Senegal Map with Regions

Senegal has 14 regions, and it has had 14 since 2008. Loi n° 2008-14 created Kaffrine, Kédougou and Sédhiou out of Kaolack, Tambacounda and Kolda, and the change took effect on 10 September 2008. Older sources that list 7, 10 or 11 regions describe the country before that law. The other 11 are Dakar, Diourbel, Fatick, Kaolack, Kolda, Louga, Matam, Saint-Louis, Tambacounda, Thiès and Ziguinchor. All 14 are drawn on this map as separate regions, each with its own code beginning SN-, and the departments inside them are not drawn.

Tambacounda takes the most space of the 14 regions, covering 42,613 km² in the ANSD's 2023 census report. Matam follows with 28,830 km² and Louga with 25,619 km². The region sits in the east and touches Mauritania, Mali, Guinea and The Gambia. It is smaller than it once was: Kédougou, which covers 16,904 km² in the 2023 figures, was split from it in 2008, so figures from before that year show a larger Tambacounda than the one drawn on this map.

At 535 km² in the ANSD's 2023 census report, Dakar is the smallest of Senegal's regions. It occupies the Cap-Vert peninsula, with the sea on three sides and Thiès as its only land neighbor, so it has no foreign border. The next smallest, Diourbel at 4,860 km², is about nine times as large, and Tambacounda is roughly eighty times larger. Because Dakar is so small, it is easy to miss at country scale, so zoom in or add a pin when you want it to stand out.

Dakar has 4,004,426 residents in the 2023 census (ANSD), more than any other region and about 22% of the 18,126,388 residents counted across the 14 regions. They share 535 km², the smallest region in the country. Thiès comes next with 2,463,677 residents and Diourbel with 2,080,333, so these three regions together hold roughly 47% of all residents, while the other 11 share the remaining 53%. At the other end, Kédougou has 245,147 residents, under 2% of the total, in the southeast corner beside Mali and Guinea.

Each of Senegal's 14 regions has a capital with the same name as the region. Under the decree of 28 May 2021 the pairs are Dakar, Diourbel, Fatick, Kaffrine, Kaolack, Kédougou, Kolda, Louga, Matam, Saint-Louis, Sédhiou, Tambacounda, Thiès and Ziguinchor. Dakar is also the national capital. The map's city layer marks only some of these towns, so Kaffrine, Matam and Sédhiou do not appear as points, although their regions are drawn. Kédougou is drawn without the capital flag, but its region is colored like the rest.

No. Senegal's departments are the level below the regions, and this map draws only the regions. Counts for the departments vary between sources, so the page gives no figure for them. The Dakar region alone contains five: Dakar, Pikine, Guédiawaye, Rufisque and Keur Massar. If your data is by department, add the departments up to their region before you color the map. The 2023 census report publishes its area table by region, so the region figures on this page match it.

No. Senegal has no states or provinces. Its first-level divisions are the 14 regions, a set unchanged since 2008, when Kaffrine, Kédougou and Sédhiou were added. Since the 2013 Acte III reform the regions have no elected council: the Code général des collectivités locales names only the department and the commune as local governments, so local budgets and elections sit at those two levels. Other West African countries in this series use their own words, with departments in Benin and regions in Niger and Togo, as in Senegal.

You can make a custom map of Senegal in the Ultimaps editor, which is free and needs no account. Start from this map, color the 14 regions by your own figures or by hand, add pins for towns such as Touba or Saint-Louis, and share or embed the result. Free exports are standard PNG files with a small Ultimaps credit. High-resolution PNG, SVG and PDF come with the Pro plan. To color from a table, enter one value per region, using names or codes such as SN-TC. The former names Cap-Vert and Sénégal Oriental also match.