Key facts
- Country
- Niger
- Region
- Dosso Region
- Department
- Dosso Department
- Urban commune
- Dosso
- Elevation
- 227 m (745 ft)
- Total
- 58,671
- Summer dst
- UTC+1 ( WAT )
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Official name
- Dosso
- Country
- Niger
- Located in
- Dosso Department
- Continent
- Africa
- Population
- 43293
- Elevation
- 227
- Time zone
- West Africa Time
- Capital of
- Dosso Kingdom
- Image
- Niger, Dosso (5), busy street.jpg
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- Commons category
- Dosso
- inception
- 1750-00-00
- different from
- Dosso
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Encyclopedic overview
Street in an average residential neighborhood Dosso railway station, never used. Dosso is a city in the south-west corner of Niger, lying approximately 130–140 kilometres (81–87 mi) south-east of the capital Niamey at the junction of the main routes to Zinder and Benin. The eighth-most populous town in Niger and the largest in Dosso Region, it had an official population during the 2001 census of 43,561. The population grew to 58,671 in the 2012 census. It is the capital of its region - which covers five departments in the southwestern corner of the nation - as well as of its own department, Dosso Department. The city itself lies at the centre of its own Urban Commune.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Dosso” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.