!!!Senegal: Geography
||Location|Western Africa, bordering the North Atlantic Ocean, between Guinea-Bissau and Mauritania
||Geographic Coordinates|14 00 N, 14 00 W[{GoogleMap location='14.0,-14.0' zoom='4'}]
||Area |''total: ''196,722 sq km\\''land: ''192,530 sq km\\''water: ''4,192 sq km__\\''We are unable to verify those figures from Factbook, since the 6 main sources we used for checking give different figures as follows:\\[Factbook|https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook]: 196722\\ [DBpedia|http://dbpedia.org]: 196723\\ [Geoname|http://www.geonames.org]: 196190\\ [Infoplease|http://www.infoplease.com]: 196190\\ [Britannica|http://www.britannica.com]: 196722\\ [Wolfram|http://www.wolframalpha.com]: 196722''__\\__Attempted Explanation__: Please help us to try to explain the discrepancies by sending us helpful information to [office@global-geography.org|mailto:office@global-geography.org]
||Land boundaries|''total: ''2,640 km\\''border countries: ''The Gambia 740 km, Guinea 330 km, Guinea-Bissau 338 km, Mali 419 km, Mauritania 813 km
||Coastline|531 km
||Elevation Extremes|''lowest point: ''Atlantic Ocean 0 m\\''highest point: ''unnamed elevation southwest of Kedougou 581 m
||Highest Mountains|
||Terrain|generally low, rolling, plains rising to foothills in southeast
||Natural Hazards|lowlands seasonally flooded; periodic droughts
||Natural Resource|fish, phosphates, iron ore
||Land Use|''arable land: ''19.57%\\''permanent crops: ''0.28%\\''other: ''80.15% (2011)
||Climate|tropical; hot, humid; rainy season (May to November) has strong southeast winds; dry season (December to April) dominated by hot, dry, harmattan wind
||Irrigated Land|1,197 sq km (2003)
||Renewable Water Resources|38.8 cu km (2011)
||Environment_CurrentIssues|wildlife populations threatened by poaching; deforestation; overgrazing; soil erosion; desertification; overfishing
||Environment - international agreements|''party to: ''Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Endangered Species, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Marine Life Conservation, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Wetlands, Whaling\\''signed, but not ratified: ''none of the selected agreements
||Large Cities|__Due to difference in city rankings taken from two data sources we are listing here both lists :__\\According to [Wolfram|http://www.wolframalpha.com]: Dakar; Thies; Kaolack; Mbour; Saint-Louis\\According to [Geonames|http://www.geonames.org]: Dakar; Grand Dakar; Pikine; Touba; Thiès Nones\\\\\__Attempted Explanation:__ Please help us to try to explain the discrepancies by sending us helpful information to [office@global-geography.org|mailto:office@global-geography.org] \\[Important Cities|Geography/Africa/Senegal/Geography/Important_Cities]
||Geography-note|westernmost country on the African continent; The Gambia is almost an enclave within Senegal