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Malem Hodar department

department in Kaffrine Region, Senegal

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 2, 2025
Entity authorityQ2075437 ↗
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Malem Hodar department is one of the 46 departments of Senegal, and is located in the Kaffrine region. It was created as part of the new region in 2008.

The main settlement is the commune of Malem Hodar. Id addition there are the rural communities (Communautés rurales) of Darou Minam, Djanke Souf, Khelcom, Ndiobene Samba Lamo, Ndioume Ngainthe and Sagna.

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“Malem Hodar department” enters the record as department in Kaffrine Region, Senegal. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Malem, Hodar and department can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 2, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q2075437. Authority coordinates are 14.088, -15.295. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2008.

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This entry incorporates text from “Malem Hodar department” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.