N’guigmi
N'guigmi is a city and commune of 40,000 in the easternmost part of Niger, very near to Lake Chad – lying on its shore until the lake retreated. It is a crossroads for the traditional camel caravans of the Tuareg and for traders plying North and South across the Sahara.
- Type: City with 42,500 residents
- Description: urban commune in Niger
- Also known as: “N’Guigmi” and “Ngigmi”
N’guigmi
- Categories: municipality of Niger and locality
- Location: Diffa Region, Niger, Sahel, Africa
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Latitude
14.2533° or 14° 15′ 12″ north
Longitude
13.11355° or 13° 6′ 49″ east
Population
42,500
Elevation
287 metres (942 feet)
Open location code
7F6M7437+8C
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Urdu—“N’guigmi” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “انقيقمي”
- Bulgarian: “Нгуигми”
- Catalan: “N’Guigmi”
- Cebuano: “Nguigmi”
- Chinese: “恩吉格米”
- Dutch: “N’guigmi”
- Finnish: “N’guigmi”
- French: “N’Guigmi”
- Fulah: “N’guigmi”
- German: “N’Guigmi”
- Hausa: “N’guigmi”
- Hebrew: “נז’וויגמי”
- Italian: “N’guigmi”
- Japanese: “ンギグミ”
- Korean: “은기그미”
- Korean: “응귀그미”
- Malay: “N’guigmi”
- Polish: “N’Guigmi”
- Portuguese: “N’guigmi”
- Romanian: “N’Guigmi”
- Russian: “Нгигми”
- Spanish: “N’Guigmi”
- Swahili: “Nguigmi”
- Turkish: “N’Guigmi”
- Urdu: “نگویگمی”
- “N’Guigmi”
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