Crossword clues for niger
niger
- American leaving queen standing in river
- African country's familiar populist politician changes sides
- One African country or another loses excellent backing
- African river flowing into the South Atlantic
- African country dominated by the Sahara, until 1969 a French colony
- Desperado finally banished from district backing African river
- African country with rich uranium deposits
- African nation or its eponymous river
- Landlocked African nation
- West African nation
- Burkina Faso neighbor
- West African country, capital Niamey
- Landlocked African country
- Algeria neighbor
- West African republic
- Neighbor of Libya and Chad
- Neighbor of Algeria
- Chad neighbor
- Landlocked African land
- Chad's neighbor
- Neighbor of Benin
- Country east of Mali
- Neighbor of Mali
- Landlocked nation of West Africa
- Benin's neighbor
- West African country named for its river
- Third-longest African river
- River to Gulf of Guinea
- River near Timbuktu
- Niamey's river
- Niamey's nation
- Niamey site
- Nation west of Chad
- Nation that's mostly the Sahara
- Nation north of Benin
- Nation east of Mali
- Major river of Western Africa
- Major exporter of uranium
- Land by Lake Chad
- Bamako's river
- African country whose name is contained in the name of its southern neighbor
- African country whose name begins another African country
- A kind of seed
- Neighbor of Chad
- Niamey's country
- Country west of Chad
- African river or country
- River to the Gulf of Guinea
- Francophone land
- Africa's third-longest river
- Chad toucher
- River through Mali
- West African river, 2,600 miles
- Timbuktu's river
- Uranium-exporting country
- Land on Lake Chad
- Big uranium exporter
- Land that's more than 90% desert
- River on the Benin border
- Where Hausa and Djerma are spoken
- Land bordering Lake Chad
- French-speaking African land
- French-speaking African nation
- Cinephile's channel
- An African river
- Flows into the South Atlantic
- A landlocked republic in West Africa
- Gained independence from France in 1960
- Most of the country is dominated by the Sahara Desert
- Niamey is its capital
- Gulf of Guinea feeder
- Mali neighbor
- River in Mali
- African republic
- River in western Africa
- Niamey's land
- River of Africa
- Long African waterway
- Its capital is Niamey
- W African river
- Third-longest river in Africa
- River in W Africa
- Where Niamey is
- African river or land
- Germany supporting uprising in African country
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
African nation, named for the river Niger, mentioned by that name 1520s (Leo Africanus), probably an alteration (by influence of Latin niger "black") of a local Tuareg name, egereou n-igereouen, from egereou "big river, sea" + n-igereouen, that word. Translated in Arabic as nahr al-anhur "river of rivers."
Wiktionary
n. An Ethiopian herb, (taxlink Guizotia abyssinica species noshow=1), grown for its seed and edible oil.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Niger ( or ; ), officially the Republic of Niger, is a landlocked country in Western Africa, named after the Niger River. Niger is bordered by Libya to the northeast, Chad to the east, Nigeria and Benin to the south, Burkina Faso and Mali to the west, and Algeria to the northwest. Niger covers a land area of almost 1,270,000 km, making it the largest country in West Africa, with over 80 percent of its land area covered by the Sahara Desert. The country's predominantly Islamic population of 17,138,707 is mostly clustered in the far south and west of the country. The capital city is Niamey, located in the far-southwest corner of Niger.
Niger is a developing country, and is consistently one of the lowest-ranked in the United Nations' Human Development Index (HDI); it was ranked last at 188th for 2014. Much of the non-desert portions of the country are threatened by periodic drought and desertification. The economy is concentrated around subsistence and some export agriculture clustered in the more fertile south, and the export of raw materials, especially uranium ore. Niger faces serious challenges to development due to its landlocked position, desert terrain, high fertility rates and resulting overpopulation without birth control, poor education and poverty of its people, lack of infrastructure, poor health care, and environmental degradation.
Nigerien society reflects a diversity drawn from the long independent histories of its several ethnic groups and regions and their relatively short period living in a single state. Historically, what is now Niger has been on the fringes of several large states. Since independence, Nigeriens have lived under five constitutions and three periods of military rule. Following a military coup in 2010, Niger has become a democratic, multi-party state. A majority live in rural areas, and have little access to advanced education.
Niger is a country in Western Africa.
Niger may also refer to:
Niger, is term taken from the Niger River, which also refers to one of Africa's five political, Sports, and Geographical regions. Other administrative divisions include the Sahara, Congo, Nile, and the Kalahari regions.
Usage examples of "niger".
The queen and ten of her beautiful young English aristocratic companions were to appear as blackamoors, an Aethiop Queen and the Daughters of Niger.
We have similar fungi on Earth, like the aspergillus niger, which can live inside an old tomb or a cave for thousands of years.
Africa, to the work in wood and metal of the Bambara of the upper Niger and a host of others: the products of an African consciousness and cosmogony and care for the decorative arts of life that made, and make, a world of their own.
Many cities of the East were stripped of their ancient honors, and obliged to pay, into the treasury of Severus, four times the amount of the sums contributed by them for the service of Niger.
Beyond the utmost limits of the Moors, the vast and inhospitable desert of the South extends above a thousand miles to the banks of the Niger.
Congo, called by the natives Zaire, and now known as the second of African rivers, the true counterpart of that western Nile, which every geographer since Ptolemy had reproduced and which, in the Senegal, the Gambia, and the Niger, the Portuguese had again and again sought to find their explanation.
Roman legate, Cornelius Balbus, conquered not only the Garamantes of the Fezzan -- which is not in question -- but went on southward until it reached the Niger.
What ever may be the ultimate destiny of Egypt, Algeria, and Morocco, will be shared by the regions of the central Niger, from Haussa to Timbuctoo.
It was not till the early part of the 18th century that the Efik, owing to civil war with their kindred and the Ibibio, migrated from the neighbourhood of the Niger to the shores of the river Calabar, and established themselves at Ikoritungko or Creek Town, a spot 4 m.
Darfur, though, lying some six hundred miles across scorching semidesert plains to the west of the middle Nile, or nearly halfway between the Nile and the Niger, a group of ruins of widely different period and appearance can still yield some notion of the extent and variety, whether Islamic or Christian, of these east-west contacts through many centuries.
No one understood better than Cicero, who was a New Man, and envied patricians like Messala Niger and Sulla very much.
He spoke of Timbuctoo, the gate of the Sahara and the Western Soudan, the frontier town where life ended and met and mingled, whither the camel of the desert brought the weapons and merchandise of Europe as well as salt, that indispensable commodity, and where the pirogues of the Niger landed the precious ivory, the surface gold, the ostrich feathers, the gum, the crops, all the wealth of the fruitful valley.
He sees KILL ALL SPIX and NIGERS, the message flanked by swastikas, and wonders at verbal depletion so complete the sufferer cannot even spell his favorite epithets.
As the photo trail moved north from the Niger into the Azaouad, a barren region of dunes and nothingness that made up but one of the many areas of the Sahara, Greenwald found fewer and fewer signs of human presence.
Sent out in 1795 by the African Society of London, he got as far as Bambarra, saw the Niger, travelled five hundred miles with a slave-merchant, reconnoitred the Gambia River, and returned to England in 1797.