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Bignona Department

department of Senegal
Administrative Area Department of Senegal Q2087854

Facts

10 properties

Identity

Instance of
department of Senegal

Location

Country
Senegal[2]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 12.812°, -16.230°
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Ziguinchor Region[1]
Shares border with
Oussouye Department, Ziguinchor Department, Sédhiou Department, Bounkiling Department[4][5][6][7]

Population and size

Area
5,321 km²[17]
Elevation above sea level
30 m[16]
Population
220,104 (2002), 252,556 (2013)[14][15]
⚖ sources disagree Wikidata 220,104 · 252,556 GeoNames 284,897 edition 2026-09-26 · CC BY 4.0 ↗
More facts +2
Capital
Bignona[3]
Contains the administrative territorial entity
Kataba I Arrondissement, Tenghori Arrondissement, Tendouck Arrondissement, Sindian Arrondissement, Bignona, Diouloulou (?–2021), Thionck Essyl[8][9][10][11][12][13]
🏷️ Also known as
en Bignona Department ar قسم بيغنونا de Département Bignona es Departamento de Bignona fa بیگنونا fi Bignonan departementti fr département de Bignona it dipartimento di Bignona ja ビニョナ県 ko 비뇨나현 pt Bignona ru Бигнона uk Бігнона zh 比尼奧納省
🔖 Identifiers · 6
Freebase ID
/m/02ppntn
GNS Unique Feature ID
-2,265,945
GeoNames ID
2253903
INaturalist place ID
43971
OpenStreetMap relation ID
5568664
Who's on First ID
421203235
📚 Sources · 1
  • GeoNames as of 2026-09-26 · 1 statement · CC BY 4.0 CC BY 4.0 — attribution: GeoNames (www.geonames.org), licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Values as shipped.

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Source
GeoNames
Edition
20260926 · as of 2026-09-26
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Credit
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Bronze
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🔗 Connections
Contained subdivisions 4
Bignona, Thionck Essyl, Abéné, Baïla
Shares border with 4
Oussouye Department, Ziguinchor Department, Sédhiou Department, Bounkiling Department
← Shares border with 4
Oussouye Department, Ziguinchor Department, Sédhiou Department, Bounkiling Department
Contains the administrative territorial entity 2
Bignona, Thionck Essyl
Capital 1
Bignona
Country 1
Senegal
Instance of 1
department of Senegal
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Ziguinchor Region
← Capital of 1
Bignona
← Contains the administrative territorial entity 1
Ziguinchor Region
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Senegal

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . GEOnet Names Server. wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [1] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  11. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [16] ↑ . GeoNames. wikidata.org.
  17. [17] ↑ . citypopulation.de. citypopulation.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 27w ago · Brühl · 2026-05-07 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → department of Senegal
    Contains the administrative territorial entity → Kataba I Arrondissement, Tenghori Arrondissement, Tendouck Arrondissement +2
    Area → 5,321 square kilometre
    Shares border with → Oussouye Department, Ziguinchor Department, Sédhiou Department +1
    + 6 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "Changed claim: Contains the administrative territorial entity: Diouloulou"
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