What Continent is Niger in?

Country Name : Republic of Niger

Continent: Africa

Surface : 1.267.000 km2

Capital: Niamey

Population: 22,400,000

Language: French, Hausa

Currency: Franc C. F. A.

Time zone: No difference from Italy

Country code for Italy: 0039

Country code from Italy: 00227

Niger, where there was a coup on July 26, is located in northwest Africa and is part of the Sahel, an area that also includes Mali and Burkina Faso, with which Niger borders to the west, and Chad, with which it borders instead to the east. It is four times the size of Italy, has no outlet to the sea, is poor in resources and has been hit several times by terrorist attacks by Islamist groups. It is very unstable politically, also because of the colonial regime that France imposed until the beginning of the twentieth century and from where it has never left.

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