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Niamey

Niamey, the capital of , is a calm, fairly modern city of around 1.3 million on the banks of the Niger River surrounded by the Tillaberi region in the far .
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  • Type: City with 1,030,000 residents
  • Description: capital of Niger
  • Also known as: “Communauté Urbaine de Niamey”, “Niamé”, and “NY”
Photo: Roland, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Stade Général Seyni Kountché and Boubou Hama National Museum.

Stadium
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is a multi-purpose stadium in Niamey, . Used for football matches, it is home to the Niger national football team, as well as Niger Premier League clubs Sahel SC, Olympic FC de Niamey, Zumunta AC and JS du Ténéré, as well as club competitions such as the Niger Cup.

Museum
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Musée National Boubou Hama is the national museum of , located in Niamey. It was founded on December 18, 1959 as Musée National du Niger. Its first conservator, Pablo Toucet, designed the concept of the museum, according to which it was part of the Culture Valley of Niamey, proposed by Boubou Hama.

Mosque
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The Grand Mosque of Niamey is a Sunni located in Niamey, that was built in the 1970s. The largest mosque in the city, it is located along Islam Avenue.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Madina and Yantala Haut.

Suburb
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is a suburb.

Suburb
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is a suburb.

Suburb
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is a suburb.

Niamey

Latitude
13.5248° or 13° 31′ 29″ north
Longitude
2.1098° or 2° 6′ 35″ east
Population
1,030,000
Elevation
206 metres (676 feet)
IATA airport code
NIM
United Nations Location Code
NE NIM
Open location code
7F54G4F5+WW
Open­Street­Map ID
node 27564937
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2440485
Wiki­data ID
Q3674
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Niamey” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Niamey”
  • Albanian: “Niamej”
  • Albanian: “Niamey”
  • Amharic: “ኒያሜ”
  • Arabic: “نيامي”
  • Aragonese: “Niamey”
  • Armenian: “Նիամեյ”
  • Asturian: “Niaméi”
  • Asturian: “Niamey”
  • Azerbaijani: “Niamey”
  • Balinese: “Niamey”
  • Bambara: “Niamɛ”
  • Bashkir: “Ниамей”
  • Basque: “Niamei”
  • Bavarian: “Niamey”
  • Belarusian: “Ніямей”
  • Belarusian: “Ніямэі”
  • Bengali: “নিয়ামে”
  • Bengali: “নিয়ামেই”
  • Bosnian: “Niamey”
  • Breton: “Niamey”
  • Bulgarian: “Ниамей”
  • Catalan: “Niamey”
  • Cebuano: “Niamey (ulohang dakbayan)”
  • Cebuano: “Niamey”
  • Central Kanuri: “Niemey”
  • Central Kurdish: “نیامەی”
  • Chechen: “Ниамей”
  • Chinese: “Niamey”
  • Chinese: “尼亚美”
  • Chinese: “尼亞美”
  • Chinese: “尼阿美”
  • Croatian: “Niamey”
  • Czech: “Niamey”
  • Danish: “Niamey”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Niamey”
  • Dutch: “Niamey”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “نيامى”
  • Esperanto: “Niameo”
  • Estonian: “Niamey”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Niamey”
  • Finnish: “Niamey”
  • French: “Niamey”
  • French: “Ville de Niamey”
  • Galician: “Niamey”
  • Georgian: “ნიამეი”
  • German: “Niamey”
  • Greek: “Νιαμέ”
  • Greek: “Νιαμέι”
  • Greek: “Νιαμέυ”
  • Guarani: “Niaméi”
