Niger
Niger is a large, arid, landlocked country situated in the Sahel. Formerly a French colony, Niger is one of the poorest countries in the world and is largely agrarian.Tap on the map to travel |
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Niamey
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Niamey, the capital of Niger, is a calm, fairly modern city of around 1.3 million on the banks of the Niger River surrounded by the Tillaberi region in the far southwest of Niger.
Agadez
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Agadez is a historic city of 110,000 inhabitants in the Aïr region of Northern Niger.
Maradi
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Maradi is the capital of a region by the same name in the Republic of Niger that occupies a small part of the southern border with Nigeria, directly north of the cities of Kano and Katsina.
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Southwestern Niger
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Southwestern Niger is the western and southernmost region of Niger, spanning the Tillabére and Dosso provinces as well as the nation's capital on the Niger River.
Niger
- Type: Country with 17,100,000 residents
- Description: sovereign state in western Africa
- Languages: French, Hausa, Kanuri and Zarma
- Neighbors: Algeria, Benin, Burkina Faso, Chad, Libya, Mali and Nigeria
- Categories: republic, sovereign state, landlocked country and locality
- Location: Sahel, Africa
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Latitude of centre
17.06° or 17° 3' 36" northLongitude of centre
9.27° or 9° 16' 12" eastPopulation
17,100,000Area
1,267,000 km² (489,191 miles²)Elevation
1,030 metres (3,379 feet)Capital
NiameyCurrency
Franc (XOF)Phone code
.neInternet domain
227OpenStreetMap ID
node 424311675OpenStreetMap Feature
place=countryGeoNames ID
2440476Wikidata ID
Q1032Niger Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Abkhazian: Nnijer
- Abkhazian: Нигер
- Achinese: Niger
- Adyghe: Нигер
- Afar: Niger
- Afrikaans: Niger
- Afrikaans: Nigerië
- Akan: Niger
- Akan: Nigyɛ
- Albanian: Niger
- Albanian: Nigeri
- Amharic: Niger
- Amharic: ኒጀር
- Amharic: ኒጄር
- Amis: Niger
- Angika: नाइगर
- Arabic: Niger
- Arabic: النيجر
- Arabic: جمهورية النيجر
- Arabic: زندر
- Arabic: عاصمة النيجر
- Arabic: قائمة جزر النيجر
- Arabic: منطقة حضارية نيامي
- Arabic: نيجر
- Aragonese: Nícher
- Armenian: Նիգեր
- Arpitan: Nig·èr
- Assamese: নাইজাৰ
- Asturian: Níxer
- Atayal: Niger
- Avaric: Nigera
- Azerbaijani: Niger
- Balinese: Niger
- Bambara: Nijer
- Bambara: Nizɛri
- Banjar: Niger
- Bashkir: Нигер
- Basque: Niger
- Bavarian: Niger
- Belarusian: Нігер
- Belarusian: Ніґер
- Bengali: নাইজার
- Bhojpuri: नाइजर
- Bhojpuri: नाइज़र
- Bhojpuri: नाईजर
- Bishnupriya: নাইজের
- Bislama: Naeja
- Bosnian: Niger
- Breton: Niger
- Bulgarian: Нигер
- Burmese: နိုင်ဂျာ
- Burmese: နိုင်ဂျာနိုင်ငံ
- Catalan: Níger
- Catalan: República del Níger
- Cebuano: Niger
- Cebuano: Niher
- Central Bikol: Niger
- Central Kurdish: نیجەر
- Chavacano: Níger
- Chechen: Нигер
- Cherokee: ᎾᎢᏨ
- Cherokee: ᏍᎦᏚᎩ ᎾᎿ ᎾᎢᏨ
- Chinese: Niger
- Chinese: Nírìěr
- Chinese: 尼日
- Chinese: 尼日尔 / 尼日
- Chinese: 尼日尔
