Villages of Senegal

Remains of an ancient house in the village of Agnam-Goly

The Villages of Senegal are the lowest level administrative division of Senegal. They are constituted "by the grouping of several families or carrés[1] in a single agglomeration.".[2]

Villages are grouped together in rural communities. They are administered by an individual entitled village chief (French: chef du village).

At the time of the 1988 census there were 13,544 villages in Senegal.[3] In 2013, there were 14,958[4]

  1. ^ For the definitions of "carré", "concession," "ménage" and "chef de famille," see C. Bouquillion-Vaugelade & B. Vignac-Buttin, « Les unités collectives et l'urbanisation au Sénégal. Étude de la famille Wolof », CNRS, 1972, p. 358 ff.
  2. ^ Article 1 of the law N° 2008-14 of 18 March 2008
  3. ^ Source DAT 2000, cited in Djibril Diop, Décentralisation et gouvernance locale au Sénégal, L'Harmattan, Paris, 2006, p. 121
  4. ^ Répertoire des villages officiels du Sénégal, accessed on 30 March 2013 [1]