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Kantché

Matameye is a department of the in . Its capital lies at the city of . The chief town lies 72 km from . It also includes the town of . As of 2012, the department had a total population of 399,181 people.
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  • Type: Locality with 399,000 residents
  • Description: department of Niger
  • Also known as: “Departement de Kantche”, “Département de Kantché”, “Kantche Department”, “Matameye Department”, and “Matamèye Department”
  • Historically known as: “Matamèye”

Kantché

Latitude
13.4184° or 13° 25′ 6″ north
Longitude
8.5267° or 8° 31′ 36″ east
Population
399,000
Elevation
440 metres (1,444 feet)
Open location code
7F5CCG9G+9M
Open­Street­Map ID
way 1333677372
Geo­Names ID
2441216
Wiki­data ID
Q913147
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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Urdu—“Kantché” goes by many names.
  • Cebuano: “Département de Matameye”
  • Chinese: “馬塔梅耶省”
  • Dutch: “Matameye Department”
  • French: “Kantché”
  • French: “Matamèye”
  • German: “Kantché”
  • German: “Matamèye”
  • Hausa: “Matameye (sashe)”
  • Hausa: “Matameye”
  • Igbo: “Kantche Department”
  • Igbo: “Matameye Department”
  • Igbo: “Matamèye Department”
  • Italian: “Dipartimento di Matamey”
  • Italian: “Dipartimento di Matameye”
  • Japanese: “マタメ県”
  • Romanian: “Departamentul Matamèye”
  • Spanish: “Departamento de Matameye”
  • Turkish: “Matameye ili”
  • Urdu: “ماتامیئے محکمہ”
  • “Matameye Department”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Kantché”. Photo: Joris-Jan van den Boom, CC BY 2.0.