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16 00 N, 8 00 E
Regional Information

Western Africa, southeast of Algeria

Capital City

Niamey
Regional Relationships

Libya claims about 25,000 sq km in a currently dormant dispute in the Tommo region; much of Benin-Niger boundary, including tripoint with Nigeria, remains undemarcated; only Nigeria and Cameroon have heeded the Lake Chad Commission's admonition to ratify the delimitation treaty which also includes the Chad-Niger and Niger-Nigeria boundaries
Environmental: Goals/Challenges/Agreements

Challenges

Overgrazing; soil erosion; deforestation; desertification; wildlife populations (such as elephant, hippopotamus, giraffe, and lion) threatened because of poaching and habitat destruction

International Agreements

Party to: Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Endangered Species, Environmental Modification, Hazardous Wastes, Ozone Layer Protection, Wetlands
signed, but not ratified: Law of the Sea
Humanitarian Projects
Native Languages

French (official), Hausa, Djerma
Climate

Desert; mostly hot, dry, dusty; tropical in extreme south