1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Niger
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01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Niamey—1,323,691, Africa/Niamey, and source coordinates—from live travel claims. Those fields identify and compare the record; they do not prove current transport, accessibility, census totals, or a City Atlas Club visit.
Wikidata's localized description: capital of Niger.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Niamey is GeoNames ID 2440485. Its recorded administrative path is Niamey → Niger, and GeoNames classifies the place as a capital of a political entity. Niamey occurs once as a primary city label in this atlas sample; the numeric ID remains the durable source key if names change. The city row itself was updated 2024-01-18; that date belongs to the source record, not to every transport or visitor detail in the real destination.
Within the fixed 1,206-record atlas, Niamey ranks 382 by recorded population. Inside the 1 selected Niger entries it ranks 1; inside the 243 entries in its broad region it ranks 78. Its 1,323,691 population value is 1.00 times the 1,323,691 median for the country cohort and 1.47 times the 902,588 regional median. Niamey is rank 1 among the 1 selected Niger entries, so a percentage band would overstate this small cohort. Niamey's recorded value stays within one quarter of the country-cohort median used here. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Niamey's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Sokoto at 342.776 km with 1,040,000 recorded people; Ouagadougou at 414.981 km with 2,415,266 recorded people; Katsina at 597.239 km with 670,000 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 254.463 km. Compared with Sokoto, Niamey's recorded population is 1.27 times as large. Against Niamey, Sokoto follows Sokoto North → Sokoto → Nigeria in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the selected Nigeria cohort rather than Niger, uses Africa/Lagos instead of Africa/Niamey, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is below Niamey's. Against Niamey, Ouagadougou follows Kadiogo Province → Centre → Burkina Faso in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the selected Burkina Faso cohort rather than Niger, uses Africa/Ouagadougou instead of Africa/Niamey, and carries the same capital of a political entity class. Its recorded population is above Niamey's. Against Niamey, Katsina follows Katsina → Katsina State → Nigeria in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the selected Nigeria cohort rather than Niger, uses Africa/Lagos instead of Africa/Niamey, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is below Niamey's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 1,138 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Niamey's nearest-coordinate gap belongs to the wider half of atlas distances. This pattern can reveal whether other catalog references are geographically close, but it cannot establish whether a border crossing is possible or practical, or whether rail, road, fare, or journey-time connections exist. Read as one record signature, GeoNames 2440485, the coordinate pair 13.5137 / 2.1098, country rank 1 of 1, and neighbor GeoNames 2322911 at 342.776 km bind Niamey to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Niamey's reference point is 13.5137° north and 2.1098° east. The IANA identifier Africa/Niamey is shared by 1 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLC is shared by 129 rows. Niamey's row carries a first-order administrative label but no second-order label. Niamey's point falls in the near-equatorial coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Niamey's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Niamey, so the profile preserves that missing value instead of guessing terrain. Together these fields form a reproducible identity check for this page, not a claim about walkability, climate or accessibility.
03Nearby atlas references
Niamey's closest other entries in this atlas are Sokoto (342.776 km), Ouagadougou (414.981 km), Katsina (597.239 km).
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GeoNames updated the row 2024-01-18; the atlas checked the dataset 2026-08-04. Available Wikidata fields were verified in the same run.
GeoNames data: CC BY 4.0. Wikidata labels and descriptions: CC0 1.0.