| LC control no. | n 99908690 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Geographic heading | Mekhe (Senegal) |
| Geographic subdivision usage | Senegal--Mekhe |
| Variant(s) | Mecké (Senegal) Meckhé (Senegal) Méké (Senegal) Mékké (Senegal) Ngaaÿ (Senegal) Ngaaÿ-Mékhé (Senegal) Ngaye (Senegal) Ngaye Mékhé (Senegal) |
| Found in | Enquête alimentaire, nutritionnelle ... 1997: t.p. (Mekhe) GeoNames, algorithmically matched, 2009 (ppl; 15°07ʹ00ʺN 016°38ʹ00ʺW) GeoNames, May 22, 2018 (Mékhé; ppl, ADM1 Thiès; 15°06'35" N, 016°37'18" W; variants Mecké, Meckhé, Méké, Mekké; also an entry for Mekhé Village, variants Méké Village, Mekhé Mbar, 15°07'03" N, 016°40'48" W) De l'antilope à la locomotive, 2018 : title page (Ngaye Mékhé, a city of Kajoor [Cayor], Senegal) pages 26-28 (Ngaye, Mékhé, and Ngaye Mékhé are three names which designate the same space, geographically and organically linked; “Ngaye” means antelope in Manding language; Mékhé takes its name from the neighboring village of Mékhé; with the exception of a few rare mentions of "Ngaye Mékhé" in colonial administrative documents, "Mékhé" is the name frequently used during that era to designate the 'stopover' city of Ngaye: "Gare de Mékhé", "Escale de Mékhé", etc.; the village of Mékhé being nearer the placement of the railway station, the name Mékhé was naturally applied to this area; the name of Mékhé ended up supplanting, administratively, that of Ngaye; the village of Mékhé existed much earlier than Ngaye; the official name is Mékhé (also spelled Méckhé) rather than Ngaye, the name favored by people of the area; there has been much confusion between Mékhé and Ngaye; young elites generally say "Mékhé" in place of "Ngaye"; worse, they pronounce it "Méké" for unknown reasons; the name "Ngaye- Mékhé" would render concrete the historical connection) Wikipedia, French version, May 22, 2018 (Meckhe, or Mekkhe, called Ngaaÿ; city in northwestern Senegal, between Thies and Saint-Louis; Meckhe, Méckhé, Mekhe, Ngaaÿ-Mékhé, in external links) |
| Geographic area code | f-sg--- |
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