Say
Say is a town in southwest Niger, situated on the Niger River. It is the capital of the Say Department in the Tillabéri Region. Say was a small Songhai town prior to the arrival of the Fulani marabout Alfa Mohamed Diobo in the nineteenth century who converted the town to a center for Islamic learning and established the Emirate of Say.
- Type: City with 62,000 residents
- Description: urban commune in Niger
- Also known as: “Say, Niger”
Say
- Categories: municipality of Niger and locality
- Location: Tillabéri Region, Niger, Sahel, Africa
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Latitude
13.10246° or 13° 6′ 9″ north
Longitude
2.36264° or 2° 21′ 46″ east
Population
62,000
Elevation
181 metres (594 feet)
Open location code
7F544927+X3
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Urdu—“Say” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ساي”
- Catalan: “Say”
- Cebuano: “Say”
- Dutch: “Say”
- Egyptian Arabic: “سايى، النيجر”
- Finnish: “Say”
- French: “Say”
- German: “Say”
- Hausa: “Say”
- Igbo: “Say”
- Italian: “Say”
- Japanese: “セイ”
- Malay: “Say, Niger”
- Malay: “Say”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Say”
- Norwegian: “Say”
- Polish: “Say”
- Romanian: “Say, Niger”
- Romanian: “Say”
- Russian: “Се (город, Нигер)”
- Russian: “Се”
- Spanish: “Say”
- Swahili: “Say, Niger”
- Swedish: “Say, Niger”
- Swedish: “Say”
- Turkish: “Say”
- Urdu: “ساے، نائجر”
- Urdu: “ساے”
- “Say”
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