Niamey
Niamey, the capital of Niger, 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 southwest of Niger.
- City with about 1,500,000 residents
- …lies at an elevation of around 210 metres (680 feet)
- …has the IATA airport code NIM
- …was formerly known as “Niamé”
- Description: capital of Niger
- Also known as“Niamey Urban Community”“NY”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Seyni Kountche Stadium and Boubou Hama National Museum.
Seyni Kountche Stadium
Seyni Kountche Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Niamey, Niger.
Boubou Hama National Museum
Musée national Boubou-Hama is the national museum of Niger, located in Niamey.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Madina and Yantala Haut.
Niamey
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Latitude
13.5248° or 13° 31′ 29″ north
Longitude
2.1098° or 2° 6′ 35″ east
UN/LOCODE
NE NIM
Open location code
7F54G4F5+WW
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Niamey” goes by many names.
NiameyAfrikaans
NiamejAlbanian
NiameyAlbanian
ኒያሜAmharic
نياميArabic
NiameyAragonese
ՆիամեյArmenian
NiaméiAsturian
NiameyAzerbaijani
NiameyBalinese
NiamɛBambara
НиамейBashkir
NiameiBasque
NiameyBavarian
НіямейBelarusian
НіямэіBelarusian
নিয়ামেBengali
নিয়ামেইBengali
NiameyBosnian
NiameyBreton
НиамейBulgarian
NiameyCatalan
NiameyCebuano
Niamey (ulohang dakbayan)Cebuano
NiemeyCentral Kanuri
نیامەیCentral Kurdish
НиамейChechen
尼亚美Chinese
尼亞美Chinese
尼阿美Chinese
NiameyCroatian
NiameyCzech
NiameyDanish
NiameyDimli (individual language)
NiameyDutch
نيامىEgyptian Arabic
NiameoEsperanto
NiameyEstonian
NiameyFiji Hindi
NiameyFinnish
NiameyGalician
ნიამეიGeorgian
ΝιαμέGreek
ΝιαμέιGreek
ΝιαμέυGreek
NiaméiGuarani
નિઆમીGujarati
NiamèHaitian
NyameHaitian
NiameyHakka Chinese
NiameyHausa
ניאמייHebrew
नियामेHindi
NiameyHungarian
NíameyIcelandic
NiameyIdo
NiameyIgbo
NiameyInari Sami
NiameyIndonesian
NiameyInterlingua
NiameyInterlingue
NiameyIrish
NiameyItalian
ニアメJapanese
ニアメーJapanese
ニアメ首都特別区Japanese
ÑamɛɛKabiyè
NiameyKabyle
ನಿಯಾಮೆKannada
НиамейKazakh
Ниамей қаласыKazakh
NiameyKikuyu
NiameyKinyarwanda
НиамейKirghiz
NiameyKongo
니아메Korean
NiameyKotava
NiameyKurdish
NiameyLatin
NiamejaLatvian
NiameyLigurian
NiameyLimburgan
NiameyLingala
NiameyLingua Franca Nova
NiamėjusLithuanian
NiameiLivvi
NiameyLombard
NiameyLow German
NiameyLuxembourgish
НијамејMacedonian
NiameyMalagasy
NiameyMalay
നയാമെMalayalam
नियामेMarathi
نیامیMazanderani
NiameyMin Dong Chinese
NiameyMin Nan Chinese
NiameyMinangkabau
ნიამეიMingrelian
НиамэйMoksha
НиамейMongolian
نياميMoroccan Arabic
NiameyNorthern Frisian
NiameyNorthern Sami
NiameyNorwegian
NiameyNorwegian Bokmål
NiameyNorwegian Nynorsk
NiameyNovial
NiameyOccitan (post 1500)
ܢܝܐܡܝOfficial Aramaic (700-300 BCE)
НиамейOssetian
ਨਿਆਮੀPanjabi
NiameyPapiamento
نیامیPersian
NiameyPiemontese
NiameyPolish
نیامیPushto
NiameyQuechua
NiameyRomanian
НиамейRussian
NiameySardinian
NiameyScots
NiameyScottish Gaelic
НијамејSerbian
NiameySerbo-Croatian
NiameySilesian
نياميSindhi
නියාමි දිස්ත්රික්කයSinhala
නියාමේSinhala
NiameySkolt Sami
NiameySlovak
NiameySlovenian
NiameySomali
نیامیSouth Azerbaijani
NiameySouthern Dagaare
NiameySwahili
NiameySwedish
NiameyTagalog
НиамейTajik
நியாமிTamil
నయామీTelugu
นีอาเมThai
ནི་ཡ་མེ།Tibetan
NiameyTurkish
NiameýTurkmen
NiyameTyap
НиамейUdmurt
НіамейUkrainian
نیامیUrdu
NiameyUzbek
NiameyVenetian
NiameiVeps
NiameyVietnamese
NiameyVolapük
NiameyVõro
NiameyWaray (Philippines)
NiameyWelsh
NiameyWestern Frisian
НиамейWestern Mari
نیامیWestern Panjabi
尼亞美Wu Chinese
NiameyXhosa
ניאמייYiddish
NiameyYoruba
尼亞美Yue Chinese
i-NiameyZulu
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