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title: "DKR — Léopold Sédar Senghor Airport, Dakar · Orbit"
description: "Léopold Sédar Senghor International Airport (DKR/GOOY) serves Dakar, Senegal. Named after Léopold Sédar Senghor, 2 million passengers in 2017, 7 km from Dakar."
url: https://orbitflights.app/airports/dkr
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Dakar · Senegal · Africa

# DKR — Léopold Sédar Senghor

Léopold Sédar Senghor International Airport serves Dakar, Senegal, 7 km from the city centre, and sits at 14.7°N, 17.5°W. This site carries 1 route touching it, with the great circle distance for each.

**IATA**
DKR
the code on your bag tag

**ICAO**
GOOY
used by air traffic control

**Passengers**
2M
in 2017

**Routes here**
1
in the catalogue

## History & name

Léopold Sédar Senghor International Airport is named after Léopold Sédar Senghor (1906–2001), president of Senegal, poet and cultural theorist, and also after Dakar. It lies 7 km from Dakar, has one runway of 3,490 m, and handled 2 million passengers in 2017.

Named after **Léopold Sédar Senghor** — first president of Senegal, poet, and cultural theorist (1906–2001)

Read more: [Wikipedia ↗](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dakar-Yoff-L%C3%A9opold%5FS%C3%A9dar%5FSenghor%5FInternational%5FAirport) · [Wikidata ↗](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q513689)

## At a glance

**Full name**
Léopold Sédar Senghor International Airport

**Serves**
Dakar, Senegal

**City centre**
7 km from Dakar

**Passengers**
2 million in 2017

**Runways**
1 runway, 3,490 m

**Elevation**
85 ft (26 m)

**Map**
[Open in Google Maps ↗](https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=14.74230,-17.47920)

**Website**
[aeroportdakar.com ↗](http://www.aeroportdakar.com/)

## Where it sits

14.7°N, 17.5°W puts DKR in the northern hemisphere, 1,639 km from the equator and 8,368 km from the North pole.

Of the 661 airports on this site it is the **435th** most northerly, which makes it the 227th most southerly.

## Straight through the middle

Straight down through the centre of the Earth comes out at 14.7°S, 162.5°E. The nearest airport on this site to that point is Honiara (HIR) in Solomon Islands, still 649 km away — most of the planet's antipodes are ocean.

## What’s near it

The closest other airport on this site is **Modibo Keita** (BKO), 1,058 km away in a straight line. Nothing else on this site is within 100 km.

## Distances from DKR

Great circle distance and an estimated time in the air.

| To                                                  |     | Distance | Estimated |
| --------------------------------------------------- | --- | -------- | --------- |
| [Paris](https://orbitflights.app/routes/cdg-to-dkr) | CDG | 4,225 km | 5h 45m    |

[Distance from DKR to any airport →](https://orbitflights.app/distance?from=DKR&to=CDG) [Map a trip from DKR →](https://orbitflights.app/tools/flight-route-map?r=DKR-CDG)

## Where these facts come from

The profile is looked up, not written from memory: type, runways, elevation and the official website from [OurAirports](https://ourairports.com/data/) (public domain); opening year, namesake, operator and passenger count from [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/) (CC0); the city centre from [GeoNames](https://www.geonames.org/) (CC BY 4.0). Where a source has nothing, the line is left out. Distances, neighbours and the antipode are computed from the coordinates.

What you won’t find: terminal maps, airline lists, shops or live departures. Orbit is a logbook, not a flight tracker, and a page that guessed at those would be worse than one that leaves them out.

[Measure DKR to anywhere →](https://orbitflights.app/distance)

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