Zinder is Niger's third-largest city, in the country's southeast about 861 kilometers from the capital Niamey, with a population of 235,605 at the 2012 census, up from around 50,000 in 1977. Kanuri aristocrats made it the capital of the Sultanate of Damagaram in 1736, and it became a major stop on trans-Saharan trade routes linking North Africa to markets in Kano and eastward to Bornu. Its economy today rests on agriculture and industry, including leather tanning and the SORAZ refinery, commissioned in 2011 as Niger's first oil refinery.
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Founding Year Population Estimate Year Elevation (m) Latitude13.805278 degrees north 1 Elevation Band Climate Zone Sources
1. Zinder (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia Foundationlead paragraph, population figure
is the third largest city in Niger, with a population of 235,605 as by the 2012 census.
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1736
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- In Group: Cities of Western Africa (World), Wikipedia; part-of country and UN M49 subregion
View the Source 2. GeoNames: Zinder - GeoNames
GeoNamescities500 record 2437798
13.80716 8.9881 P PPLA NE 07 11996011 318874 460 Africa/Niamey
Place record, elevation
Elevation ca. 460 m
View the Source 3. Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna): World Map of the Koeppen-Geiger Climate Classification, present climate data
Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna)Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 13.75, 8.75Quote, Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 13.75, 8.75
13.75 8.75 BSh
Wikidata: Zinder
Wikidata Q204365, class allow-list match verified against P17/real-world identity (w-geo-qidcite-0926).View the Source Reader Challenges (0)
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