Senegal, formally the Republic of Senegal, is a nation in West Africa. Senegal is flanked by Mauritania in the north, Mali toward the east, Guinea toward the southeast, and Guinea-Bissau toward the southwest. Senegal likewise fringes The Gambia, a nation possessing a thin bit of land along the banks of the Gambia River, which isolates Senegal's southern area of Casamance from the remainder of the nation. Senegal likewise shares a sea fringe with Cape Verde. Senegal's monetary and political capital is Dakar. The unitary semi-presidential republic is the westernmost nation in the territory of the Old World, or Afro-Eurasia, and owes its name to the Senegal River, which outskirts it toward the east and north. Senegal covers a land territory of right around 197,000 square kilometers (76,000 sq mi). The region of present day Senegal has been possessed by different ethnic gatherings since ancient times. Sorted out kingdoms developed around the seventh century, and parts of the nation were administered by noticeable provincial realms, for example, the Jolof Empire. The current situation with Senegal has its underlying foundations in European expansionism, which started amid the mid-fifteenth century, when different European forces started going after exchange the zone. The foundation of beach front exchanging presents steadily drove on control of the terrain, coming full circle in French guideline of the zone by the nineteenth century, but in the midst of much neighborhood opposition. Senegal gently accomplished freedom from France in 1960, and has since been among the more politically stable nations in Africa.

Dakar is the capital and biggest city of Senegal. It is situated on the Cap-Vert promontory on the Atlantic coast and is the westernmost city on the African terrain. The territory around Dakar was settled in the fifteenth century. The Portuguese built up a nearness on the island of Gorée off the shore of Cap-Vert and utilized it as a base for the Atlantic slave exchange. France assumed control over the island in 1677. Following the abrogation of the slave exchange and French addition of the terrain territory in the nineteenth century, Dakar developed into a noteworthy territorial port and a noteworthy city of the French frontier realm. In 1902, Dakar supplanted Saint-Louis as the capital of French West Africa. From 1959 to 1960, Dakar was the capital of the brief Mali Federation. In 1960, it turned into the capital of the autonomous Republic of Senegal. Dakar is home to various national and territorial banks just as various worldwide associations.

Adansonia digitata, the baobab, is the most broad tree types of the class Adansonia, the baobabs, and is local to the African mainland. The enduring pachycauls are commonly found in dry, hot savannahs of sub-Saharan Africa, where they overwhelm the scene, and uncover the nearness of a conduit from a remote place. Their development rate is controlled by ground water or precipitation, and their most extreme age, which is liable to much guess, is by all accounts in the request of 1,500 years. They have generally been esteemed as wellsprings of nourishment, water, wellbeing cures or places of haven and are saturated with legend and superstition. Basic names for the baobab incorporate dead-rodent tree (from the presence of the organic product), monkey-bread tree (the delicate, dry natural product is eatable), topsy turvy tree (the meager branches look like roots) and cream of tartar tree (cream of tartar). The trees normally develop as lone people, and are extensive and particular components of savannah or scrubland vegetation. Some substantial people live to well over a thousand years old. All baobab trees are deciduous, losing their leaves in the dry season, and stay leafless for nine months of the year. They can develop to between 5– 25 m (16– 82 ft) in stature. They are in actuality known both for their stature and trunk's size. The storage compartment will in general be bottle-molded and can achieve a distance across of 10– 14 m (33– 46 ft). The range of the roots really surpass the tree's tallness, a factor that empowers it to make due in a dry atmosphere. Many believe the tree to be "topsy turvy" because of the storage compartment similarity to a taproot and the branches much the same as better slim roots. The storage compartment is smooth and sparkly and can go from being rosy dark colored to dim. The bark can feel plug like.[7] The branches are thick and wide and extremely forceful contrasted with the storage compartment. Amid the late-spring the tree bears extremely vast, overwhelming, white blossoms. These are 12 cm (4.7 in) crosswise over and open amid the late evening to remain open for one night. The pendulous, gaudy blooms have an exceptionally vast number of stamens. They have a sweet fragrance however later radiate a remains smell, particularly when they turn dark colored and fall following 24 hours. The blooms have 5 petals that are rugged and bristly within. The sepals are container formed and 5-separated. The stamens are partitioned into various anthers and styles are 7-10 rayed.