Louga is a city and region of Senegal . The region is located to the northwest part of the country and Louga city is in the northwest of the region - about 50 km inland from the Atlantic coast.
3-423: Louga region is divided into 3 départements : Louga is traversed by the northwesterly line of equal latitude and longitude. This Senegal location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Department (country subdivision) A department ( French : département , Spanish : departamento ) is an administrative or political division in several countries. Departments are
6-636: The first-level divisions of 11 countries, nine in the Americas and two in Africa . An additional 10 countries use departments as second-level divisions, eight in Africa, and one each in the Americas and Europe . As a territorial entity, "department" was first used by the French Revolutionary governments, apparently to emphasize that each territory was simply an administrative sub-division of
9-661: The united sovereign nation. (The term "department", in other contexts, means an administrative sub-division of a larger organization.) This attempt to de-emphasize local political identity contrasts strongly with countries divided into "states" (implying local sovereignty). The division of France into departments was a project particularly identified with the French revolutionary leader the Abbé Sieyès , although it had already been frequently discussed and written about by many politicians and thinkers. The earliest known suggestion of it
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