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Niger (nation) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 16 00 00 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 16.0000 decimal degrees |
| Long: 008 00 00 E degrees minutes |
Long: 8.0000 decimal degrees |
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Note: Region had Paleolithic settlements; Taureg people arrived by 11th century; powerful sultanates and kingdoms flourished 15th-19th centuries; explored by Europeans 18th century; part of French West Africa 1904; boundaries demarcated by Anglo-French accords 1899 and 1904; official language is French, though Hausa and Djerma are widely spoken. |
Names: |
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| Niger (preferred,C,V,English-P,U,N)
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| Niger (Tagalog)
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| Niger (Malagasy)
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| Niger (Vietnamese)
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| Niger (Indonesian)
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| Niger (Croatian)
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| Niger (Bosnian)
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| Niger (Latin)
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| Niger (Magyar (Hungarian))
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| Niger (Danish)
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| Niger (Norwegian (Nynorsk))
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| Niger (Finnish)
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| Niger (Swedish)
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| Niger (Polish)
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| Niger (Romanian)
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| Niger (Slovak)
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| Niger (Slovene)
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| Niger (Basque)
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| Niger (Scots Gaelic)
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| Niger (Welsh)
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| Niger (German)
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| Niger (Breton)
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| Niger (Czech)
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| Niger (Dutch)
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| Niger (Afrikaans)
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| Niger (French-P,U,N)
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| Niger (Faroese)
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| Niger (Italian)
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| Niger (Estonian)
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| Niger (Greenlandic)
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| Niger (Norwegian (Bokmål))
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| Niger (Romansh)
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| Niger (Malay (macrolanguage))
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| Niger (North Ndebele)
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| Niger (Norwegian)
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| Niger (Pampanga)
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| Niger (Northern Sami)
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| Niger (Shona)
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| Niger (Swahili (generic))
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| Niger (Interlingua (International Auxiliary Language Association))
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| République du Niger (C,V,O,French,U,N)
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| Republic of the Niger (C,O,English,U,N)
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| Republic of Niger (C,O,English,U,N)
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| República del Níger (C,O)
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| Níger (C,O,Portuguese)
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| Níger (Spanish)
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| Níger (Catalan)
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| Níger (Icelandic)
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| Нигер (C,O,Urdu)
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| Нигер (Serbian)
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| Нигер (Macedonian)
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| Нигер (Bulgarian)
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| Нигер (Russian-P,U)
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| Нигер (Ossetian/Ossetic)
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| Республика Нигер (C,O,Russian,U)
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| 尼日尔 (C,O,Chinese-P,U)
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| 尼日尔共和国 (C,O,Chinese,U)
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| ا يًجَر (C,O,Arabic-P,U)
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| جُهور ةً ا يًجَر (C,O,Arabic,U)
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| NER (C,O,ISO3L)
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| NE (C,O,ISO2L)
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| ISO562 (C,O,ISO3N)
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| NG (C,O,FIPS)
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| Nigerien (C,O,English,U,A)
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| ניז'ר (C,U,Hebrew )
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| An Nígir (C,U,Irish Gaelic)
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| i-Niger (C,U,Zulu)
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| Naisia (C,U,Tonga (Tonga Islands))
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| Nayjer (C,U,Somali)
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| Nícher (C,U,Aragonese)
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| Niġer (C,U,Maltese)
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| Nig·èr (C,U,Arpitan)
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| Nigèr (C,U,Occitan)
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| Nigēra (C,U,Latvian)
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| Nigeri (C,U,Albanian)
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| Nigerië (C,U,Afrikaans)
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| Nigeris (C,U,Lithuanian)
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| Niger nutome (C,U,Ewe)
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| Niĝero (C,U,Esperanto)
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| Ni-giê (C,U,Vietnamese)
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| Ni-giê (Niger) (C,U,Vietnamese)
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| Nigyɛ (C,U,Akan)
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| Nijar (C,U,Hausa)
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| Nījē (C,U,Kashmiri)
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| Nije (C,U,Ganda (Ugandan language))
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| Nijeer (C,U,Fulah)
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| Nijer (C,U,Azerbaijani)
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| Nijer (Turkish)
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| Nijer (Ido)
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| Nîjer (C,U,Kurdish)
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| Nijere (C,U,Luba-Katanga)
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| Nijeri (C,U,Rundi)
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| Nijeri (Kikuyu)
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| Nijeri (Swahili (generic))
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| Níxer (C,U,Asturian)
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| Níxer (Galician)
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| Nizëre (C,U,Sangho)
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| Nizɛrɛ (C,U,Lingala)
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| Nizɛri (C,U,Bambara)
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| Orílẹ́ède Nàìjá (C,U,Yoruba)
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| Pow Nijer (C,U,Cornish)
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| Republik Niger (C,U,Low German)
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| ไนเจอร์ (C,U,Thai)
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| النيجر (C,U,Arabic)
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| नीजे (C,U,Sanskrit)
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| नीजे (Kashmiri)
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| نىگېر (C,U,Uyghur)
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| ნიგერი (C,U,Georgian)
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| ኒጀር (C,U,Tigrinya)
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| ኒጀር (Amharic)
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| ניז׳ר (C,U,Hebrew )
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| নাইজার (C,U,Bengali)
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| Ниҷер (C,U,Tajik)
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| ประเทศไนเจอร์ (C,U,Thai)
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| نيجر (C,U,Arabic)
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| ໄນເຈີ (C,U,Lao)
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| Ніґер (C,U,Ukrainian)
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| ニジェール (C,U,Japanese)
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| نیجر (C,U,Persian-Farsi)
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| ኒጄር (C,U,Amharic)
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| Նիգեր (C,U,Armenian)
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| Νίγηρ (C,U,Greek)
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| នីហ្សេរ (C,U,Khmer)
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| 니제르 (C,U,Korean)
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| நைஜர் (C,U,Tamil)
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| Νίγηρας (C,U,Greek)
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| Нігер (C,U,Ukrainian)
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| Нігер (Belarusian)
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| ניגריה (C,U,Hebrew )
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| نائجر (C,U,Urdu)
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| નાઇજર (C,U,Gujarati)
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| नाइजर (C,U,Marathi)
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| नाइजर (Hindi)
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| नाइजर (Nepali)
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| නයිජර් (C,U,Sinhala)
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| ནའི་ཇར། (C,U,Tibetan)
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| نیجەر (C,U,Kurdish)
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| നൈജര് (C,U,Malayalam)
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| နိုင်ဂျာ (C,U,Burmese)
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| ନାଇଜର୍ (C,U,Odia)
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| ニジェール共和国 (C,U,Japanese)
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| ನೈಜರ್ (C,U,Kannada)
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| నైజర్ (C,U,Telugu)
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Hierarchical Position: |
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Place Types: |
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| nation (preferred, C) |
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gained independence in 1960 |
| primary political unit (C) |
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| independent sovereign nation (C) |
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| republic (C) |
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initially in French Community 1958 |
| former territory/colony/dependent state (C) |
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| controlled region (H) |
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French, late 19th century-1960 |
| territory (H) |
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French, 1946-1958 |
| independent political entity (C) |
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Related geographic places: |
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| capital is .... |
Niamey .......... (inhabited place) |
| .................. |
(World, Africa, Niger, Niamey) [1091792] |
| member of .... |
French West Africa .......... (federation) |
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(World, Africa) [6002142] |
| member of .... |
United Nations .......... (organization) |
| ................ |
(World) [7029605] |
| ................ |
joined organization in 1960 |
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