Niger

Niger is a large, arid, landlocked country situated in the . Formerly a French colony, Niger is one of the poorest countries in the world and is largely agrarian.
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Niger

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Latitude of center
17.06° or 17° 3′ 36″ north
Longitude of center
9.27° or 9° 16′ 12″ east
Open­Street­Map ID
node 424311675
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­country
Geo­Names ID
2440476
Wiki­data ID
Q1032

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In Other Languages

From Abkhazian to Zulu—“Niger” goes by many names.
  • Abkhazian: “Нигер”
  • Achinese: “Niger”
  • Adyghe: “Нигер”
  • Afrikaans: “Niger”
  • Afrikaans: “Nigerië”
  • Akan: “Nigyɛ”
  • Albanian: “Niger”
  • Albanian: “Nigeri”
  • Amharic: “ኒጀር”
  • Amharic: “ኒጄር”
  • Amis: “Niger”
  • Angika: “नाइगर”
  • Arabic: “النيجر”
  • Arabic: “جمهورية النيجر”
  • Arabic: “زندر”
  • Arabic: “عاصمة النيجر”
  • Arabic: “قائمة جزر النيجر”
  • Arabic: “منطقة حضارية نيامي”
  • Arabic: “نيجر”
  • Aragonese: “Nícher”
  • Armenian: “Նիգեր”
  • Arpitan: “Nig·èr”
  • Assamese: “নাইজাৰ”
  • Asturian: “Níxer”
  • Atayal: “Niger”
  • Azerbaijani: “Niger”
  • Balinese: “Niger”
  • Bambara: “Nijer”
  • Bambara: “Nizɛri”
  • Banjar: “Niger”
  • Bashkir: “Нигер”
  • Basque: “Niger”
  • Bavarian: “Niger”
  • Belarusian: “Нігер”
  • Belarusian: “Ніґер”
  • Bengali: “নাইজার”
  • Betawi: “Nigèr”
  • Bhojpuri: “नाइजर”
  • Bhojpuri: “नाइज़र”
  • Bhojpuri: “नाईजर”
  • Bishnupriya: “নাইজের”
  • Bislama: “Naeja”
  • Bosnian: “Niger”
  • Breton: “Niger”
  • Bulgarian: “Нигер”
  • Burmese: “နိုင်ဂျာ”
  • Burmese: “နိုင်ဂျာနိုင်ငံ”
  • Catalan: “Níger”
  • Catalan: “República del Níger”
  • Cebuano: “Niger”
  • Cebuano: “Niher”
  • Central Bikol: “Niger”
  • Central Kanuri: “Niger”
  • Central Kurdish: “نیجەر”
  • Chavacano: “Níger”
  • Chechen: “Нигер”
  • Cherokee: “ᎾᎢᏨ”
  • Cherokee: “ᏍᎦᏚᎩ ᎾᎿ ᎾᎢᏨ”
  • Chinese: “尼日”
  • Chinese: “尼日尔 / 尼日”
  • Chinese: “尼日尔”
  • Chinese: “尼日爾”
  • Cornish: “Pow Nijer”
  • Corsican: “Nìger”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Niger”
  • Croatian: “Niger”
  • Czech: “Niger”
  • Dagbani: “Niger”
  • Danish: “Niger”
  • Dhivehi: “ނީޖަރު”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Nicer”
  • Dinka: “Nijer”
  • Dotyali: “नाइजर”
  • Dutch: “NE”
  • Dutch: “NER”
  • Dutch: “Niger”
  • Dutch: “Republiek Niger”
  • Dzongkha: “ནཱའི་ཇཱ”
  • Eastern Mari: “Нигер”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “نيجر”
  • Esperanto: “Niĝerlando”
  • Esperanto: “Niĝero”
  • Esperanto: “Respubliko Niĝerlando”
  • Estonian: “Niger”
  • Estonian: “Nigeri Vabariik”
  • Ewe: “Nidzɛ”
  • Ewe: “Niger nutome”
  • Extremaduran: “Nigi”
  • Farefare: “Niger”
  • Faroese: “Niger”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Niger”
  • Finnish: “Niger”
  • Finnish: “Nigerin tasavalta”
  • Fon: “Nijɛto”
  • Fon: “Nijɛtò”
  • French: “la République du Niger”
  • French: “ne”
  • French: “NE”
  • French: “NIG”
  • French: “Niger”
  • French: “République du Niger”
  • Fulah: “Niiser”
  • Fulah: “Nijeer”
  • Ga: “Niger”
  • Gagauz: “Niger”
  • Galician: “Níxer”
  • Ganda: “Niger”
  • Ganda: “Nije”
  • Georgian: “ნიგერი”
  • German: “Niger”
  • German: “Republik Niger”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Niger”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Republic of Niger”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Republic of the Niger”
  • Gilaki: “نيجر”
  • Greek: “Νίγηρ”
  • Greek: “Νίγηρας”
  • Guarani: “Níher”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Nijèr”
