Niger
Niger is an arid, landlocked country of the Sahel with a population of 12 million. It is bordered by Algeria, Mali, Burkina Faso, Benin, Nigeria, Chad and Libya.
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Niamey
Niamey, the capital of Niger, is a lively, fairly modern city of around 800,000 on the banks of the Niger River in the Tillaberi region in the far southwest of Niger.Maradi
Maradi is a city in Southern Niger. The city of Maradi is the capital of a region by the same name in the Republic of Niger that occupies a small part of the southern border with Nigeria, directly north of the cities of Kano and Katsina.Destinations
Southwestern Niger
Southwestern Niger is the western and southernmost region of Niger, spanning the Tillabére and Dosso provinces as well as the nation's capital on the Niger River.Southern Niger
Southern Niger is the Sahelian region of Niger along its border with Nigeria.Northern Niger
Northern Niger covers Niger's Saharan territory. If visiting in mid-September, just after the rainy …Niger
- Location: Sahel, Africa
- Population: 15,900,000
- Latitude of center: 17.06° or 17° 3' 36" north
- Longitude of center: 9.27° or 9° 16' 12" east
- Elevation: 1030 meters (3379 feet)
- Capital: Niamey
- Area: 1,267,000 km² (489,191 miles²)
- Languages: French, Hausa, Kanuri and Zarma
- Currency: Franc (XOF)
- Phone code: 227
- Internet domain: .ne
- Neighbors: Algeria, Benin, Burkina Faso, Chad, Libya, Mali and Nigeria
- GeoNames ID: 2440476
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Other Names for Niger
- Afrikaans: Nigerië
- Akan: Nigyɛ
- Albanian: Nigeri
- Amharic: ኒጀር
- Amharic: ኒጄር
- Arabic: النيجر
- Arabic: نيجر
- Aragonese: Nícher
- Armenian: Նիգեր
- Arpitan: Nig·èr
- Asturian: Níxer
- Azerbaijani: Nijer
- Bambara: Nizɛri
- Belarusian: Нігер
- Bengali: নাইজার
- Bulgarian: Нигер
- Burmese: နိုင်ဂျာ
- Catalan: Níger
- Central Khmer: នីហ្សេរ
- Chinese: 尼日尔
- Cornish: Pow Nijer
- English: Republic of Niger
- Esperanto: Niĝero
- Ewe: Niger nutome
- French: Niger
- French: République du Niger
- Fulah: Nijeer
- Galician: Níxer
- Ganda: Nije
- Georgian: ნიგერი
- German: Niger
- Greek: Νίγηρ
- Greek: Νίγηρας
- Gujarati: નાઇજર
- Hausa: Nijar
- Hebrew: ניגריה
- Hebrew: ניז'ר
- Hebrew: ניז׳ר
- Hindi: नाइजर
- Icelandic: Níger
- Ido: Nijer
- Irish: An Nígir
- Italian: Niger
- Japanese: ニジェール
- Japanese: ニジェール共和国
- Kannada: ನೈಜರ್
- Kashmiri: Nījē
- Kashmiri: नीजे
- Kikuyu: Nijeri
- Korean: 니제르
- Kurdish: Nîjer
- Kurdish: نیجەر
- Lao: ໄນເຈີ
- Latvian: Nigēra
- Lingala: Nizɛrɛ
- Lithuanian: Nigeris
- Low German: Republik Niger
- Luba-Katanga: Nijere
- Macedonian: Нигер
- Malayalam: നൈജര്
- Maltese: Niġer
- Marathi: नाइजर
- Nepali (macrolanguage): नाइजर
- Occitan (post 1500): Nigèr
- Oriya (macrolanguage): ନାଇଜର୍
- Ossetian: Нигер
- Persian: نیجر
- Portuguese: Níger
- Rundi: Nijeri
- Russian: Нигер
- Sango: Nizëre
- Sanskrit: नीजे
- Serbian: Нигер
- Sinhala: නයිජර්
- Somali: Nayjer
- Spanish: Níger
- Swahili (macrolanguage): Nijeri
- Tajik: Ниҷер
- Tamil: நைஜர்
- Telugu: నైజర్
- Thai: ประเทศไนเจอร์
- Thai: ไนเจอร์
- Tibetan: ནའི་ཇར།
- Tigrinya: ኒጀር
- Tonga (Tonga Islands): Naisia
- Turkish: Nijer
- Uighur: نىگېر
- Ukrainian: Нігер
- Ukrainian: Ніґер
- Urdu: Нигер
- Urdu: نائجر
- Vietnamese: Ni-giê (Niger)
- Vietnamese: Ni-giê
- Yoruba: Orílẹ́ède Nàìjá
- Zulu: i-Niger
A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving. - Lǎozǐ