Saint-Louis in Senegal

20 July 2024 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General, UNESCO World Heritage Reading Time:  8 minutes

© LamourYves/cc-by-sa-4.0

© LamourYves/cc-by-sa-4.0

Saint Louis or Saint-Louis (Wolof: Ndar), is the capital of Senegal‘s Saint-Louis Region. Located in the northwest of Senegal, near the mouth of the Senegal River, and 320 kilometres (200 mi) north of Senegal’s capital city Dakar. It had a population of 254,171 in 2023. Saint-Louis was the capital of the French colony of Senegal from 1673 until 1902 and French West Africa from 1895 until 1902, when the capital was moved to Dakar. From 1920 to 1957, it also served as the capital of the neighboring colony of Mauritania.   read more…

Theme Week Alsace – Saint-Louis

24 November 2015 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General Reading Time:  4 minutes

Hôtel de l'Europe © Rauenstein/cc-by-sa-2.5

Hôtel de l’Europe © Rauenstein/cc-by-sa-2.5

Saint-Louis is a commune in the Haut-Rhin department in north-eastern France. The inhabitants are called Ludoviciens.  read more…

The Rhine

7 October 2011 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General, UNESCO World Heritage Reading Time:  9 minutes

Distance marks along the Rhine indicate distances from this bridge in the City of Constance © Achim Lehle

Distance marks along the Rhine indicate distances from this bridge in the City of Constance © Achim Lehle

The Rhine flows from Grisons in the eastern Swiss Alps to the North Sea coast in the Netherlands and is one of the longest and most important rivers in Europe, at about 1,233 km (766 mi), with an average discharge of more than 2,000 m3/s (71,000 cu ft/s).   read more…

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