Koira Kano (Niamey)

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Neighborhood
Koira Kano
Coordinates 13 ° 32 '  N , 2 ° 4'  E Coordinates: 13 ° 32 '  N , 2 ° 4'  E
Basic data
Country Niger

Capital District

Niamey
Arrondissement Niamey I
ISO 3166-2 NE-8
Residents 12,095 (2012)

Koira Kano (also: Koirakano , Kouara Kano , Koura Kano , Kwara Kano ) is a district ( French : quartier ) in the Arrondissement Niamey I of the city of Niamey in Niger .

geography

Boulevard Askia Mohamed in Koira Kano (2017)

Koira Kano is located in the west of the urban area of ​​Niamey and has the character of a sandy suburb for the economically better off. The surrounding districts are Koubia in the northwest, Yantala Haut in the northeast, Yantala Bas in the southeast, Ambassades in the south and Goudel in the southwest. The district is located in a plateau with a sand layer more than 2.5 meters deep, which allows better infiltration than in other parts of the city.

The standard scheme for street names in Koira Kano is rue KK 1 , with the French rue for street followed by KK for Koira Kano 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

The place name comes from the Zarma language and means "charming city". The area was still an undeveloped, partly tree-lined arable area until the 1970s. Koira Kano emerged in the 1980s, a decade of particularly rapid population growth in Niamey, alongside a number of other new neighborhoods. Here, apartments of medium and high standards were built for higher officials.

population

At the 2012 census, Koira Kano had 12,095 residents who lived in 2,100 households. At the 2001 census, the population was 10,843 in 1,741 households.

Infrastructure

The public primary school Ecole primaire de Koira Kano was founded in 1991.

literature

  • Mossi Massaoudou Dari: Situation des femmes ou filles travailleuses communément appellées "bonnes" dans l'arrondissement communal N ° 1. Cas du quartier Koira Kano . Mémoire. Faculté des Lettres et Sciences Humaines, Université Abdou Moumouni de Niamey, Niamey 2012.

Web links

Commons : Koira Kano (Niamey)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Abdourahmane Idrissa, Samuel Decalo: Historical Dictionary of Niger . 4th edition. Scarecrow, Plymouth 2012, ISBN 0-7864-0495-7 , pp. 336 .
  2. ↑ Hamadou Issaka, Dominique Badariotti: Les inondations à Niamey, enjeux autour d'un phenomène complexe . In: Cahiers d'Outre-Mer . No. 263 , September 2013, p. 383–384 ( journals.openedition.org [accessed April 21, 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. ↑ 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]).
  5. ↑ 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. 46 ( theses.insa-lyon.fr [PDF; accessed May 1, 2019]).
  6. ^ Benjamin Michelon, Laurence Wilhelm, Ibrahima Goumey: Diagnostic de l'armature commerciale de la ville de Niamey. Final report. (PDF) Groupe Huit, March 2015, p. 13 , accessed on April 20, 2019 (French).
  7. ↑ Répertoire National des localites (ReNaLoc). (RAR) Institut National de la Statistique de la République du Niger, July 2014, p. 715 , accessed on August 7, 2015 (French).
  8. ^ Répertoire National des Communes (RENACOM). (RAR) (No longer available online.) Institut National de la Statistique de la République du Niger, archived from the original on January 9, 2017 ; Retrieved November 8, 2010 (French). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.stat-niger.org
  9. ↑ Daniel Barreteau, Ali Daouda: Systèmes éducatifs et multilinguisme au Niger. Results scolaires, double flux . Orstom / Université Abdou Moumouni de Niamey, Paris / Niamey 1997, ISBN 2-7099-1365-8 , p. 85 ( horizon.documentation.ird.fr [PDF; accessed May 29, 2019]).