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Commune d'arrondissement in Dakar Region, Senegal

Biscuiterie

Biscuiterie is a commune d'arrondissement of the city of Dakar, Senegal, part of the arrondissement of Grand Dakar.

Biscuiterie
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The place

Biscuiterie is a commune d'arrondissement of the city of Dakar, Senegal, part of the arrondissement of Grand Dakar. It is located in the centre-southern area of the city. As of 2007, it had a population of 56,932.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Biscuiterie

10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Université Cheikh Anta Diop

    Cheikh Anta Diop University, is a university in Dakar, Senegal. It is named after the Senegalese physicist, historian and anthropologist Cheikh Anta Diop and has an enrollment of over 60,000.

    3 km · public university in Dakar, Senegal · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Dakar Grand Mosque

    The Grand Mosque of Dakar is a mosque in Dakar, Senegal, situated on Allée Pape Gueye Fall, in the Dakar médina.

    3.6 km · mosque in Dakar, Senegal · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Museum of Black Civilizations

    The Museum of Black Civilisations is a national museum in Dakar, Senegal, that opened on 6 December 2018. It is directed by Hamady Bocoum, an archaeologist and researcher at Cheikh-Anta-Diop University.

    3.9 km · museum in Dakar, Senegal · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Stade Demba Diop

    Stade Demba Diop is a multi-use stadium in greater Dakar, Senegal. It is situated on Boulevard Président Habib Bourguiba in Sicap-Liberté, an urban arrondissement of Dakar.

    900 m · stadium in Sénégal · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Institut Fondamental d'Afrique Noire

    IFAN is a cultural and scientific institute in the nations of the former French West Africa. Founded in Dakar, Senegal, in 1938 as the Institut français d’Afrique noire, the name was changed only in 1966.

    3.5 km · research institute · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Massalikoul Djinane Mosque

    The Massalikoul Djinane Mosque is a mosque in Dakar, Senegal.

    1 km · mosque in Dakar, Senegal · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Henriette-Bathily Women's Museum

    The Henriette-Bathily Women's Museum is a museum which was located on Gorée, an island on the coast of Senegal, across from the House of Slaves museum. In May 2015, it moved to Dakar, at the Place du Souvenir Africain et de la Diaspora.

    3.4 km · museum in Senegal · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa

    The Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa is a Pan-African research organisation headquartered in Dakar, Senegal. Lyn Ossome currently serves as the President of CODESRIA with Zubairu Wai recently appointed as the 8th Executive Secretary of the Council.

    2.4 km · research institute · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Hann Forest and Zoological Park

    The Hann Forest and Zoological Park is a nature reserve located in Dakar, the capital of the African country of Senegal, in the Hann Bel-Air commune.

    2.4 km · zoo in Sénégal · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Stade de ASC HLM

    Association Sportive et Culturelle HLM is a Senegalese football club based in Dakar. They play in the top division in Senegalese football.

    900 m · building in Senegal · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

Getting to Biscuiterie

Airports
Blaise Diagne (DSS), 41 km · Banjul (BJL), 175 km
  • Dakar → Biscuiterie
    2 km · quickest by road, 7 min · $0
  • Banjul (Yundum) → Biscuiterie
    175 km · quickest by road, 6h 37m · $27–37
  • Bissau → Biscuiterie
    375 km · quickest by air, 6h 36m · $260–380
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Biscuiterie

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Biscuiterie. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inA state-owned ferry runs between Dakar and Ziguinchor in Senegal's Casamance region (below The Gambia).
  • Get inThe Joola, one of the former ferries on this route, capsized in a storm while overloaded in 2002, regarded as the second deadliest maritime disaster in recent history.
  • Get inThe Aline Sitoé Diatta, built in 2008, is the current ferry.
  • Get inThe ferry runs overnight and takes around 16 hours in each direction.
  • Go nextSine Saloum Delta — Just north of the border with Gambia, the Delta has amazing mangrove forests that you can tour by pirogue (a motored canoe).

From Wikivoyage: Dakar, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Santo AntãoCV

    9 ways of moving, 32 sources

    866 km
  2. 02
    Merzouga and Erg ChebbiMA

    8 ways of moving, 41 sources

    2,279 km
  3. 03
    ChefchaouenMA

    8 ways of moving, 30 sources

    2,580 km
  4. 04
    PríncipeST

    7 ways of moving, 13 sources

    3,094 km
  5. 05
    Morro de São Paulo and Ilha de TinharéBR

    9 ways of moving, 31 sources

    3,916 km

If you know how people move in Biscuiterie – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Biscuiterie

Biscuiterie is 2 km from Dakar, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.