Local time
Wed, 9:19 PM GMTAfrica/DakarCity
Saint-Louis
16.02° N, 16.51° W
- Population
- 220,792
- Population from Natural Earth (POP_MAX). The source does not state which year the figure belongs to, so no year is shown.
- Population rank
- 2 of 14
- Rank by Natural Earth population among the 14 cities of Mauritania in Terratlasia that have a population figure. Terratlasia does not list every city of Mauritania, so this is not a national ranking.
- Founded
- 1659
- Year of founding from Wikidata (P571). Only the year is known, not the day; a city whose sources give more than one year shows no row.
- Elevation
- 22 m
- Elevation above sea level from Wikidata (P2044), rounded to the metre. A city whose sources give two different elevations shows no row.
- Administrative unit
- Saint-Louis Department
- The administrative unit Wikidata files this city under (P131), one level below the state. The state itself is shown on its own row and is not repeated here; a city filed under more than three units shows no row at all.
- Time zone
- Africa/Dakar
Traveler brief
Only what this atlas can source — no hours, prices, visas or safety advice.
Practical bearings for Saint-Louis, from the same records as the rest of this page.
No places in Saint-Louis have been recorded yet. The map and the country page still carry its context.
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