Around 80 per cent Sahara, and the Air Mountains hold prehistoric rock art of a far greener past.
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Niger
Republic of Niger
Africa
ยท Western Africa
0Population
1.27Mkmยฒ of land
$554GDP / person
NiameyCapital
- ISO codes
- NE ยท NER
- Density
- 18 /kmยฒ
- Languages
- French
- Currency
- West African CFA franc (XOF)
- Dial code
- +227
- Internet domain
- .ne
- Time zones
- 1
- Coastline
- Landlocked
- Map centre
- 17.4460ยฐ N, 9.5040ยฐ E
- Demonym
- Nigerien
- UN region
- Western Africa
- Economy
- Least developed region
- Income group
- Low income
- Total GDP
- $12.91B
- Sovereignty
- Independent ยท UN member
- Borders
- 7
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By the numbers
How Niger stacks up against all 242 mapped countries.
Population
57th
of 242 ยท 0.30% of world population
Land area
23rd
of 242 ยท 0.84% of world land
GDP per person
228th
richest of 242 by output per person
Population density
194th
most crowded of 242
Ten facts about Niger
The first is hand-written; the rest are worked out from this country's own figures.
Population is about 23,310,715 people, the 57th largest of the 242 countries mapped here - roughly 0.3 per cent of everyone alive.
Covers 1,267,000 kmยฒ, making it the 23rd largest country here - about 5.2 times the size of the United Kingdom.
Population density is about 18 people per kmยฒ.
The capital is Niamey, at 13.52ยฐ N, 2.11ยฐ E, with a metropolitan population of about 915,000.
Shares land borders with 7 countries: Algeria, Benin, Burkina Faso, Chad and Libya (and 2 more).
Landlocked: every route to the sea crosses at least one border.
Keeps a single time zone, Africa/Niamey.
The currency is the West African CFA franc (XOF, symbol Fr).
The official language is French.
Local time
Live, from PHP's IANA database.
Africa/Niamey
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UTC+01:00
Cities
The largest places we hold coordinates for. Click a row to fly the map there.
1
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Niamey
Niamey
13.5187ยฐ N, 2.1147ยฐ E
915K
2
Niamey
Maradi
13.4916ยฐ N, 7.0964ยฐ E
232.56K
3
Zinder
Zinder
13.8000ยฐ N, 8.9833ยฐ E
230.36K
4
Agadez
Agadez
16.9959ยฐ N, 7.9828ยฐ E
117.77K
5
Tahoua
Tahoua
14.9000ยฐ N, 5.2599ยฐ E
115.96K
Land neighbours
7 countries share a border with Niger.