Niger Regions (original) (raw)

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Updates:

An update to ISO 3166-2, issued on 2014-11-03, changes the status of departments to regions.

Sorin Cosoveanu provided me with census data from 2012, in agreement with source [4], and with areas for the regions that I used to replace the former figures in the main table.

Country overview:

Short name NIGER
ISO code NE
FIPS code NG
Language French (fr)
Time zone +1
Capital Niamey

The area now known as Niger was part of French Sudan at the beginning of the 20th century. As the French administration got better organized, the area became a military territory, separate from the colony of Upper Senegal and Niger to its west. Niger became a territory within French West Africa on 1922-10-13. It obtained full independence on 1960-08-03.

Other names of country:

  1. Danish: Niger
  2. Dutch: Niger, Republiek Niger (formal)
  3. English: Republic of Niger (formal)
  4. Finnish: Niger
  5. French: Niger, R�publique f du Niger m (formal)
  6. German: Niger m
  7. Icelandic: N�ger
  8. Italian: Niger m
  9. Norwegian: Niger, Republikken Niger (formal)
  10. Portuguese: N�ger, Rep�blica f do N�ger m (formal)
  11. Russian: Голландия (variant), Республика Нигер (formal)
  12. Spanish: N�ger, Rep�blica f de N�ger (formal)
  13. Swedish: Niger
  14. Turkish: Nijer Cumhuriyeti (formal)

Origin of name:

Named for the Niger River, from Tamashek gher n-gheren: river among rivers

Primary subdivisions:

Niger is divided into seven r�gions (regions) and one communaut� urbaine (urban commune).

Region HASC ISO FIPS Population Area(km.�) Area(mi.�)
Agadez NE.AG 1 NG01 487,620 667,799 257,839
Diffa NE.DF 2 NG02 593,821 156,906 60,582
Dosso NE.DS 3 NG03 2,037,713 33,844 13,067
Maradi NE.MA 4 NG04 3,402,094 41,796 16,138
Niamey NE.NI 8 NG08 1,026,848 402 155
Tahoua NE.TH 5 NG06 3,328,365 113,371 43,773
Tillab�ri NE.TL 6 NG09 2,722,482 97,251 37,549
Zinder NE.ZI 7 NG07 3,539,764 155,778 60,146
8 divisions 17,138,707 1,267,147 489,248
Region: Niamey is a urban commune. HASC: Hierarchical administrative subdivision codes. ISO: Codes from ISO 3166-2. FIPS: Codes from FIPS PUB 10-4. Population: 2012-12-10 census Capitals have the same name as their regions.

Further subdivisions:

See the Departments of Niger page.

The regions are subdivided into departments, which are further subdivided into entities of three types: rural communes, urban communes, and administrative stations (postes administratifs).

Territorial extent:

Niamey is enclaved within Kollo department of Tillab�ri region.

The UN LOCODE page for Niger lists locations in the country, some of them with their latitudes and longitudes, some with their ISO 3166-2 codes for their subdivisions. This information can be put together to approximate the territorial extent of subdivisions.

Change history:

  1. 1932-09-06: Part of Upper Volta transferred to Niger
  2. 1947-09-04: Districts of Dori and Fada N'Gourma restored to Upper Volta
  3. As part of French West Africa, Niger was divided into sixteen cercles (districts): Agadez, Birni N'Konni, Dogondoutchi, Dosso, Filingu�, Gour�, Madaoua, Magaria, Maradi, N'Guigmi, Niamey, Tahoua, T�ra, Tessaoua, Tillab�ry, and Zinder. Their capitals had the same names as the districts.
  4. 1961-12-31: Law of territorial organization created 31 circumscriptions. De facto, the 16 colonial cercles continued to exist, and served as a level of division above the circumscriptions. Four cercles (Dogondoutchi, Filingu�, N'Guigmi, and T�ra) had only one circumscription.
  5. 1964-07-17: Niger reorganized into seven departments, subdivided into 32 arrondissements which corresponded to the former circumscriptions.
  6. 1988-04: Capital of Niamey department moved from Niamey to Tillab�ri.
  7. 1992: Tillab�ri department split from Niamey (whose FIPS code was NG05 before the change). Status of Niamey changed from department to urban commune.
  8. 2001-08-10: Law No. 2001-023 changed the status of departments to regions.

Other names of subdivisions:

  1. Agadez: Agad�s (obsolete)
  2. Tillab�ri: Tillab�ry (variant)

Population history:

Region 1960 1977-10-07 1988-05-10 2001-05-20 2012-12-10
Agadez 62,000 124,985 205,108 321,639 487,620
Diffa 123,000 167,389 186,792 346,595 593,821
Dosso 450,000 693,207 1,016,469 1,505,864 2,037,713
Maradi 561,000 949,747 1,385,170 2,235,748 3,402,094
Niamey 242,973 392,165 707,951 1,026,848
Tahoua 687,000 993,615 1,305,417 1,972,729 3,328,365
Tillaberi 748,000 928,849 1,322,025 1,889,515 2,722,482
Zinder 609,000 1,002,225 1,406,943 2,080,250 3,539,764
Total 3,240,000 5,102,990 7,220,089 11,060,291 17,138,707

Data for 1960-2001 are from source [2]. Other sources sometimes disagree. Census 2012: source [4].

Sources:

  1. [1] 2001 census data are from the Institut National de Statistique - Niger website (retrieved 2009-06-05).
  2. [2] Annuaire statistique des cinquante ans d'ind�pendance du Niger . Institut National de la Statistique, 2010-08 (retrieved 2012-08-21).
  3. [3] L'�valuation des effectifs de la population des pays Africains, Tome I. Groupe de D�mographie Africaine, Paris, 1982.
  4. [4] Pr�sentation des r�sultats globaux d�finitifs du Quatri�me Recensement G�n�ral de la Population et de l�Habitat (RGP/H) de 2012 . Institut National de la Statistique (retrieved 2014-04-18).