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Area: total: 196,190 sq km
land: 192,000 sq km
water: 4,190 sq km

Climate: tropical hot, humid rainy season [May to November] has strong southeast winds dry season [December to April] dominated by hot, dry, harmattan wind

Terrain: generally low, rolling, plains rising to foothills in southeast

Natural resources: fish, phosphates, iron ore

Population: 12,853,259 [July 2008 est.]

Age structure: 0-14 years: 41.9% [male 2,717,257/female 2,668,602]
15-64 years: 55.1% [male 3,524,683/female 3,552,643]
65 years and over: 3% [male 183,188/female 206,886] [2008 est.]

Nationality: noun: Senegalese [singular and plural]
adjective: Senegalese

Ethnic groups: Wolof 43.3%, Pular 23.8%, Serer 14.7%, Jola 3.7%, Mandinka 3%, Soninke 1.1%, European and Lebanese 1%, other 9.4%

Languages: French [official], Wolof, Pulaar, Jola, Mandinka

Capital: name: Dakar
geographic coordinates: 14 40 N, 17 26 W
time difference: UTC 0 [5 hours ahead of Washington, DC during Standard Time]

National holiday: Independence Day, 4 April [1960]

GDP - composition by sector: agriculture: 16.7%
industry: 18.9%
services: 64.4% [2007 est.]

Labor force: 4.85 million [2007 est.]

Budget: revenues: $2.271 billion
expenditures: $2.815 billion [2007 est.]

Agriculture - products: peanuts, millet, corn, sorghum, rice, cotton, tomatoes, green vegetables cattle, poultry, pigs fish

Industries: agricultural and fish processing, phosphate mining, fertilizer production, petroleum refining iron ore, zircon, and gold mining, construction materials, ship construction and repair

Exports: $1.604 billion f.o.b. [2007 est.]

Exports - commodities: fish, groundnuts [peanuts], petroleum products, phosphates, cotton

Exports - partners: Mali 19.2%, France 8.3%, India 5.8%, The Gambia 5.3%, Spain 5.1%, Italy 4.9% [2006]

Imports: $3.27 billion f.o.b. [2007 est.]

Imports - commodities: food and beverages, capital goods, fuels

Imports - partners: France 25.1%, UK 5.2%, Thailand 4.8%, China 4.5%, Spain 4% [2006]

Currency (code): Communaute Financiere Africaine franc [XOF] note - responsible authority is the Central Bank of the West African States

Exchange rates: Communaute Financiere Africaine francs [XOF] per US dollar - 481.83 [2007], 522.89 [2006], 527.47 [2005], 528.29 [2004], 581.2 [2003]
note: since 1 January 1999, the XOF franc has been pegged to the euro at a rate of 655.957 XOF francs per euro

Airports: 20 [2007]

Railways: total: 906 km
narrow gauge: 906 km 1.000 meter gauge [2006]

Ports and terminals: Dakar