Hann is a neighbourhood of Dakar

Dakar

Dakar is the capital city and largest city of Senegal. It is located on the Cap-Vert Peninsula on the Atlantic coast and is the westernmost city on the African mainland...

, the capital of Senegal

Senegal

Senegal , officially the Republic of Senegal , is a country in western Africa. It owes its name to the Sénégal River that borders it to the east and north...

. It is located on the eastern side of the small south facing peninsula on which the old city of Dakar built. Hann neighborhood sits along a crescent shaped beach called Hann Bay. Hann is part of the Hann Bel-Air

Hann Bel-Air

Hann Bel-Air is a commune d'arrondissement of the city of Dakar, Senegal.-Neighbourhoods:The Arrondissement comprises both the neighbourhoods of Bel-Air and Hann. Bel-Air, to the south, is the rocky plateau which juts east into the bay away from the city centre. It lays directly north of the Port...

 commune d'arrondissement

Arrondissements of Senegal

The departments of Senegal are subdivided into arrondissements. As of 2007 there were 92. The arrondissements are listed below, by department:-Bakel:*Bala Arrondissement*Diawara Arrondissement*Goudiry Arrondissement*Kidira Arrondissement-Bambey:...

: a part of the municipal Dakar Department

Dakar Department

Dakar Department is one of the departments of Senegal, located in the Dakar Region.The département of Dakar is one of the four départements of the Dakar région, which is one of the 11 régions of Senegal. The Dakar région encompasses the city of Dakar and all its suburbs along the Cape Verde Peninsula...

 which covers the city of Dakar.

Neighbourhood

Hann sits just north of the Bel-Air peninsula, a rocky outcropping which juts east from the Dakar Plateau. To the south is the Port of Dakar. To the west is the HLM

HLM

HLM , French for "housing at moderated rents" or "rent-controlled housing", is a form of subsidised housing in France. There are approximately four million such residences, housing an estimated 12 million people — nearly one-fifth of the population of France...

 and Grand Yoff

Grand Yoff

Grand Yoff is a commune d'arrondissement of the city of Dakar, Senegal. As of 2007 it had a population of 144,859....

 neighbourhoods. To the north is Patte d'Oie and to the northeast, Niayes. Gently sloping from the higher plateau of the city centre, Hann forms a long crescent sand beach, also known as Yarakh.

Among the landmarks of Hann is the large park Parc Forestier de Hann, laying just northeast of the Dakar city center, the Parc Zoologique de Hann, and Cours Sainte Marie de Hann

Cours Sainte Marie de Hann

Cours Sainte Marie de Hann is a school for ages ranging from Kindergarten to high school in Dakar, Senegal. It was founded in 1949-1950 and belongs a group of private schools in the Dakar Diocese of the Catholic Church....

 private school. The area, once a fishing village still is a launching point for the pirogue

Pirogue

A pirogue is a small, flat-bottomed boat of a design associated particularly with the Cajuns of the Louisiana marsh. In West Africa they were used as traditional fishing boats. These boats are not usually intended for overnight travel but are light and small enough to be easily taken onto land...

s of local fishermen, is today dominated by large industrial development.

Environmental damage

Hann Bay sits just north of the industrial area of the Port of Dakar. Once a small fishing village, Hann beach became a local beauty spot near the centre of Dakar. By the beginning of the 21st century, 71 factories discharging industrial effluent along the Hann shore had given the area the nickname "Trash Bay." In January 2009, the Senegalese government announced a €50m loan from France

France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

 and the European Investment Bank

European Investment Bank

The European Investment Bank is the European Union's long-term lending institution established in 1958 under the Treaty of Rome. A policy-driven bank, the EIB supports the EU’s priority objectives, especially European integration and the development of economically weak regions...

 to fund a Senegalese National Office for Decontamination (ONAS) project to clean up Hann Bay. It would be Senegal's first large scale industrial cleanup project. The plan will clean the area and create an industrial canal to divert effluent to a new waste treatment plant.

See also

• Hann Bel-Air
  Hann Bel-Air
  Hann Bel-Air is a commune d'arrondissement of the city of Dakar, Senegal.-Neighbourhoods:The Arrondissement comprises both the neighbourhoods of Bel-Air and Hann. Bel-Air, to the south, is the rocky plateau which juts east into the bay away from the city centre. It lays directly north of the Port...
  
  : the subdivision of Dakar in which Hann is located.
• Railway stations in Senegal
  Railway stations in Senegal
  - Maps :* * - Existing :* Dakar - port and national capital * Hann - truncated terminus * Bargny proposed deepwater port.* Rufisque - cement works----* Kirène - cement works to be expanded in 2008...