Gaya
Gaya is a city in the Gaya Department of the Dosso Region of Niger. The city is situated 254 km southeast of the capital, Niamey, is located on the banks of the Niger River, and is near the borders with Benin and Nigeria.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: City with 63,800 residents
- Description: urban commune in Niger
- Also known as: “Gaya, Niger”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Gaya Airport.
Gaya Airport
Aerodrome
Gaya Airport is an airport serving Gaya, Dosso Region, Niger, near the country's borders with Benin and Nigeria. It is located 2 kilometres west of the city centre.
Gaya
- Categories: municipality of Niger, border city, and locality
- Location: Dosso Region, Niger, Sahel, Africa
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Latitude
11.8848° or 11° 53′ 5″ northLongitude
3.4599° or 3° 27′ 36″ eastPopulation
63,800Elevation
177 metres (581 feet)United Nations Location Code
NE ZGAOpen location code
7F35VFM5+WXOpenStreetMap ID
node 277882623OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Gaya” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جايا”
- Arabic: “غايا”
- Catalan: “Gaya”
- Cebuano: “Gaya”
- Chinese: “加亞”
- Danish: “Gaya”
- Dutch: “Gaya”
- Finnish: “Gaya”
- French: “Gaya”
- German: “Gaya”
- Hausa: “Gaya”
- Igbo: “Gaya”
- Indonesian: “Gaya, Dosso”
- Indonesian: “Gaya”
- Italian: “Gaya”
- Japanese: “ガヤ”
- Korean: “가야”
- Lithuanian: “Gaja”
- Malay: “Gaya, Niger”
- Malay: “Gaya”
- Mingrelian: “გაია (ნიგერი)”
- Mingrelian: “გაია”
- Polish: “Gaya”
- Portuguese: “Gaya”
- Romanian: “Gaya, Niger”
- Romanian: “Gaya”
- Russian: “Гая”
- Spanish: “Gaya”
- Swahili: “Gaya, Niger”
- Turkish: “Gaya”
- Ukrainian: “Ґайя”
- Vietnamese: “Gaya, Niger”
- Vietnamese: “Gaya”
- “Gaya”
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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 “Gaya”. Photo: L.herblot, Public domain.