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Tourist Spot Attractions In Niger

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Niger or the Niger , officially the Republic of the Niger, is a landlocked country in West Africa named after the Niger River. Niger is bordered by Libya to the northeast, Chad to the east, Nigeria to the south, Benin to the southwest, Burkina Faso and Mali to the west, and Algeria to the northwest. Niger covers a land area of almost 1,270,000 km2 , making it the largest country in West Africa. Over 80% of its land area lies in the Sahara Desert. The country's predominantly Islamic population of about 21 million mostly clusters in the far south and west of the country. The capital city is Niamey, located in Niger’s southwest corner. Niger is a develo...
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  • 2. Niamey Grand Mosque Niamey
    Niamey is the capital and largest city of the West African country Niger. Niamey lies on the Niger River, primarily situated on the east bank. It is an administrative, cultural and economic centre. Niamey's population was counted as 978,029 as of the 2012 census; the Niamey Capital District, covering 670 km2, had 1,026,848 people. As of 2017, population projections show the capital district growing at a slower rate than the country as a whole, which has the world's highest fertility rate.The city is located in a pearl millet growing region, while manufacturing industries include bricks, ceramic goods, cement and weaving.
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  • 4. The Old Quarter Agadez
    The Sahara is the largest hot desert and the third largest desert in the world after Antarctica and the Arctic. Its area of 9,200,000 square kilometres is comparable to the area of China or the United States. The name 'Sahara' is derived from a dialectal Arabic word for desert, ṣaḥra .The desert comprises much of North Africa, excluding the fertile region on the Mediterranean Sea coast, the Atlas Mountains of the Maghreb, and the Nile Valley in Egypt and Sudan. It stretches from the Red Sea in the east and the Mediterranean in the north to the Atlantic Ocean in the west, where the landscape gradually changes from desert to coastal plains. To the south, it is bounded by the Sahel, a belt of semi-arid tropical savanna around the Niger River valley and the Sudan Region of Sub-Saharan Afri...
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  • 7. Cathedral of Our Lady of Perpetual Help Niamey
    The Our Lady of Perpetual Help Cathedral or simply Cathedral of Niamey, is the name given to a religious building of the Catholic Church located in the town of Niamey, the capital of the African country of Niger. The temple began as a parish church in 1931, in May 1948 adopted its current name of Perpetual Help. Follow the Roman or Latin rite and functions as the headquarters of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Niamey which was created in 2007 by Pope Benedict XVI through the bull Cum Ecclesia Catholica. In January 2015 an important safety device in the cathedral after several churches were attacked by Muslim radicals as a consequence of the publication of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo was deployed.
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