- Guédiawaye
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subdivision_name1 =Dakar Region
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footnotes =Guédiawaye is a town and "département" of the
Dakar Region ofSenegal . Lying on theAtlantic Ocean to the north east ofDakar city centre, in 2005 it had a population of 280,353. Until the mid-2000s, the département was part ofPikine .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. Its sister city is Birmingham,Alabama .Notable people from the town include the footballer
Tony Sylva .References
* [http://www.xist.org/cntry/senegal.aspx GeoHive: Senegal]
*Mariko Shiohata, [http://portal.unesco.org/education/en/file_download.php/dd81f08d3383a1bf63ef5097ac5c73baShiohata_M.doc The Literacy Environment and the Acquisition and Application of Literacy: A case study from Senegal]
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