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Can you place all 67 departments of Niger?
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Niger is the largest country in West Africa, and more than half of it is one region. Agadez covers the Aïr mountains and the Ténéré desert and is larger than the other seven put together, while almost everyone lives in the Sahel and the river valley of the south. The regions are the first tier of the country, and a short list to learn.
The seven regions of Niger and the capital district of Niamey, which has the rank of a region and is a speck on the map. Six of the regions are named for their capital, a town of the same name, and the seventh, Tillabéri, curls round Niamey on the river.
Agadez is the exception to everything: it is the huge northern region that touches Libya, Algeria and Chad. The other regions are a band of similar sized pieces across the south, from Tillabéri on the Mali border to Diffa on Lake Chad.
There is no official grouping above the regions, so the groups are an unofficial cut of the map into the west along the river, the centre, the east and the Saharan north. They are a way to learn the map one piece at a time, not a classification. The regions are the Niger Departments grouped, so the borders of the two maps match exactly.
Agadez is over 600,000 square kilometres, about 52 percent of the country, and almost all of it is desert.
Niamey is the capital district, about 560 square kilometres on the river and surrounded by Tillabéri. It gets a tap area on the map.
Diffa is the south east corner of the country, on the shore of Lake Chad and the Nigerian border.
Eight on this map: seven regions and the capital district of Niamey.
It holds the Sahara part of the country, where few people live, so it was never divided further.
The departments, which number 67 on this map, counting four cities with a special status. They are their own quiz.
The tier below this one is Niger Departments. For another country at this level, see Madagascar Regions.
