Niger River
The Niger River is the main river of West Africa, extending about 4,180 km. Its drainage basin is 2,117,700 km2 in area. Its source is in the Guinea Highlands in south-eastern Guinea near the Sierra Leone border.Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Jay Jay Agbor, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Jay Jay Agbor, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Niger River
- Type: Stream
- Description: river in West Africa
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: Nigeria, West Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
5.30156° or 5° 18' 6" northLongitude
6.4168° or 6° 25' 1" eastElevation
8 metres (26 feet)Open Location Code
6FQ88C28+JPGeoNames ID
2328928Wikidata ID
Q3542Niger River Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Abkhazian: Asif n Nnijer
- Afrikaans: Nigerrivier
- Albanian: Lumi Niger
- Amharic: ኒጄር ወንዝ
- Arabic: Salog Niger
- Arabic: نهر النيجر
- Arabic: نيجر (نهر)
- Aragonese: Río Nícher
- Armenian: Նիգեր
- Armenian: Նիգեր գետ
- Assamese: নাইজাৰ নদী
- Asturian: Ríu Níxer
- Azerbaijani: Niger
- Azerbaijani: Niger çayı
- Bambara: Jeliba
- Bashkir: Нигер
- Basque: Niger
- Bavarian: Niger
- Belarusian: Нігер (рака)
- Belarusian: Нігер
- Bengali: নাইজার নদী
- Bhojpuri: नाइजर नदी
- Bosnian: Niger
- Breton: Niger
- Bulgarian: Нигер
- Burmese: နိုင်ဂျာမြစ်
- Catalan: Riu Níger
- Catalan: riu Níger
- Cebuano: Niger
- Central Kurdish: ڕووباری نیجێر
- Chechen: Нигер
- Chinese: Niger Hô
- Chinese: 尼日尔河
- Chinese: 尼日河
- Chuvash: Нигер
- Cornish: Dowr Niger
- Croatian: Niger
- Czech: Niger
- Danish: Niger
- Dutch: Niger
- Eastern Mari: Нигер
- Egyptian Arabic: نهر النيجر
- English: Niger
- English: Quorra
- English: fleuve Niger
- Esperanto: Niĝero
- Estonian: Nigeri jõgi
- Faroese: Nigerá
- Fiji Hindi: Niger Naddi
- Finnish: Niger
- French: Niger
- Fulah: Maayo Jaaliba
- Galician: Río Níxer
- Georgian: ნიგერი
- German: Niger
- Greek: Νίγηρας
- Greek: Νίγηρας ποταμός
- Guarani: Ysyry Níher
- Hausa: Neja
- Hausa: Nijar
- Hebrew: ניז'ר
- Hindi: नाइजर नदी
- Hungarian: Niger
- Icelandic: Nígerfljót
- Ido: Fluvio Nijer
- Igbo: Oshimiri Orimiri
- Iloko: Karayan Niger
- Indonesian: Sungai Niger
- Interlingua: Fluvio Niger
- Irish: An Nígir
- Italian: Niger
- Japanese: ニジェール川
- Javanese: Kali Niger
- Kabiyè: Nizɛɛrɩ Pɔɔ
- Kabyle: asif n Nnijer
- Kazakh: Нигер
- Kirghiz: Нигер
- Korean: 나이저강
- Korean: 니제르 강
- Lao: Karayan Niger
- Latin: Niger
- Latvian: Nigēra
- Limburgan: Niger
- Lingala: Nizer
- Lingua Franca Nova: Rio Nijer
- Lithuanian: Nigeris
- Lombard: Niger
- Low German: Niger
- Low German: Nigerstroom
- Lower Sorbian: Niger
- Luxembourgish: Niger
- Macedonian: Нигер
- Malagasy: Niger
- Malagasy: Renirano Nijera
- Malay: Sungai Niger
- Malayalam: നൈജർ നദി
- Marathi: नायजर नदी
- Min Nan Chinese: Niger Hô
- Mingrelian: ნიგერი
- Mongolian: Нигер мөрөн
- Moroccan Arabic: لواد د النيجر
- N'Ko: ߖߋ߬ߟߌߓߊ߬
- N'Ko: ߖߋ߬ߟߌߓߊ߬ ߓߊ
- N'Ko: ߖߏ߬ߟߌߓߊ߬
- N'Ko: ߣߌߖ߭ߋߙߌ߫
- Nepali: नाइजर खुसि
- Newari: नाइजर खुसि
- Nigerian Pidgin: Riva Naija
- Northern Frisian: Niiger Struum
- Norwegian: Niger
- Norwegian Bokmål: Niger (elv)
- Norwegian Bokmål: Niger
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Nigerelva
- Nyanja: Mtsinje wa Niger
- Occitan (post 1500): Nigèr
- Panjabi: ਨਾਈਜਰ ਦਰਿਆ
- Persian: رودخانه نیجر
- Piemontese: Nìger (fium)
- Piemontese: Nìger
- Polish: Niger
- Portuguese: Rio Níger
- Quechua: Niqir mayu
- Romanian: Niger
- Russia Buriat: Нигер мүрэн
- Russian: Нигер
- Rusyn: Ніґер
- Samogitian: Nigeris (opė)
- Scots: Niger River
- Serbian: Нигер
- Serbo-Croatian: Niger
- Sicilian: Niger
- Silesian: Ńiger (rzyka)
- Silesian: Ńiger
- Slovak: Niger
- Slovenian: Niger
- Somali: Wabiga Nijer
- South Azerbaijani: نیجر چایی
- Spanish: Niger
- Spanish: Níger
- Spanish: Río Níger
- Swahili: Niger
- Swedish: Niger
- Swiss German: Niger (Fluss)
- Swiss German: Niger
- Tagalog: Ilog Niger
- Tajik: Дарёи Нигер
- Tamil: நைஜர் ஆறு
- Tatar: Нигер (елга)
- Tatar: Нигер
- Thai: แม่น้ำไนเจอร์
- Tosk Albanian: Niger
- Turkish: Nijer Nehri
- Turkmen: Niger derýasy
- Tyap: A̱ghyui Kwara
- Tyap: A̱ghyui Naija
- Tyap: A̱ghyui Neja
- Tyap: A̱ghyui Nija
- Ukrainian: Нігер
- Upper Sorbian: Niger
- Urdu: دریائے نائجر
- Uzbek: Niger
- Venetian: Fiume Niger
- Venetian: Fiume Nìzer
- Veps: Niger
- Vietnamese: Sông Niger
- Waray (Philippines): Salog Niger
- Welsh: Afon Niger
- Western Frisian: Niger
- Western Mari: Нигер
- Western Panjabi: دریائے نائجر
- Wu Chinese: 尼日爾河
- Yakut: Нигер (өрүс)
- Yakut: Нигер
- Yiddish: ניזשער טייך
- Yoruba: Odò Niger
- Yoruba: Odò Ọya
- Yue Chinese: 尼日河
- Dioliba
- Dioliba Fleuve
- Djoliba
- Joliba
- Kworra
- Niger, jume
- River Niger
- Timbiko
- Нигер дарыясы
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In the Area
- Kenan-IrriVillage
- Oye Camp I&IILocality
- EkoweVillage
- SamabriVillage
- OgbokiriVillage
- Ogbesu Camp ILocality, 2½ km south
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipdia page Niger River. Photo: upyernoz, CC BY 2.0.