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Roman Rite (7): Dakar, Kaolack, Kolda, Saint-Louis du Sénégal, Tambacounda, Thiès, Ziguinchor

Maronite Church (1): Annunciation of Ibadan

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Saints: 1 Blessed

Continent: Western and Northern Africa

Capital: Dakar

Area: 192,530 km²

Population: 13,635,927

Neighbouring Countries: ↖ Cabo Verde , ↑ Mauritania , → Mali , ↘ Guinea , ↓ Gambia , ↓ Guinea-Bissau

Religions: Muslim 96.1% (most adhere to one of the four main Sufi brotherhoods), Christian 3.6% (mostly Roman Catholic), animist 0.3%

Languages: French (official), Wolof, Pular, Jola, Mandinka, Serer, Soninke

Ethnic Groups: Wolof 41.6%, Pular 28.1%, Serer 15.3%, Mandinka 5.4%, Jola 3.4%, Soninke 0.8%, other 5.4% (includes Europeans and persons of Lebanese descent)

Motto: Un peuple, un but, une foi (French) (One people, one goal, one faith)

Area: 196,722 km²

Catholic Population: 891,000 Catholics (5.1% of 17,477,000 total)

Pastoral Centres: 166 parishes, 340 mission stations (1 with resident priest, 339 without resident priest), 91 other centres

Clergy: 10 bishops (6 diocesan, 4 titular), 571 priests (392 diocesan, 179 religious)

Non-Clergy: 895 religious (131 brothers, 764 sisters), 2 members of secular institutes (sisters), 249 major seminarians, 11 missionaries, 2,859 catechists