Niger
Watermark portrait: Mahamadou Issoufou
Landlocked country in West Africa
Niger, officially the Republic of the Niger, is a landlocked country in West Africa. It is a unitary state bordered by Libya to the northeast, Chad to the east, Nigeria to the south, Benin and Burkina Faso to the southwest, Mali to the west, and Algeria to the northwest. It covers a land area of almost 1.27 million km2 (490,000 mi2), making it the sixth-largest country in Africa, the largest landlocked country in West Africa and the second-largest landlocked nation in Africa behind Chad. Over 80% of its land area lies in the Sahara. Its predominantly Muslim population of about 25 million lives mostly in clusters in the south and west of the country. The capital, Niamey, is located in Niger's southwest corner along the namesake Niger River.
Text: Wikipedia — NigerCC BY-SA 4.0 · revised 2026-07-14
- Capital
- Niamey
- Currency
- West African CFA franc (XOF)
- Official language
- Hausa
- Drives on the
- Right
- Calling code
- +227
- Licence plate code
- RN
- Top-level domain
- .ne
- Independence / founding
- 1960
- Highest point
- Mont Idoukal-n-Taghès (2,022 m)
- Lowest point
- Niger River (200 m)
- Anthem
- L'Honneur de la Patrie
The World Bank does not publish figures for Niger, so this note carries no economic or social statistics.
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