Birni N'Gaouré explained

Official Name:Birni N'Gaouré
Settlement Type:Commune and town
Pushpin Map:Niger
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Name:Niger
Subdivision Type1:Dosso
Subdivision Name1:Region
Subdivision Type2:Boboye
Subdivision Name2:Department
Subdivision Type3:Birni N'Gaouré
Subdivision Name3:Commune
Population As Of:2011
Population Footnotes:[1]
Population Total:54622
Utc Offset:+1
Coordinates:13.0878°N 2.9169°W
Elevation M:175
Elevation Ft:577

Birni N'Gaouré (or Birnin Gaouré) is a town located in the Dosso Region in southwest Niger. A town of over ten thousand, it is the departmental seat of Boboye Department, and is the main town of the fertile farming region in which it is located. "Birni", in the name of the town, derives from the Hausa language word for a walled city.

The town has a station on the Niamey - Dosso railway line. Built between 2014 and 2016 the objective of this line was to connect Niger to the rail network in Benin and thus to the coast. But the connection to Benin never materialized. The rail now ends in Dosso and no train has ever stopped at the Birni N'Gaouré station.

Notes and References

  1. http://www.citypopulation.de/Niger.html Fonte citypopulation.de