Mboro

Mboro
Mboro
	Town
	Mboro
	Coordinates: 15°09′N16°54′W / 15.150°N 16.900°W
Country	Senegal
Region	Thiès Region
Department	Tivaouane Department
Population (2013)
• Total	27,693
Time zone	GMT (UTC+0)

Last updated April 23, 2019

Mboro is a town in the Thiès Region of western Senegal. It is in the Tivaouane Department. The population in 2013 was 27,693.^[1]

Thiès is a region of western Senegal. The capital is also called Thiès.

Senegal, officially the Republic of Senegal, is a country in West Africa. Senegal is bordered by Mauritania in the north, Mali to the east, Guinea to the southeast, and Guinea-Bissau to the southwest. Senegal also borders The Gambia, a country occupying a narrow sliver of land along the banks of the Gambia River, which separates Senegal's southern region of Casamance from the rest of the country. Senegal also shares a maritime border with Cape Verde. Senegal's economic and political capital is Dakar.

Tivaouane Department is one of the 45 departments of Senegal, and one of the three in the Thiès Region. Its capital is Tivaouane.

The town received commune status in 2002.^[2] Mboro is situated 25 km west of Tivaouane and 117 km north of Dakar. There is a phosphate mine and factory in Mboro.^[3]

Dakar is the capital and largest city of Senegal. It is located on the Cap-Vert peninsula on the Atlantic coast and is the westernmost city on the African mainland. The city of Dakar proper has a population of 1,030,594, whereas the population of the Dakar metropolitan area is estimated at 2.45 million.

Phosphate salt or ester of phosphoric acid

A phosphate is a chemical derivative of phosphoric acid. The phosphate ion is an inorganic chemical, the conjugate base that can form many different salts. In organic chemistry, a phosphate, or organophosphate, is an ester of phosphoric acid. Of the various phosphoric acids and phosphates, organic phosphates are important in biochemistry and biogeochemistry, and inorganic phosphates are mined to obtain phosphorus for use in agriculture and industry. At elevated temperatures in the solid state, phosphates can condense to form pyrophosphates.

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References

↑ Agence Nationale de la Statistique et de la Démographie, Senegal; Population des Communes Retrieved 16 July 2015.
↑ Decree no.2002-171 of 21 February 2002
↑ Senegal's Wade: loved by dad, disliked by people

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[Sen2013com-1] Agence Nationale de la Statistique et de la Démographie, Senegal; Population des Communes Retrieved 16 July 2015.

[2] Decree no.2002-171 of 21 February 2002

[3] Senegal's Wade: loved by dad, disliked by people