Map of Senegal

Senegal is located in Africa. Its territory lies in the northern and western hemispheres, centred near 14.0° N, 14.0° W. It shares land borders with 5 countries — Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Mali and Mauritania — and also has its own coastline. Within Africa, a continent of 54 countries bordered by the Atlantic Ocean and the Indian Ocean, Senegal is mapped here in full with its borders, capital and key facts.

Senegal shares land frontiers with the following 5 countries. Select any neighbour to open its own map.

Senegal covers about 196,722 km² (75,955 sq mi). That makes it the 86th-largest country in the world by area and the 34th-largest in Africa, larger by area than 20 of the continent’s 54 countries.

It is home to a population of roughly 18,593,258, the 69th-largest in the world and the 25th-largest in Africa, accounting for about 1.3% of the continent’s people. With that land area, Senegal has an average population density of about 95 people per km². Among the 54 countries of Africa it stands 25th by population and 34th by area.

The seat of government is Dakar, and the official currency is the West African CFA franc (XOF, Fr), and the main official language is French. Traffic drives on the right, and the country observes the time zone UTC.

Senegal carries the ISO country codes SN and SEN, dials on the international calling code +221 and uses the .sn internet domain.

Senegal shares its land borders with 5 countries, each of which is mapped in full on this site. Listed from the most to the least populous, here is how they compare.

Its neighbours are Mali (capital Bamako, about 22,395,489 people), Guinea (capital Conakry, about 14,363,931 people), Mauritania (capital Nouakchott, about 4,927,532 people), Gambia (capital Banjul, about 2,422,712 people) and Guinea-Bissau (capital Bissau, about 1,781,308 people).

By area, Senegal is larger than 2 of these neighbours and smaller than 3 of them, which places its size in context along its own frontiers. Open any neighbour above to see its capital, borders and full set of facts on its own map.

The interactive map above is centred on 14.0° N, 14.0° W and opens at zoom level 6, framing Senegal within Africa. A marker pin sits at the country’s approximate geographic centre; drag the map or use scroll and pinch to move from a regional overview down to the streets of Dakar. The map is drawn from OpenStreetMap data, the same open dataset used across this site, so place names, roads and coastlines stay consistent from one country to the next.

Senegal lies about 1,554 km from the equator, in the northern and western hemispheres of the globe. Zoom out to see how its coastline and land borders meet the wider region.

Senegal keeps a single standard time zone, UTC. That figure is the country’s offset from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the modern reference that for everyday purposes matches Greenwich Mean Time, so local clocks sit +00:00 relative to UTC before any seasonal daylight saving change.

The official currency is the West African CFA franc (XOF, Fr).

The official language is French, which is what appears on signs, documents and many of the place labels you will see on the map.

For practical reference, vehicles drive on the right-hand side of the road, the international dialling code is +221 and websites commonly use the .sn internet domain.

In short, Senegal is a coastal country in Africa, sharing land borders with 5 countries. Its capital is Dakar. Senegal has a population of about 18,593,258 and covers around 196,722 km² (75,955 sq mi), ranking it 69th in the world by population and 86th by area. The interactive map, facts table and questions on this page bring those details together in one place for Senegal.

The flag of Senegal is composed of three equal vertical bands of green, golden-yellow and red, with a five-pointed green star centered in the golden-yellow band.

The flag of Senegal is shown above as an emoji, rendered by your device’s own font; see it alongside every other nation on the flags of the world page.