- Chinese: 尼日爾
- Cornish: Pow Nijer
- Corsican: Nìger
- Crimean Tatar: Niger
- Croatian: Niger
- Czech: Niger
- Dagbani: Niger
- Danish: Niger
- Dhivehi: ނީޖަރު
- Dimli (individual language): Nicer
- Dinka: Nijer
- Dotyali: नाइजर
- Dutch: NE
- Dutch: NER
- Dutch: Niger
- Dzongkha: ནཱའི་ཇཱ
- Eastern Mari: Нигер
- Egyptian Arabic: نيجر
- English: Republic Niger
- English: Republic of Niger
- English: Republic of the Niger
- English: The Niger
- English: ne
- Esperanto: Niĝerlando
- Esperanto: Niĝero
- Esperanto: Respubliko Niĝerlando
- Estonian: Niger
- Estonian: Nigeri Vabariik
- Ewe: Nidzɛ
- Ewe: Niger
- Ewe: Niger nutome
- Extremaduran: Nigi
- Farefare: Niger
- Faroese: Niger
- Fiji Hindi: Niger
- Finnish: Niger
- Finnish: Nigerin tasavalta
- Fon: Nijɛto
- Fon: Nijɛtò
- French: NE
- French: NIG
- French: Niger
- French: République du Niger
- French: la République du Niger
- French: ne
- Fulah: Niiser
- Fulah: Nijeer
- Gagauz: Niger
- Galician: Níxer
- Ganda: Niger
- Ganda: Nije
- Georgian: ნიგერი
- German: Niger
- German: Republik Niger
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: Niger
- Greek: Νίγηρ
- Greek: Νίγηρας
- Guarani: Níher
- Guianese Creole French: Nijèr
- Gujarati: Niger
- Gujarati: નાઇજર
- Gujarati: નાઈજર
- Gun: Niger
- Haitian: Nijè
- Hakka Chinese: Niger
- Hausa: Jamhuriyar Nijar
- Hausa: Niger
- Hausa: Nijar
- Hebrew: ניגריה
- Hebrew: ניז'ר
- Hebrew: ניז׳ר
- Hindi: नाइजर
- Hungarian: Niger
- Hungarian: Nigeri Köztársaság
- Icelandic: Níger
- Ido: Nijer
- Igbo: Niger
- Iloko: Niger
- Inari Sami: Niger
- Inari Sami: Niger täsiväldi
- Indonesian: Niger
- Interlingua: Niger
- Interlingue: Niger
- Irish: An Nígir
- Irish: an Nígir
- Italian: Niger
- Jamaican Creole English: Nijier
- Japanese: ニジェール
- Japanese: ニジェール共和国
- Javanese: Niger
- Javanese: Nigér
- Kabiyè: Nizɛɛrɩ
- Kabyle: Nnijer
- Kalaallisut: Niger
- Kalmyk: Нигермудин Орн
- Kannada: ನೈಜರ್
- Kara-Kalpak: Niger
- Kashmiri: Nījē
- Kashmiri: نایجَر
- Kashmiri: नीजे
- Kazakh: Нигер
- Khmer: នីហ្សេ
- Kikuyu: Niger
- Kikuyu: Nijeri
- Kinyarwanda: Nigeri
- Kirghiz: Нигер
- Kirghiz: Нигер Республикасы
- Kongo: Nijer
- Korean: 니제르
- Kotava: Nigera
- Kurdish: Nîjer
- Kurdish: نیجەر
- Ladin: Niger
- Ladino: Nijer
- Lao: Niger
- Lao: ນິເຈີ
- Latin: Niger
- Latin: Nigritania
- Latin: Res publica Nigritana
- Latvian: Nigēra
- Ligurian: Niger
- Limburgan: Niger
- Lingala: Nizer
- Lingala: Nizé
- Lingala: Nizɛrɛ
- Lingua Franca Nova: Nijer
- Literary Chinese: 尼日
- Lithuanian: Nigeris
- Livvi: Nigeru
- Lombard: Niger
- Low German: Niger
- Low German: Republiek Niger
- Low German: Republik Niger
- Lower Sorbian: Niger
- Luba-Katanga: Nijere
- Luxembourgish: Niger
- Macedonian: Нигер
- Maithili: नाइजर
- Malagasy: Niger
- Malagasy: Nijera
- Malagasy: Nizera
- Malay: Niger
- Malayalam: നൈജർ
- Maltese: Niġer
- Maltese: in-Niġer
- Manipuri: ꯅꯥꯢꯖꯔ
- Manx: Yn Neegeyr
- Maori: Ngāika
- Marathi: नाइजर
- Marathi: नायजर
- Mazanderani: نیجر
- Min Dong Chinese: Niger
- Min Nan Chinese: Niger
- Minangkabau: Niger
- Mingrelian: ნიგერი
- Mirandese: Níger
- Moksha: Нигэр
- Mongolian: Нигер
- Mongolian: Нижер
- Mongolian: ꯅꯥꯢꯖꯔ
- Moroccan Arabic: النيجر
- Moroccan Arabic: نيجر
- Nauru: Niger
