Overview

Senegal covers 196,722 km², with roughly 7.2 million hectares of arable land and 2.1% water coverage. Its 18 million people belong to 20 ethnic groups practicing Islam, Christianity, and animism, with beaches, 2 major navigable rivers, mangroves, savanna, desert, 2 international airports, 4 ports, a railway, a good road network, 4 major hydroelectric plants, 7 cities above 170,000 inhabitants, and one city of 4,000,000.