Countries

Senegal

A West African country on the Atlantic, wrapped almost entirely around The Gambia. Its capital, Dakar, sits on the Cap-Vert peninsula, the westernmost point of mainland Africa. Just offshore, Gorée Island is a memorial to the Atlantic slave trade.

Low colonial buildings along the rocky shore of Goree Island, with the Atlantic in the foreground

Goree Island, off Dakar

Photo: Fawaz.tairou, CC BY-SA 4.0

A vertical tricolour in the Pan-African colours green, gold and red, with a green five-pointed star in the centre of the gold band. Adopted in 1960, the year of independence.

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