Boukoki IV

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Neighborhood
Boukoki IV
Coordinates 13 ° 32 '  N , 2 ° 8'  E Coordinates: 13 ° 32 '  N , 2 ° 8'  E
Basic data
Country Niger

Capital District

Niamey
Arrondissement Niamey III
ISO 3166-2 NE-8
Residents 18,155 (2012)

Boukoki IV is a neighborhood ( French : quartier ) in the Arrondissement Niamey III of the city of Niamey in Niger .

geography

Avenue de l'Ader on the border between the districts of Boukoki IV, here on the left, and Boukoki II , here on the right (2018)

Boukoki IV belongs to the north of the historic center of Niamey city district Boukoki . The neighboring districts are Couronne Nord in the north, Madina in the east, Abidjan in the south, Boukoki I in the southwest and Boukoki II in the northwest. Boukoki IV extends over an area of ​​almost 100 hectares and is located in a plateau with a layer of sand that, apart from a section in the north, is more than 2.5 meters deep, which allows better infiltration than in other parts of the city.

The standard scheme for street names in Boukoki IV is rue BK 1 , where the French rue for street is followed by the abbreviation BK for Boukoki and finally a number. This goes back to a project to name streets in Niamey in 2002, in which the city was divided into 44 zones, each with its own letter abbreviations.

history

In the 1960s, housing developments for immigrants from the interior of the country developed in the individual quarters of Boukoki, who moved to the capital partly because of the poor food situation in the country. Boukoki IV was only partially built up in the 1970s and had a large tree-lined fruit and vegetable growing area in its center.

population

At the 2012 census, Boukoki IV had 18,155 inhabitants who lived in 3,245 households. At the 2001 census the population was 21,749 in 3,493 households, and at the 1988 census the population was 14,502 in 2,530 households.

Infrastructure

There is a health center in the district with a Center de Santé Intégré (CSI).

Web links

Commons : Boukoki IV  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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  2. ^ The Study on Sanitation Improvement for the Niamey City in Republic of Niger. Appendix F: Existing Urban Conditions. (PDF) Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), August 2000, p. F-3 , accessed April 19, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Catherine Farvacque-Vitkovic, Lucien Godin, Hugues Leroux, Florence Verdet, Roberto Chavez: Street Addressing and the Management of Cities . World Bank, Washington, DC 2005, ISBN 0-8213-5815-4 , pp. 85 and 89 .
  4. ↑ Apollinaire Tini: La gestion des déchets solid ménagers à Niamey au Niger: essai pour une stratégie de gestion durable . Thèse de doctorat. Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon, Lyon 2003, p. 45 ( theses.insa-lyon.fr [PDF; accessed May 1, 2019]).
  5. ↑ République du Niger. Niamey et ses environs. Echelle 1: 20000 . Map. Institut Géographique National, Paris 1978 ( esdac.jrc.ec.europa.eu [PDF; accessed April 29, 2019]).
  6. ↑ Répertoire National des localites (ReNaLoc). (RAR) Institut National de la Statistique de la République du Niger, July 2014, p. 716 , accessed on 7 August 2015 (French).
  7. ^ Répertoire National des Communes (RENACOM). (RAR) Institut National de la Statistique de la République du Niger, accessed on November 8, 2010 (French).
  8. ↑ Recensement Général de la Population 1988: Répertoire National des Villages du Niger . Bureau Central de Recensement, Ministère du Plan, République du Niger, Niamey March 1991, p. 223 ( web.archive.org [PDF; accessed May 4, 2019]).
  9. ^ Niger DSS. In: Systems Nationale d'Information Sanitaire (SNIS). Ministère de la Santé Publique, République du Niger, accessed on June 9, 2019 (French).