Malicounda
Communauté rurale de Malicounda | |
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Rural commune | |
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| Coordinates: 14°27′41.4″N 16°58′10.4″W / 14.461500°N 16.969556°W | |
| Country |  Senegal |
| Region | Thiès |
| Department | M'bour |
| Arrondissement | Sindia |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Thièwoulé Cissokho |
| Area | |
• Total | 124 km2 (48 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 12 m (39 ft) |
| Population (2013) | |
• Total | 61,031 |
| • Density | 492.2/km2 (1,275/sq mi) |
| • Ethnic groups | |
| ISO 3166 code | SN-TH |
Malicounda is a rural commune (communauté rurale) in the Sindia Arrondissement within the M'bour Department of the Thiès Region in western Senegal. At the 2013 census Malicounda had a population of 61,031 making it the second most populous rural commune after the pilgrimage site Touba Mosquée. Malicounda is also the name of three interconnected villages one of them being Malicounda Bambara, the epicentre of the FGC Abandonment Movement.