Hawandawaki
| Hawandawaki rural community | |||
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| Coordinates | 13 ° 21 ′ N , 8 ° 14 ′ E | ||
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| Country | Niger | ||
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| department | Tessaoua | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | NE-4 | ||
| Residents | 39,739 (2012) | ||
Hawandawaki is a rural municipality in the department Tessaoua in Niger .
geography
Hawandawaki is located in the Sahel zone and borders the neighboring state of Nigeria in the southwest . The neighboring communities in Niger are Gazaoua in the northwest, Korgom in the north, Tsaouni in the northeast and Dan-Barto in the southeast. The municipality is divided into 28 administrative villages, 18 traditional villages, 68 hamlets and four camps. The main town of the rural community is Hawandawaki, consisting of the administrative villages Hawandawaki Haoussa and Hawandawaki Peulh.
history
In the 1960s, the market in the village of Dodori was an important transshipment point for peanuts , Niger's most important export at the time. The rural community of Hawandawaki emerged from the southern part of the canton of Korgom in 2002 as part of a nationwide administrative reform.
population
At the 2001 census, Hawandawaki had 35,143 residents. At the 2012 census, the population was 39,739.
Economy and Infrastructure
The community is located in the narrow zone along the border with Nigeria, which extends from Tounouga in the west to Malawa in the east and is used in irrigation farming for cash crops . National Road 20 runs through Hawandawaki and connects the town with the neighboring municipality of Korgom.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Répertoire National des Communes (RENACOM) ( Memento of the original from January 9, 2017 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 notice. . Institut National de la Statistique website, accessed January 22, 2011.
- ^ Republic of Niger: Loi n ° 2002-014 du 11 JUIN 2002 portant création des communes et fixant le nom de leurs chefs-lieux .
- ↑ Yves Péhaut: L'arachide au Niger (= Études d'économie africaine Série Afrique noire. . No. 1 ). Pedone, Paris 1970, p. 87 .
- ^ Institut Nationale de la Statistique du Niger (ed.): Annuaire statistique des cinquante ans d'indépendance du Niger . Niamey 2010 ( online version ; PDF; 3.1 MB), p. 55.
- ↑ Presentation of the result globaux définitifs du Quatrième (4ème) Recensement Général de la Population et de l'Habitat (RGP / H) de 2012. (PDF) Institut National de la Statistique, 2014, accessed on April 21, 2014 (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.
