Niger
Names and codes: GeoNames, CC BY 4.0 · Boundary: Natural Earth, public domain · Refresh date not recorded · Sources and licenses
Codes and identifiers
- ISO alpha-2
- NE
- ISO alpha-3
- NER
- ISO numeric
- 562
- FIPS 10-4
- NG
- GeoNames ID
- 2440476
Key facts
- Capital
- Niamey
- Area
- 1,267,000 km²
- Population
- 22,442,948
- Currency
- Franc (XOF)
- Calling code
- +227
- Top-level domain
- .ne
- Official languages
- fr-NE,ha,kr,dje
Continent
- Name
- Africa
- Code
- AF
- In this dataset
- 58 countries
Location
- Latitude
- 18
- Longitude
- 9
- Min latitude
- 11.69577301000001
- Min longitude
- 0.15294112100011148
- Max latitude
- 23.517351176000105
- Max longitude
- 15.970321899000112
Boundary
The API call behind this page
Request
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" \
"https://geosearch.dev/v1/countries/NE?fields=iso_code,iso3_code,name,capital,population,area_sq_km,currency_code,continent_code"Response
{
"data": {
"area_sq_km": 1267000,
"capital": "Niamey",
"continent_code": "AF",
"currency_code": "XOF",
"iso3_code": "NER",
"iso_code": "NE",
"name": "Niger",
"population": 22442948
}
}Formatted for reading. The API returns the same JSON on one line.
Other endpoints for this country
/v1/countries/NE/regions/v1/cities?country=NE/v1/postal-codes?country=NE/v1/timezones?country=NE
Name in other languages
- Arabic
- النيجر
- Chinese
- 尼日尔
- English
- Niger
- French
- Niger
- German
- Niger
- Hindi
- नाइजर
- Italian
- Niger
- Japanese
- ニジェール
- Korean
- 니제르
- Portuguese
- Níger
- Russian
- Нигер
- Spanish
- Níger
- Total language variants
- 137
The API returns any of them with ?lang=.
Time zones
| IANA ID | UTC offset | DST offset |
|---|---|---|
| Africa/Niamey | UTC+01:00 | UTC+01:00 |
Postal code format
- Format
- ####
- Pattern
^(\d{4})$
First-level administrative regions
- Maradi
- Zinder
- Tahoua
- Tillaberi Region
- Dosso Region
- Niamey
- Agadez
- Diffa
8 of 8 shown, largest first
Largest cities
| City | Population |
|---|---|
| Niamey | 1,323,691 |
| Maradi | 361,702 |
| Zinder | 318,874 |
| Tahoua | 159,468 |
| Agadez | 149,549 |
| Arlit | 106,448 |
| Alaghsas | 88,561 |
| Birni N Konni | 85,494 |
| Dosso | 79,406 |
| Gaya | 61,533 |
Coverage in this dataset
- Cities
- 13,064
- First-level regions
- 8
- Postal codes
- 0
- Name languages
- 137
- Boundary polygon
- Yes
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