Niger River
The Niger River is the main river of West Africa, extending about 4,180 kilometres. 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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Stream
- Description: river in West Africa
- Also known as: “Dioliba”, “Dioliba Fleuve”, “Djoliba”, “fleuve Niger”, “Joliba”, “Kworra”, “Niger”, “Quorra”, “River Niger”, and “Timbiko”
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
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: Nigeria, West Africa, Africa
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Niger River” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Nigerrivier”
- Albanian: “Lumi Niger”
- Amharic: “ኒጄር ወንዝ”
- Arabic: “نهر النيجر”
- Arabic: “نيجر”
- Aragonese: “Río Nícher”
- Armenian: “Նիգեր գետ”
- Armenian: “Նիգեր”
- Assamese: “নাইজাৰ নদী”
- Asturian: “Ríu Níxer”
- Azerbaijani: “Niger çayı”
- Azerbaijani: “Niger”
- 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”
- Cornish: “Niger”
- Crimean Tatar: “Niger (özen)”
- Crimean Tatar: “Niger”
- Croatian: “Niger”
- Czech: “Niger”
- Danish: “Niger”
- Dutch: “Niger”
- Eastern Mari: “Нигер”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نهر النيجر”
- 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”
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Niger River”
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: “River Niger”
- Greek: “Νίγηρας ποταμός”
- Greek: “Νίγηρας”
- 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”
- Kabyle: “Asif n Nnijer”
- Kara-Kalpak: “Niger dáryası”
- Kara-Kalpak: “Niger”
- Kazakh: “Нигер”
- Kinyarwanda: “Umugezi wa Niger”
- Kirghiz: “Нигер дарыясы”
- Kirghiz: “Нигер”
- Korean: “나이저강”
- Korean: “니제르 강”
- Latin: “Niger”
- Latvian: “Nigēra”
- Limburgan: “Niger”
- Lingala: “Nizé”
- 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”
- Mazanderani: “نیجر (درکا)”
- Mazanderani: “نیجر”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Niger Hô”
- Mingrelian: “ნიგერი”
- Mongolian: “Нигер мөрөн”
- Moroccan Arabic: “لواد د النيجر”
- N'Ko: “ߖߋ߬ߟߌߓߊ߬ ߓߊ”
- N'Ko: “ߖߋ߬ߟߌߓߊ߬”
- N'Ko: “ߖߏ߬ߟߌߓߊ߬”
- N'Ko: “ߣߌߖ߭ߋߙߌ߫”
- Newari: “नाइजर खुसि”
- Nigerian Pidgin: “Riva Naija”
- Northern Frisian: “Niiger Struum”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Niger (elv)”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Niger”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Nigerelva”
- Norwegian: “Niger”
- Nyanja: “Mtsinje wa Niger”
- Obolo: “Okwaan̄ Naija”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Nigèr”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Niger seo Ea”
- Ossetian: “Нигер (цæугæдон)”
- Ossetian: “Нигер”
- 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”
- Sindhi: “نائجر درياهه”
- 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”
- Talysh: “Niger ru”
- 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”
- “Niger River”
- “Niger, jume”
- “Nigeris”
- “नाइजर नदी”
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