Guédiawaye is a city in the Guédiawaye Department of the Dakar Region of Senegal. Lying on the Atlantic Ocean to the northeast of Dakar city centre, in 2013 it had a population of 329,659. Until the mid-2000s, the département was part of Pikine.
Administration For administrative purposes the town is also a single arrondissement divided into 5 communes d'arrondissement which are (2013 population in brackets): Golf Sud (92,345) Sam Notaire (78,660) Ndiarème Limamoulaye (35,171) Wakhinane Nimzatt (89,721) Médina Gounass (33,762)
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 and sister cities Guédiawaye is twinned with: Birmingham, Alabama, United States. Tifariti, Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic.
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References
GeoHive: Senegal Mariko Shiohata, The Literacy Environment and the Acquisition and Application of Literacy: A case study from Senegal