Aderbissinat
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Aderbissinat is a department, town and commune in central Niger. As of 2012, the commune population was 35,320. It lies in the Sahel, the semi-arid, sparsely populated zone between the Sahara Desert to the north and the millet-growing savannah to the south. Raising goats, camels, and cattle is the traditional livelihood for people in this region, which gets only a few weeks of rain per year. However, recurrent drought since the 1970s has caused the starvation of many animals. This has forced many previously nomadic and semi-nomadic people to settle in and around Aderbissinat and other Sahelian
Key facts
- Settlement.official_name
- Aderbissinat
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Commune
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- Aderbissinat 03.jpg
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Niger
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- bottom
- Settlement.pushpin_mapsize
- 300
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- Location in Niger
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- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Region
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Agadez Region
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- Department
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Tchirozerine
- Settlement.area_total_km2
- 51,358
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2012
- Settlement.population_total
- 35,320
- Settlement.population_urban
- 4,672
- Settlement.population_density_km2
- auto
- Settlement.elevation_m
- 456
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Niger
- Country
- Niger
- Continent
- Africa
- Population
- 35320
- Elevation
- 456
- Time zone
- West Africa Time
- Shares border with
- Ingall
- Image
- Aderbissinat 04.jpg
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Aderbissinat is a department, town and commune in central Niger. As of 2012, the commune population was 35,320. It lies in the Sahel, the semi-arid, sparsely populated zone between the Sahara Desert to the north and the millet-growing savannah to the south. Raising goats, camels, and cattle is the traditional livelihood for people in this region, which gets only a few weeks of rain per year. However, recurrent drought since the 1970s has caused the starvation of many animals. This has forced many previously nomadic and semi-nomadic people to settle in and around Aderbissinat and other Sahelian towns. Villages within Aderbissinat include Marendet.
Aderbissinat is ethnically and linguistically mixed, with residents of Hausa, Tuareg. Nomadic Fula cattle-herders also come into town regularly to sell their wares. Although isolated, the town lies on a major trans-Saharan route linking Algeria to Nigeria. The nearest cities are Agadez to the north and Zinder to the south.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Aderbissinat” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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