Key facts
- Country
- Senegal
- Capital
- Matam
- D partements
- List Kanel Matam Ranérou Ferlo
- Total
- 29,445 km (11,369 sq mi)
- Density
- 28.312/km (73.329/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+0 ( GMT )
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- region of Senegal
- Country
- Senegal
- Located in
- Senegal
- Contains
- Ranérou Ferlo Department
- Capital
- Matam
- Population
- 833657
- Area
- 29616
- Shares border with
- Kaffrine
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- topic's main category
- Category:Matam region
- Commons category
- Matam Region
- language used
- Soninke
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Encyclopedic overview
Matam is a region of Senegal (regional capitals have the same name as their respective regions).
It is a flat, arid region bounded on the north by the Sénégal River and the south by the Sahelian plain studded with baobab trees. Matam is populated by the Pulaar-speaking Toucouleur people. According to a 2015 economic report, half of Senegal's agricultural value is derived from the Matam region.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Matam” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.