- Nepali: नाइजर
- Nepali: नाईजर
- Newari: नाइजर
- North Ndebele: Niger
- Northern Frisian: Niiger
- Northern Luri: نیجر
- Northern Sami: Niger
- Northern Sami: Nigera dásseváldi
- Northern Sami: Niger dásseváldi
- Norwegian: Niger
- Norwegian Bokmål: Niger
- Norwegian Bokmål: Republikken Niger
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Niger
- Novial: Niger
- Nyanja: Niger
- Occitan (post 1500): Nigèr
- Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): ܢܝܓܪ
- Oriya: ନାଇଜର
- Oromo: Niijer
- Ossetian: Нигер
- Pali: नीजे
- Pampanga: Niger
- Pampanga: Níher
- Panjabi: ਨਾਈਜਰ
- Papiamento: Niger
- Pedi: Niger
- Persian: نایجر
- Persian: نیجر
- Picard: Niger
- Piemontese: Nìger
- Pitcairn-Norfolk: Niijir
- Polish: Niger
- Portuguese: Categoria:Níger
- Portuguese: Níger
- Portuguese: República do Níger
- Pushto: نايجير
- Pushto: نایجر
- Pushto: نایجېر
- Quechua: Nihir
- Quechua: Niqir
- Quechua: Níger
- Rakhine: နိုင်ဂျာ သမ္မတနိုင်ငံ
- Romanian: Niger
- Romansh: Niger
- Rundi: Nijeri
- Russia Buriat: Нигер
- Russian: Нигер
- Russian: Республика Нигер
- Rusyn: Ніґер
- Sakizaya: Niger
- Samoan: Niger
- Samogitian: Nigeris
- Sango: Nizëre
- Sanskrit: नीजे
- Santali: ᱱᱟᱭᱡᱟᱨ
- Sardinian: Niger
- Sardinian: Nixèr
- Saterfriesisch: Niger
- Scots: Niger
- Scottish Gaelic: Niger
- Scottish Gaelic: Nìgeir
- Serbian: Niger
- Serbian: Нигер
- Serbo-Croatian: Niger
- Serbo-Croatian: Nnijr
- Shan: မိူင်းၼၢႆးၵျႃး
- Shona: Naija
- Shona: Niger
- Sicilian: Niger
- Silesian: Ńiger
- Sindhi: نائيجر
- Sinhala: නයිජර්
- Skolt Sami: Nigeeʹr tääʹssväʹldd
- Skolt Sami: Niger
- Slovak: Niger
- Slovak: Nigerská republika
- Slovenian: Niger
- Somali: Nayjar
- Somali: Nayjer
- South Azerbaijani: نیجر
- Southern Sotho: Niger
- Spanish: Niger
- Spanish: Níger
- Spanish: Republica del Niger
- Spanish: República del Níger
- Standard Moroccan Tamazight: ⵏⵉⵊⵉⵔ
- Sundanese: Niger
- Swahili: Niger
- Swahili: Nijeri
- Swati: INayijari
- Swedish: Niger
- Swedish: Republiken Niger
- Swiss German: Niger
- Tachelhit: Nnijr
- Tagalog: Niger
- Tagalog: Niyer
- Tajik: Нигер
- Tajik: Ниҷер
- Talysh: Niger
- Tamil: நைஜர்
- Taroko: Niger
- Tatar: Нигер
- Telugu: నైజర్
- Thai: ประเทศไนเจอร์
- Thai: ไนเจอร์
- Tibetan: ནའི་ཇར།
- Tibetan: ནི་ཇར།
- Tigrinya: ኒጀር
- Tigrinya: ናይጀር
- Tonga (Tonga Islands): Nisia
- Tosk Albanian: Niger
- Tsonga: Niger
- Tunisian Arabic: النيجر
- Turkish: Nijer
- Turkmen: Niger
- Twi: Niger
- Tyap: Ni̱njer
- Tyap: Ri̱pobi̱lik Ni̱njer wu
- Udmurt: Нигер
- Uighur: نىگېر
- Ukrainian: Нігер
- Ukrainian: Ніґер
- Ukrainian: Республіка Нігер
- Upper Sorbian: Niger
- Urdu: Нигер
- Urdu: نائجر
- Uzbek: Niger
- Venetian: Nìzer
- Veps: Niger
- Vietnamese: Cộng hoà Niger
- Vietnamese: Ni-giê (Niger)
- Vietnamese: Ni-giê
- Vietnamese: Niger
- Volapük: Nigerän
- Võro: Niger
- Walloon: Nidjer
- Waray (Philippines): Niger
- Welsh: Niger
- Western Frisian: Niger
- Western Mari: Нигер
- Western Panjabi: نائجر
- Wolof: Niiseer
- Wolof: Niseer
- Wu Chinese: 尼日爾
- Yakut: Нигер
- Yiddish: ניזשער
- Yoruba: Niger
- Yoruba: Nàìjá
- Yoruba: Nìjẹ̀r
- Yue Chinese: 尼日爾
- Zeeuws: Niher
- Zhuang: Niger
- Zulu: INayighe
- Zulu: i-Niger
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