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Touba

Senegal

Watercolour of Touba, Senegal. Centered around The Great Mosque of Touba with its central 87-meter Lamp Fall minaret, mausoleum domes, and expansive marble courtyards. Featuring Great Mosque of Touba and Cheikh Ahmadou Bamba.
AI-generated artistic rendering. Painted from written research on the city's setting, architecture and materials — not from a photograph.
What guided this image
Landmarks
Great Mosque of Touba; Cheikh Ahmadou Bamba; Sahel; Cheikh Ahmadou Bamba; Grand Magal; Sahelian savannah flora; Mouride Sufi Islamic
Viewpoint
Favor the classic viewpoint looking across the landscape toward the signature landmarks of Touba, showing regional foliage and foreground textures, the iconic architectural monuments in the middle-ground, and the distant horizon fading in the background.
Palette
Green should be the predominant color, especially in shady neem trees lining pilgrim avenues, giant baobabs in the distance, and hardy acacia scrub.
Population1,120,824Wikidata: 529,176
Coordinates14.86°N, 15.88°W
Elevation35 m
Time zoneAfrica/DakarUTC+0
Solar noon13:04clock runs 1.1 h ahead of the sun

Through the Earth

Dig straight through the Earth from Touba and you surface nearest to Port-Olry, Vanuatu — 318 km from the exact antipodal point.

Nearest cities in the atlas

DakarSN169 km
BanjulGM174 km
BissauGW335 km
NouakchottMR359 km
CamayenneGN638 km
ConakryGN638 km
FreetownSL764 km
PraiaCV820 km

Twinned cities

Wikidata records no twinned cities for Touba inside this atlas.

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