Map of Niger

Niger is located in Africa. Its territory lies in the northern and eastern hemispheres, centred near 16.0° N, 8.0° E. Niger is landlocked, enclosed on every side by its 7 neighbours — Algeria, Benin, Burkina Faso, Chad, Libya, Mali and Nigeria — with no coastline of its own. Within Africa, a continent of 54 countries bordered by the Atlantic Ocean and the Indian Ocean, Niger is mapped here in full with its borders, capital and key facts.

Landlocked Niger is surrounded by the following 7 countries. Select any neighbour to open its own map.

Niger covers about 1,267,000 km² (489,191 sq mi). That makes it the 21st-largest country in the world by area and the 6th-largest in Africa, larger by area than 48 of the continent’s 54 countries.

It is home to a population of roughly 26,312,034, the 55th-largest in the world and the 18th-largest in Africa, accounting for about 1.8% of the continent’s people. With that land area, Niger has an average population density of about 21 people per km². Among the 54 countries of Africa it stands 18th by population and 6th by area.

The seat of government is Niamey, and the official currency is the West African CFA franc (XOF, Fr), and the main official language is French. Traffic drives on the right, and the country observes the time zone UTC+01:00.

Niger carries the ISO country codes NE and NER, dials on the international calling code +227 and uses the .ne internet domain.

Niger shares its land borders with 7 countries, each of which is mapped in full on this site. Listed from the most to the least populous, here is how they compare.

Its neighbours are Nigeria (capital Abuja, about 223,800,000 people), Algeria (capital Algiers, about 47,400,000 people), Burkina Faso (capital Ouagadougou, about 24,070,553 people), Mali (capital Bamako, about 22,395,489 people), Chad (capital N'Djamena, about 19,340,757 people), Benin (capital Porto-Novo, about 13,224,860 people) and Libya (capital Tripoli, about 7,459,000 people).

By area, Niger is larger than 4 of these neighbours and smaller than 3 of them, which places its size in context along its own frontiers. Open any neighbour above to see its capital, borders and full set of facts on its own map.

The interactive map above is centred on 16.0° N, 8.0° E and opens at zoom level 4, framing Niger within Africa. A marker pin sits at the country’s approximate geographic centre; drag the map or use scroll and pinch to move from a regional overview down to the streets of Niamey. The map is drawn from OpenStreetMap data, the same open dataset used across this site, so place names, roads and coastlines stay consistent from one country to the next.

Niger lies about 1,776 km from the equator, in the northern and eastern hemispheres of the globe. As a landlocked country, every direction from its borders leads onto neighbouring land rather than the open sea.

Niger keeps a single standard time zone, UTC+01:00. That figure is the country’s offset from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the modern reference that for everyday purposes matches Greenwich Mean Time, so local clocks sit +01:00 relative to UTC before any seasonal daylight saving change.

The official currency is the West African CFA franc (XOF, Fr).

The official language is French, which is what appears on signs, documents and many of the place labels you will see on the map.

For practical reference, vehicles drive on the right-hand side of the road, the international dialling code is +227 and websites commonly use the .ne internet domain.

In short, Niger is a landlocked country in Africa, sharing land borders with 7 countries. Its capital is Niamey. Niger has a population of about 26,312,034 and covers around 1,267,000 km² (489,191 sq mi), ranking it 55th in the world by population and 21st by area. The interactive map, facts table and questions on this page bring those details together in one place for Niger.

The flag of Niger features three equal horizontal bands of orange, white and green, with an orange circle centered in the white band.

The flag of Niger is shown above as an emoji, rendered by your device’s own font; see it alongside every other nation on the flags of the world page.