  • Gujarati: “નાઇજર”
  • Gujarati: “નાઈજર”
  • Gun: “Niger”
  • Haitian: “Nijè”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Niger”
  • Hausa: “Jamhuriyar Nijar”
  • Hausa: “Nijar”
  • Hebrew: “ניגריה”
  • Hebrew: “ניז’ר”
  • Hebrew: “ניז׳ר”
  • Hindi: “नाइजर”
  • Hindi: “निगेर”
  • Hungarian: “Niger”
  • Hungarian: “Nigeri Köztársaság”
  • Icelandic: “Níger”
  • Ido: “Nijer”
  • Igbo: “Niger”
  • Iloko: “Niger”
  • Inari Sami: “Niger täsiväldi”
  • Inari Sami: “Niger”
  • Indonesian: “Niger”
  • Interlingua: “Niger”
  • Interlingue: “Niger”
  • Irish: “an Nígir”
  • Irish: “An Nígir”
  • Italian: “Niger”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Nijier”
  • Japanese: “ニジェール”
  • Japanese: “ニジェール共和国”
  • Javanese: “Niger”
  • Javanese: “Nigér”
  • Kabiyè: “Nizɛɛrɩ”
  • Kabyle: “Nnijer”
  • Kalaallisut: “Niger”
  • Kalmyk: “Нигермудин Орн”
  • Kannada: “ನೈಜರ್”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Niger”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Нигер”
  • Karekare: “Nijar”
  • Kashmiri: “Nījē”
  • Kashmiri: “نایجر”
  • Kashmiri: “نایجَر”
  • Kashmiri: “नीजे”
  • Kazakh: “Нигер”
  • Khmer: “នីហ្សេ”
  • Kikuyu: “Niger”
  • Kikuyu: “Nijeri”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Nigeri”
  • Kirghiz: “Нигер Республикасы”
  • Kirghiz: “Нигер”
  • Komering: “Niger”
  • Kongo: “Nijer”
  • Kongo: “Nizé”
  • Korean: “니제르 공화국”
  • Korean: “니제르”
  • Kotava: “Nigera”
  • Kurdish: “Nîjer”
  • Kurdish: “نیجەر”
  • Ladin: “Niger”
  • Ladino: “Nijer”
  • Lao: “ນິເຈີ”
  • Latin: “Niger”
  • Latin: “Nigritania”
  • Latin: “Res publica Nigritana”
  • Latvian: “Nigēra”
  • Ligurian: “Niger”
  • Limburgan: “Niger”
  • Lingala: “Nizé”
  • Lingala: “Nizer”
  • Lingala: “Nizɛrɛ”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Nijer”
  • Literary Chinese: “尼日”
  • Lithuanian: “Nigeris”
  • Livvi: “Nigeru”
  • Lombard: “Niger”
  • Low German: “Niger”
  • Low German: “Republiek Niger”
  • Low German: “Republik Niger”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Niger”
  • Luba-Katanga: “Nijere”
  • Luxembourgish: “Niger”
  • Macedonian: “Нигер”
  • Maithili: “नाइजर”
  • Malagasy: “Niger”
  • Malagasy: “Nijera”
  • Malagasy: “Nizera”
  • Malay: “Niger”
  • Malayalam: “നൈജർ”
  • Maltese: “in-Niġer”
  • Maltese: “Niġer”
  • Manipuri: “ꯅꯥꯢꯖꯔ”
  • Manx: “ne”
  • Manx: “Niger”
  • Manx: “y Neegeyr”
  • Manx: “Yn Neegeyr”
  • Maori: “Ngāika”
  • Marathi: “नाइजर”
  • Marathi: “नायजर”
  • Mazanderani: “نیجر”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Niger”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Niger”
  • Minangkabau: “Niger”
  • Mingrelian: “ნიგერი”
  • Mirandese: “Níger”
  • Moksha: “Нигэр”
  • Mon: “နဳဂျေ”
  • Mongolian: “Нигер”
  • Mongolian: “Нижер”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “النيجر”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “نيجر”
  • Mossi: “Nìgêr”
  • Mossi: “Republic of Niger”
  • Nauru: “Niger”
  • Nepali: “नाइजर”
  • Nepali: “नाईजर”
  • Newari: “नाइजर”
  • Nigerian Pidgin: “N”
  • North Ndebele: “Niger”
  • Northern Frisian: “Niiger”
  • Northern Luri: “نیجر”
  • Northern Sami: “Niger dásseváldi”
  • Northern Sami: “Niger”
  • Northern Sami: “Nigera dásseváldi”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Niger”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Republikken Niger”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Niger”
  • Norwegian: “Niger”
  • Novial: “Niger”
  • Nupe-Nupe-Tako: “Niger Republic”
  • Nyanja: “Niger”
