Gouré
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Goure (fr. Gouré) is a Commune and town in southeastern Niger, Zinder Region, Goure Department, of which it is the seat. As of 2012, it had a population of 73,732.
Key facts
- Settlement.official_name
- Goure
- Settlement.native_name
- Gouré
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Commune
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Gouré centre 01.jpg
- Settlement.imagesize
- 250px
- Settlement.image_caption
- Town Center
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Niger
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Region
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Zinder
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Department
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Goure
- Settlement.area_total_km2
- 4,193
- Settlement.area_water_km2
- 0
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2012 census
- Settlement.population_total
- 73,732
- Settlement.population_urban
- 18,289
- Settlement.utc_offset
- +1
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Niger
- Country
- Niger
- Located in
- Gouré Department
- Continent
- Africa
- Population
- 7612
- Elevation
- 456
- Time zone
- West Africa Time
- Capital of
- Gouré Department
- Image
- Gouré centre 01.jpg
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- Gouré
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Situation
- Agriculture and environment
- Population
- References
Goure (fr. Gouré) is a Commune and town in southeastern Niger, Zinder Region, Goure Department, of which it is the seat. As of 2012, it had a population of 73,732.
==Situation== Situated on the main all-weather east–west highway in Southern Niger, it is about 170 km east of regional capital, Zinder, on the route east to Diffa, N'Guigmi, and the Lake Chad area along Niger's border with Chad. Around 40 km to the north of Goure are the Koutous hills, which form the first foothills of the Termit Massif. These hills also mark the northeastern boundary of Hausa settlement in Niger, with the desert and hills to the north sparsely populated by seasonal nomadic encampments, and the area to the east populated by a majority of settled Kanouri ethnic groups and Toubou pastoralists.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Gouré” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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