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Geography Of Niger
Niger Information - Country Guides

Location Western Africa, southeast of Algeria
Geographic coordinates 16 00 N, 8 00 E
Map references africa 
Area total: 1.267 million sq km
water: 300 sq km
land: 1,266,700 sq km
Area comparative slightly less than twice the size of Texas
Land boundaries total: 5,697 km
border countries: algeria 956 km, benin 266 km, burkina faso 628 km, chad 1,175 km, libya 354 km, mali 821 km, nigeria 1,497 km
Coastline 0 km (landlocked)
Maritime claims none (landlocked)
Climate desert; mostly hot, dry, dusty; tropical in extreme south
Terrain predominately desert plains and sand dunes; flat to rolling plains in south; hills in north
Elevation extremes lowest point: niger river 200 m
highest point: mont bagzane 2,022 m
Natural resources uranium, coal, iron ore, tin, phosphates, gold, petroleum
Land use arable land: 3.54%
permanent crops: 0.01%
other: 96.45% (2001)
Irrigated land 660 sq km (1998 est.)
Natural hazards recurring droughts
Environment - current issues overgrazing; soil erosion; deforestation; desertification; wildlife populations (such as elephant, hippopotamus, giraffe, and lion) threatened because of poaching and habitat destruction
Environment - international agreements party to: biodiversity, climate change, desertification, endangered species, environmental modification, hazardous wastes, ozone layer protection, wetlands
signed, but not ratified: climate change-kyoto protocol, law of the sea
Geography note landlocked; one of the hottest countries in the world: northern four-fifths is desert, southern one-fifth is savanna, suitable for livestock and limited agriculture

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