Thiès has two coastlines, one in the north with the Grande Côte housing the Niayes vegetable market, one to the south with the Petite Côte, one of the tourist areas of Senegal.

Principally the main passageway between the peninsula and the rest of the country, the region of Thiès has received a communication route connected to the first rail line and new road infrastructure.

However, in the pre-colonial period, more so around the 16th century, the Wolof immigrants among others have settled in.

Geographically, the region partially overlaps with the precolonial Kingdoms of Cayor and Baol.

[7] The Kingdom of Baol was ruled by the Joof family for several centuries until c 1549.