Korgom
| Rural parish of Korgom | |||
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| Coordinates | 13 ° 27 ' N , 8 ° 15' E | ||
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| Country | Niger | ||
| Maradi | |||
| department | Tessaoua | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | NE-4 | ||
| Residents | 68,057 (2012) | ||
Korgom is a rural municipality in the department Tessaoua in Niger .
geography
Korgom lies at the transition from the Sahel to the greater Sudan landscape . The neighboring communities are Baoudetta , Koona and Maïjirgui in the northwest, Garagoumsa and Kantché in the northeast, Daouché in the southeast, Hawandawaki in the south and Gazaoua in the southwest. The municipality is divided into 37 administrative villages, 29 traditional villages, 45 hamlets and three camps. The main town of the rural municipality is the administrative village of Korgom.
history
At the beginning of the 19th century, Korgom belonged to the Katsina Empire , which was conquered by the Fulbe in 1812 . In 1819 the Fulbe were pushed back from the north of Katsina, where a new state was created with Maradi . The ruler of Maradi gave Korgom and Kantché to the Sultanate of Zinder as a thank you for granting him asylum by the Sultan of Zinder during the war. The French colonial administration established a canton in Korgom at the beginning of the 20th century , to which the dissolved Koona canton was attached in 1923. In 2002, as part of a nationwide administrative reform, the rural communities of Baoudetta, Hawandawaki and Koona were separated from the canton of Korgom. The rural community of Korgom emerged from the remaining area of the canton.
population
At the 2001 census, Korgom had 36,563 inhabitants. At the 2012 census, the population was 68,057. Korgom is a traditional center of the Azna .
Economy and Infrastructure
The community lies at the transition from the zone of rain-fed farming in the north to the zone of irrigated farming in the south. National Road 20 runs through Korgom and leads south via Hawandawaki to the state border with Nigeria .
Partner municipality
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Andrésy in France (since 2000)
literature
- Yves Arbel: Etude géophysique du canton de Korgom (Département de Maradi, Niger) . Travail de diplôme de geologie. Université de Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel 1998.
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 .
- ↑ Edmond Séré de Rivières: Histoire du Niger . Berger-Levrault, Paris 1965, p. 148.
- ↑ Edmond Séré de Rivières: Histoire du Niger . Berger-Levrault, Paris 1965, p. 248.
- ^ 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).
- ↑ Edmond Séré de Rivières: Histoire du Niger . Berger-Levrault, Paris 1965, p. 50.
- ^ 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.
- ↑ L'état des lieux des coopérations décentralisées entre le Niger et la France ( Memento of the original dated December 24, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) 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. . French Ministry of Foreign Affairs website , published July 27, 2009, accessed February 25, 2012.
