Riyadh (Niamey)

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Riyadh district
Coordinates 13 ° 33 '  N , 2 ° 5'  E Coordinates: 13 ° 33 '  N , 2 ° 5'  E
Basic data
Country Niger

Capital District

Niamey
Arrondissement Niamey I
ISO 3166-2 NE-8
Residents 1653 (2012)

Riyad is a district ( French : quartier ) in the Arrondissement Niamey I of the city of Niamey in Niger .

geography

Riyadh is located to the west of the Niamey urban parish. Neighboring neighborhoods include Bobiel in the north, Dar Es Salam in the east and Yantala Haut in the south. Riyadh is mainly located in a plateau with a sand layer less than 2.5 meters deep, which means that only limited infiltration is possible. Only in the extreme southwest is the sand layer deeper than 2.5 meters. The dry valley Gounti Yéna , which has an alluvial soil with a high water table , runs through the district .

The standard scheme for street names in Riyadh and the neighboring district of Dar Es Salam is rue FK 1 , where the French rue for street is followed by the abbreviation FK for Foulani Kouara 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. The Foulani Kouara district, which is now further north, has been moved several times in its history.

history

The area of ​​the later district was still an undeveloped treeless arable area in the 1970s. In the urban expansion area of ​​Riyadh, named after the Saudi capital , the first adobe houses were built around the 1980s. In the past, the district was also known as Baghdad after the Iraqi capital .

population

At the 2012 census, Riyadh had 1,653 inhabitants who lived in 307 households.

Infrastructure

The secondary school Collège d'enseignement général France Amitié Niger (CEG FAN) has existed since 1993.

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ 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 .
  3. ↑ Hamadou Issaka: L'habitat informel dans les villes d'Afrique subsaharienne francophone à travers l'exemple de Niamey (Niger) . Thesis. Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour, Pau 2007, Chapitre VI Le squattage à Niamey: question urbaine ou question sociale? ( memoireonline.com [accessed April 21, 2019]).
  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. ^ 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).
  6. ^ The Study on Sanitation Improvement for the Niamey City in Republic of Niger. Appendix F: Existing Urban Conditions. (PDF) Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), August 2000, pp. F-1 and F-3 , accessed on April 19, 2019 .
  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. ↑ Rapport de l'étude preparatoire pour le projet de construction des établissements d'enseignement secondaire au Niger. (PDF) Chapitre 2. Agence japonaise de coopération internationale (JICA), April 2013, p. 15 , accessed on June 6, 2019 (French).