Guédiawaye



Guédiawaye is a town and département of the Dakar Region of Senegal. Lying on the Atlantic Ocean to the north east 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 - sister cities
Guédiawaye is twinned with:
 * 🇺🇸Birmingham, Alabama, United States.
 * 🇪🇭Tifariti, Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic.