Dosso
Dosso is a city in the south-west corner of Niger, lying approximately 130–140 kilometres south-east of the capital Niamey at the junction of the main routes to Zinder and Benin.
- Type: City with 91,500 residents
- Description: urban commune in Niger
- Also known as: “Dosso, Niger” and “Dosso, Nijar”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Dosso Grand Mosque.
Dosso
- Categories: municipality of Niger, place with town rights and privileges, town, administrative region, and locality
- Location: Boboye, Dosso Region, Southwestern Niger, Niger, Sahel, Africa
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Latitude
13.0496° or 13° 2′ 59″ north
Longitude
3.1945° or 3° 11′ 40″ east
Population
91,500
Elevation
218 metres (715 feet)
UN/LOCODE
NE DSS
Open location code
7F5525XV+VQ
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Vietnamese—“Dosso” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ዶሶ”
- Arabic: “دوسو”
- Azerbaijani: “Dosso”
- Basque: “Dosso”
- Bavarian: “Dosso”
- Belarusian: “Доса”
- Bengali: “ডসো”
- Bengali: “দোস্য”
- Bulgarian: “Досо”
- Catalan: “Dosso”
- Cebuano: “Dosso”
- Chinese: “多索”
- Croatian: “Dosso”
- Danish: “Dosso”
- Dutch: “Dosso”
- Finnish: “Dosso”
- French: “Dosso”
- German: “Dosso”
- Greek: “Ντόσσο”
- Gujarati: “ડોસો”
- Hausa: “Dosso”
- Hindi: “डोस्सो”
- Hindi: “दोसो”
- Hungarian: “Dosso”
- Igbo: “Dosso”
- Indonesian: “Dosso”
- Italian: “Dosso”
- Japanese: “ドッソ”
- Javanese: “Dosso”
- Kannada: “ಡಾಸ್ಸೋ”
- Kazakh: “Досco”
- Kirghiz: “Досcо”
- Korean: “도소”
- Latvian: “Doso”
- Lithuanian: “Dosas”
- Malay: “Dosso, Niger”
- Malay: “Dosso”
- Marathi: “डोसो”
- Mingrelian: “დოსო”
- Northern Frisian: “Dosso”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Dosso”
- Oromo: “Dosso”
- Panjabi: “ਡੋਸੋ”
- Persian: “دوسو”
- Polish: “Dosso”
- Portuguese: “Dosso”
- Pushto: “دوسو”
- Romanian: “Dosso”
- Russian: “Досо”
- Russian: “Доссо”
- Sinhala: “ඩොස්සෝ”
- Somali: “Dosso”
- Spanish: “Dosso”
- Swahili: “Dosso, Niger”
- Swahili: “Dosso”
- Swedish: “Dosso”
- Tajik: “Досco”
- Tamil: “டொஸ்ஸோ”
- Tatar: “Досco”
- Telugu: “డోస్సో”
- Thai: “ดาสโซว์”
- Turkish: “Dosso”
- Ukrainian: “Досо”
- Urdu: “دوسو، نائجر”
- Urdu: “دوسو”
- Urdu: “ڈوسو”
- Uzbek: “Dosso”
- Vietnamese: “Dosso, Niger”
- Vietnamese: “Dosso”
- “Dosso”
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Places to explore: Bani Kané Fada Zéno and Village Prototype Koweït.
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