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Niger is a country with an area of ??1,267,000 square kilometers, and a population of 23,196,002 inhabitants according to official estimates for 2020.
Niger is an enclosed country below the Sahara, named after the Niger River. It borders Nigeria and Benin to the south, Burkina Faso and Mali to the west, Algeria and Libya to the north, and Chad to the east.
It has been plagued by famine since 2005, while in 2004 the people of Niger suffered from drought and locust plague. It is also one of the poorest countries in the world with a low ranking in the Human Development Index (167th in 169 countries in 2010). On February 18, 2010
A successful coup took place and President Mammadu Tantza was overthrown and taken prisoner by army insurgents. After a transitional period, democracy was restored in the country after the 2011 general elections.
The climate of Niger in the south is tropical, while from the central parts and further north it begins to become dry-desert.
The main factor is the Sahara Desert which covers most of the country. The same is true of vegetation: the savannah dominates in the south, the Sahel steppe further north and along the border with Nigeria, and finally further north the vegetation begins to disappear until it is found only in the oases.
(Timia, Bilma, Fatsi, Ciales cities The Nigerian part of the Sahara is occupied by the vast sandy expanse of Tenerife which in the Tuareg language means "absolutely nothing",
that is, there is neither vegetation nor life there. West of Tenerife and almost in the center of the Saharan part of Niger, rise the Bagzan or Ayr Mountains (2022 m) with several oases
and with that of Timia and generally with the largest human settlement, life and rainfall, in relation to the surrounding drier desert areas.