Dingazi
| Dingazi rural community | |||
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| Coordinates | 14 ° 11 ' N , 2 ° 33' E | ||
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| Country | Niger | ||
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| department | Ouallam | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | NE-6 | ||
| Residents | 44,486 (2012) | ||
Dingazi is a rural municipality in the department of Ouallam in Niger .
geography
Dingazi is in the Sahel region . The neighboring communities are Banibangou in the north, Filingué in the northeast, Tondikandia in the southeast, Ouallam and Simiri in the southwest and Tondikiwindi in the northwest. The municipality is divided into 41 administrative villages, six traditional villages, 93 hamlets and 13 camps. The main town of the rural community is Dingazi, consisting of the administrative villages of Dingazi Banda and Dingazi Laba.
In 2017, more than one hundred individual wild animals of the endangered West African giraffe were counted in Dingazi , whose main distribution area is in Kouré .
history
In 2002, as part of a nationwide administrative reform, the canton of Ouallam was dissolved and its territory was divided between the municipality of Ouallam and the newly created rural municipality of Dingazi.
population
At the 2012 census, Dingazi had 44,486 inhabitants who lived in 4,555 households. At the 2001 census, the population was 36,933 in 3,902 households.
Economy and Infrastructure
The parish is located at the transition from the agropastoral zone in the north to the rain-fed zone in the south. Labor migration abroad is of economic importance for the population .
Personalities
- Issaka Daboré (* 1940), boxer
- Ali Saibou (1940–2011), politician, President Nigers
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Répertoire National des Communes (RENACOM). (RAR file) Institut National de la Statistique, accessed November 8, 2010 (French).
- ^ Republic of Niger: Loi n ° 2002-014 du 11 JUIN 2002 portant création des communes et fixant le nom de leurs chefs-lieux .
- ↑ Abdoul Razack Moussa Zabeirou: National Survey Report of the West African Giraffe, Niger. August 2017. (PDF) Giraffe Conservation Foundation, p. 5 , accessed on April 5, 2018 (English).
- ↑ Répertoire National des localites (ReNaLoc). (RAR) Institut National de la Statistique de la République du Niger, July 2014, p. 469 , accessed on August 7, 2015 (French).
- ^ Comprendre l'économie des ménages ruraux au Niger . Save the Children UK, London 2009 ( online version ( memento of the original from September 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note. ; PDF; 2.6 MB), p. 8.
