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Country | Senegal |
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Population | 0 |
Dakar (English: ; French: [dakaʁ]; Wolof: Ndakaaru) is the capital and largest city of Senegal. The city of Dakar proper has a population of 1,030,594, whereas the population of the Dakar metropolitan region is estimated at 2.45 million.The region around Dakar was settled in the 15th century. The Portuguese established a presence on the island of Gorée off the coast of Cap-Vert and used it as a foundation for the Atlantic slave trade. France took over the island in 1677.
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State | Łódź Voivodeship |
Country | Poland |
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Population | 711332 |
The Vietnamese alphabet (Vietnamese chu Quoc Ngu, script for the national language) uses the modern Latin writing script. It uses the Latin script that was originally created by Francisco de Pina, a Portuguese missionary. The Vietnamese alphabet has 29 letters. Five additional diacritics are used to indicate tone (as in a), a), a), a and a.