  • Obolo: “Nijê”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Nigèr”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܢܝܓܪ”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Nigerland”
  • Oriya: “ନାଇଜର”
  • Oromo: “Niijer”
  • Ossetian: “Нигер”
  • Pali: “नीजे”
  • Pampanga: “Niger”
  • Pampanga: “Níher”
  • Panjabi: “ਨਾਈਜਰ”
  • Papiamento: “Niger”
  • Pedi: “Niger”
  • Persian: “نایجر”
  • Persian: “نیجر”
  • Picard: “Niger”
  • Piemontese: “Nìger”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Niijir”
  • Polish: “Niger”
  • Portuguese: “Categoria:Níger”
  • Portuguese: “Níger”
  • Portuguese: “República do Níger”
  • Pushto: “نايجير”
  • Pushto: “نايجېر”
  • Pushto: “نایجېر”
  • Quechua: “Níger”
  • Quechua: “Nihir”
  • Quechua: “Niqir”
  • Rakhine: “နိုင်ဂျာ သမ္မတနိုင်ငံ”
  • Romanian: “Niger”
  • Romansh: “Niger”
  • Rundi: “Nijeri”
  • Russia Buriat: “Нигер”
  • Russian: “Нигер”
  • Russian: “Республика Нигер”
  • Rusyn: “Ніґер”
  • Sakizaya: “Niger”
  • Samoan: “Niger”
  • Samogitian: “Nigeris”
  • Sango: “Nizëre”
  • Sanskrit: “नीजे”
  • Santali: “ᱱᱟᱭᱡᱟᱨ”
  • Sardinian: “Niger”
  • Sardinian: “Nixèr”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Niger”
  • Scots: “Niger”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Nìgeir”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Niger”
  • Serbian: “Niger”
  • Serbian: “Нигер”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Niger”
  • Shan: “မိူင်းၼၢႆးၵျႃး”
  • Shona: “Nayizhe”
  • Shona: “Niger”
  • Sicilian: “Niger”
  • Silesian: “Ńiger”
  • Sindhi: “نائيجر”
  • Sinhala: “නයිජර්”
  • Skolt Sami: “Nigeeʹr tääʹssväʹldd”
  • Skolt Sami: “Niger”
  • Slovak: “Niger”
  • Slovak: “Nigerská republika”
  • Slovenian: “Niger”
  • Somali: “Nayjar”
  • Somali: “Nayjer”
  • South Azerbaijani: “نیجر”
  • Southern Sotho: “Niger”
  • Spanish: “Niger”
  • Spanish: “Níger”
  • Spanish: “República del Níger”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⵏⵉⵊⵉⵔ”
  • Sundanese: “Niger”
  • Swahili: “Niger”
  • Swahili: “Nijeri”
  • Swati: “INayijari”
  • Swedish: “Niger”
  • Swedish: “Republiken Niger”
  • Swiss German: “Niger”
  • Tachelhit: “Nnijr”
  • Tagalog: “Niger”
  • Tagalog: “Niyer”
  • Tajik: “Нигер”
  • Tajik: “Ниҷер”
  • Talysh: “Niger”
  • Tamil: “நைஜர்”
  • Taroko: “Niger”
  • Tatar: “Нигер”
  • Telugu: “నైజర్”
  • Thai: “ไนเจอร์”
  • Thai: “ประเทศไนเจอร์”
  • Tibetan: “ནའི་ཇར།”
  • Tibetan: “ནི་ཇར།”
  • Tigrinya: “ኒጀር”
  • Tigrinya: “ናይጀር”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Nisia”
  • Tsonga: “Niger”
  • Tumbuka: “Niger”
  • Tunisian Arabic: “النيجر”
  • Turkish: “Nijer”
  • Turkmen: “Niger”
  • Twi: “Niger”
  • Tyap: “Ni̱njat”
  • Tyap: “Ni̱njer”
  • Tyap: “Ri̱pobi̱lik Ni̱njer wu”
  • Udmurt: “Нигер”
  • Uighur: “نىگېر”
  • Ukrainian: “Нігер”
  • Ukrainian: “Ніґер”
  • Ukrainian: “Республіка Нігер”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Niger”
  • Urdu: “Нигер”
  • Urdu: “نائجر”
  • Uzbek: “Niger”
  • Venetian: “Nìzer”
  • Veps: “Niger”
  • Vietnamese: “Cộng hoà Niger”
  • Vietnamese: “Ni-giê (Niger)”
  • Vietnamese: “Ni-giê”
  • Vietnamese: “Niger”
  • Volapük: “Nigerän”
  • Võro: “Niger”
  • Walloon: “Nidjer”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Niger”
  • Welsh: “Gweriniaeth Niger”
  • Welsh: “Niger”
  • Western Frisian: “Niger”
  • Western Mari: “Нигер”
  • Western Panjabi: “نائجر”
  • Wolof: “Niiseer”
  • Wolof: “Niseer”
  • Wu Chinese: “尼日爾”
  • Xhosa: “Nayija”
  • Yakut: “Нигер”
  • Yiddish: “ניזשער”
  • Yoruba: “Nàìjá”
  • Yoruba: “Niger”
  • Yoruba: “Nìjẹ̀r”
  • Yue Chinese: “尼日爾”
  • Zeeuws: “Niher”
  • Zhuang: “Niger”
  • Zulu: “i-Niger”
  • Zulu: “INayighe”
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