moreau

Senegalese basketball player (1929-2020)

Ibrahima Sidibe

Senegalese association football player

El Hadji Diouf

Senegalese association football player

Lamine Sakho

French and Senegalese footballer

Abbas Sall

Senegalese religious leader (1909–1990)

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Ahmadou Sakhir Lô

Aminata Mbengue Ndiaye

politician from Senegal

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Chérif Thiam

Senegalese painter

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Diassé Serigne Touba

Senegalese statistician and school teacher (1950-2008)

Haïdar El Ali

Senegal politician and ecologist

Khalifa Sall

Senegalese politician

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Moubarack Lô

Senegalese economist

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Papa Louis Fall

Senegalese politician

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Pathé Seck

politician

People born within ~10 km, from Wikidata (CC0). Click any name for their Wikipedia article.

Nearby places in Senegal

• Ngadji Sar
  18.6 mi away
• Ndoukoumane
  59.8 mi away
• Diayane None
  68.4 mi away
• Thiandene
  82.4 mi away
• Madina Ndiathbé
  146.2 mi away
• Konkoudia
  179.1 mi away
• Djinaky
  184.9 mi away
• Dianki
  190.6 mi away
• Khadara Bou el Harath
  252.7 mi away
• Chelkhat Ghiarhoum
  253.3 mi away
• Varele
  258.6 mi away
• Agoueida
  274.5 mi away

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Geography & sun

Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.

Public attention

Pageview totals from the Wikimedia Pageviews API.

Books about Louga

Elaboration du Vème Plan de développement économique et social, 1977-1981

Louga (Senegal : Region). Commission régionale de planification. · 1976

Louga et sa région (Sénégal)

Moustapha Sar · 1973

Monographie de la région de Louga

Senegal. Service régional de la statistique de Louga · 1987

Rapport de l'Étude sur la gouvernance du foncier agro-sylvo-pastoral dans les régions de Louga, Saint-Louis et Matam

CONGAD (Organization : Senegal) · 2012

Rapport d'avant-projet du schéma régional d'aménagement du territoire de Louga

Senegal. Commission régionale d'aménagement du territoire de la région de Louga · 1994

Enquête nationale

Oumar Diallo · 1997

Étude de la commercialisation de la volaille villageoise au Sénégal

Fidèle Constant Sikangueng Mbouga · 2014

Vai e vieni

2005

Search results from Open Library.

Recently spotted species

African baobab

Adansonia digitata

Seen 2026-07-06

Leptadenia lanceolata

Leptadenia lanceolata

Seen 2026-06-13

Blue-naped Mousebird

Urocolius macrourus

Seen 2026-03-11

giant milkweed

Calotropis procera

Seen 2026-02-01

White-backed Vulture

Gyps africanus

Seen 2026-01-19

Abyssinian Roller

Coracias abyssinicus

Seen 2026-01-11

Ana tree

Faidherbia albida

Seen 2026-01-11

Laughing Dove

Spilopelia senegalensis

Seen 2026-01-11

Chestnut-bellied Starling

Lamprotornis pulcher

Seen 2026-01-11

Research-grade observations from iNaturalist (within ~15 mi).