Niger

Facts

What the numbers say about Niger

• Russia, the largest place listed, is 14.4× the size of Niger.
• Niger ranks 25th of 239 by area but only 60th of 237 by population: it holds fewer people than its size suggests.
• At 18 people per km², Niger is the 154th most densely populated of the 185 places over 1,000 km²; the median is 72 per km².
• Niger lies at 17°N, close to the equator, where a standard web map (Web Mercator) is nearly true to size: it inflates area by only about 1.1×.
• Laid out flat, Niger's main territory stretches about 1,310 km north to south and 1,680 km east to west.
• Our measured 1,181,000 km² is 6.8% below Wikidata's official figure of 1,267,000 km². Official figures can include inland water or count land that an outline draws differently. This difference is flagged for review.

How Niger measures up

Niger holds 4.0% of the land area and 1.5% of the people of the 54 countries listed for Africa. In Western Africa it is the 2nd largest of 16.

Where Niger sits

• Niger's centre lies at 17.4°N, 9.3°E, in the northern and eastern hemispheres, about 1,940 km from the equator.
• Its main territory spans 12°N to 24°N, about 1,310 km from its southern edge to its northern.

If Niger had other densities

• At Bangladesh's density of 1,252 people per km², Niger would have 1.48 billion people. It has 21.5 million.
• At Canada's density of 3.7 people per km², Niger would have 4.4 million people. It has 21.5 million.
• At the median density of the places listed, 72 per km², it would have 85.5 million.

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