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Niger, [a] officially the Republic of the Niger, [b] 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 is the leading indigenous language of the southwestern lobe of the West African nation of Niger, where the Niger River flows and the capital city, Niamey, is located. Zarma is the second-most common language in the country, after Hausa, which is spoken in south-central Niger. With over 6 million speakers, Zarma is easily the most widely ...
An enlargeable basic map of Niger. Pronunciation: / n iː ˈ ʒ ɛər / or / ˈ n aɪ dʒ ər / Common English country name: Niger; Official English country name: The Republic of Niger; Common endonym(s): Official endonym(s): Adjectival(s): Nigerien; Demonym(s): ISO country codes: NE, NER, 562; ISO region codes: See ISO 3166-2:NE
Commonwealth of Puerto Rico (official, English), Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico (official, Spanish), Porto Rico (archaic, English), Associated Free State of Puerto Rico (non-official literal translation to English of the official Spanish name), Boriquén or Borinquén (Spanish transliteration of Taíno name used colloquially), Isla del ...
Ethnolinguistic map of Niger. Niger has 11 national languages, with French being the official language and Hausa the most spoken language. Depending on how they are counted, Niger has between 8 and 20 indigenous languages, belonging to the Afroasiatic, Nilo-Saharan and Niger–Congo families. The discrepancy comes from the fact that several are ...
Zarma , the most widely spoken Songhay language with two or three million speakers, is a major language of southwestern Niger (downriver from and south of Mali) including in the capital city, Niamey. Koyraboro Senni , with 400,000 speakers, is the language of the town of Gao, the seat of the old Songhai Empire.
At 1,267,000 square kilometres (489,000 sq mi), of which 300 square kilometres (115 sq mi) is water, Niger is the world's twenty-second largest country. Niger has a total of 5,697 kilometres (3,540 mi) of borders, the longest of which is with Nigeria to the south. Niger's subtropical climate is mainly hot and dry.
" La Nigérienne" (French pronunciation: [la ni.ʒe.ʁjɛn]; "The Nigerien") is the former national anthem of Niger. The lyrics are by Maurice Albert Thiriet; Robert Jacquet and Nicolas Abel François Frionnet wrote the music. It was adopted as Niger's anthem in 1961 and relinquished in 2023.