CBBC Newsround | WORLD | Country profile: Senegal

Updated 23 January 2003, 10.10

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Population: 10 million
Capital city: Dakar
Languages spoken: French (official), Wolof
Major religion: Islam
Fascinating Fact: Senegal is on the western-most part of the bulge of Africa and includes desert in the north and a moist, tropical south. Slaves, ivory and gold were exported from the coast during the 17th and 18th centuries.

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