  • Gujarati: “નિઆમી”
  • Haitian: “Niamè”
  • Haitian: “Nyame”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Niamey”
  • Hausa: “Niamey”
  • Hebrew: “ניאמיי”
  • Hindi: “नियामी”
  • Hindi: “नियामे”
  • Hungarian: “Niamey”
  • Icelandic: “Níamey”
  • Ido: “Niamey”
  • Igbo: “Niamey”
  • Inari Sami: “Niamey”
  • Indonesian: “Niamey”
  • Interlingua: “Niamey”
  • Interlingue: “Niamey”
  • Irish: “Niamey”
  • Italian: “Niamey”
  • Japanese: “ニアメ”
  • Kabiyè: “Ñamɛɛ”
  • Kabyle: “Niamey”
  • Kannada: “ನಿಯಾಮೆ”
  • Kazakh: “Ниамей қаласы”
  • Kazakh: “Ниамей”
  • Kikuyu: “Niamey”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Niamey”
  • Kirghiz: “Ниамей”
  • Kongo: “Niamey”
  • Korean: “니아메”
  • Kotava: “Niamey”
  • Kurdish: “Niamey”
  • Latin: “Niamey”
  • Latvian: “Niameja”
  • Ligurian: “Niamey”
  • Limburgan: “Niamey”
  • Lingala: “Niamey”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Niamey”
  • Lithuanian: “Niamėjus”
  • Livvi: “Niamei”
  • Lombard: “Niamey”
  • Low German: “Niamey”
  • Luxembourgish: “Niamey”
  • Macedonian: “Нијамеј”
  • Malagasy: “Niamey”
  • Malay: “Niamey”
  • Malayalam: “നയാമെ”
  • Marathi: “नियामे”
  • Mazanderani: “نیامی”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Niamey”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Niamey”
  • Minangkabau: “Niamey”
  • Mingrelian: “ნიამეი”
  • Moksha: “Ниамэй”
  • Mongolian: “Ниамей”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “نيامي”
  • Northern Frisian: “Niamey”
  • Northern Sami: “Niamey”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Niamey”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Niamey”
  • Norwegian: “Niamey”
  • Novial: “Niamey”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Niamey”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܢܝܐܡܝ”
  • Ossetian: “Ниамей”
  • Panjabi: “ਨਿਆਮੀ”
  • Papiamento: “Niamey”
  • Persian: “نیامی”
  • Piemontese: “Niamey”
  • Polish: “Niamey”
  • Portuguese: “Niamei”
  • Portuguese: “Niamey”
  • Pushto: “نیامی”
  • Quechua: “Niamey”
  • Romanian: “Niamey”
  • Russian: “Ниамей”
  • Sardinian: “Niamey”
  • Scots: “Niamey”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Niamey”
  • Serbian: “Нијамеј”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Niamey”
  • Silesian: “Niamey”
  • Sindhi: “نيامي”
  • Sinhala: “නියාමි දිස්ත්‍රික්කය”
  • Sinhala: “නියාමේ”
  • Skolt Sami: “Niamey”
  • Slovak: “Niamey”
  • Slovenian: “Niamey”
  • Somali: “Niamey”
  • South Azerbaijani: “نیامی”
  • Spanish: “Niamey”
  • Swahili: “Niamey”
  • Swedish: “Niamey”
  • Tagalog: “Niamey”
  • Tajik: “Ниамей”
  • Tamil: “நியமே”
  • Tamil: “நியாமி”
  • Tamil: “நையமே”
  • Telugu: “నయామీ”
  • Thai: “นีอาเม”
  • Tibetan: “ནི་ཡ་མེ།”
  • Turkish: “Niamey”
  • Turkmen: “Niameý”
  • Tyap: “Niyame”
  • Udmurt: “Ниамей”
  • Ukrainian: “Ніамей”
  • Urdu: “نیامی”
  • Uzbek: “Niamey”
  • Venetian: “Niamey”
  • Veps: “Niamei”
  • Vietnamese: “Niamey”
  • Volapük: “Niamey”
  • Võro: “Niamey”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Niamey”
  • Welsh: “Niamey”
  • Western Frisian: “Niamey”
  • Western Mari: “Ниамей”
  • Western Panjabi: “نیامی”
  • Wu Chinese: “尼亞美”
  • Xhosa: “Niamey”
  • Yiddish: “ניאמיי”
  • Yoruba: “Niamey”
  • Yue Chinese: “尼亞美”
  • Zulu: “i-Niamey”
  • “Niamey”

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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 Wikivoyage page “Niamey”. Photo: Roland, CC BY-SA 2.0.