Pont Kennedy (neighborhood)

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Pont Kennedy neighborhood
Coordinates 13 ° 29 ′  N , 2 ° 6 ′  E Coordinates: 13 ° 29 ′  N , 2 ° 6 ′  E
Basic data
Country Niger

Capital District

Niamey
Arrondissement Niamey V
ISO 3166-2 NE-8
Residents 5617 (2012)

Pont Kennedy is a neighborhood ( French : quartier ) in the Arrondissement Niamey V of the city of Niamey in Niger .

geography

Boulevard du Developpement on the northern edge of Pont Kennedy (2018)

The district is named after the road bridge of the same name, Pont Kennedy, over the Niger River, about one and a half kilometers away , which was opened in 1970. It is bordered to the north by the Center Régional AGRHYMET , to the east by the Gawèye district , to the south by the Kirkissoye district and to the west, beyond National Road 27 , to the Banga Bana district . Pont Kennedy covers an area of ​​approximately 37.3 hectares . The district lies on an alluvial floor that allows infiltration. The groundwater is at risk of being polluted.

The standard scheme for street names in Pont Kennedy is rue KI 1 , where the French rue for street is followed by KI for Kirkissoye 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. These zones mostly do not coincide with the administrative boundaries of the eponymous districts. The rue KI 1 scheme is not only used in Kirkissoye itself, but also in Pont Kennedy, among other places.

history

Pont Kennedy was created in the 1970s when the city of Niamey began to expand onto the right bank of the Niger River. During the uranium boom from 1977 to 1980, employees from Niamey mines in the north of the country bought land here. In the 1980s, Pont Kennedy and Gawèye were administratively merged into one district.

population

At the 2012 census, Pont Kennedy had 5,617 residents in 996 households. At the 2001 census, the population was 6,518 in 995 households, and at the 1988 census, the population was 5,056 in 920 households.

Infrastructure

The public primary school Ecole primaire de Pont Kennedy was founded in 1985.

Web links

Commons : Pont Kennedy (Neighborhood)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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  4. ↑ 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 .
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  6. ↑ 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]).
  7. ↑ Kokou Henri Motcho: Niamey, Garin captan Salma ou l'histoire du peuplement de la ville de Niamey . In: Jérôme Aloko-N'Guessan, Amadou Diallo, Kokou Henri Motcho (eds.): Villes et organization de l'espace en Afrique . Karthala, Paris 2010, ISBN 978-2-8111-0339-2 , pp. 30 .
  8. ↑ Répertoire National des localites (ReNaLoc). (RAR) Institut National de la Statistique de la République du Niger, July 2014, p. 718 , accessed on 7 August 2015 (French).
  9. ^ Répertoire National des Communes (RENACOM). (RAR) Institut National de la Statistique de la République du Niger, accessed on November 8, 2010 (French).
  10. ↑ 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. 226 ( web.archive.org [PDF; accessed May 4, 2019]).
  11. ↑ 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. 88 ( horizon.documentation.ird.fr [PDF; accessed May 29, 2019]).