Diourbel

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Diourbel

Diourbel (dyo͝orbĕlˈ), town (1988 pop. 76,548), W Senegal, on the railroad from Dakar to the Niger River in Mali. The market for a peanut-growing region, it produces peanut oil as well as beverages and perfume.

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Diourbel

a city in western Senegal. Population, 28,500 (1965). Diourbel produces vegetable oil, and it is a center of an agricultural region growing mainly peanuts and also millet, sorghum, and manioc. Cattle are also raised in the area.

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