Niger guide — editorial and map references
Prepared 26 October 2026

Scope
This is a geography and culture learning guide, not a travel itinerary.
Niger (NE) is distinct from Nigeria (NG). Nigerien refers to Niger.
Twelve city/town pins, ten heritage/landscape locations, ten illustrated reading
sections, thirty answered reading questions, existing facts rounds and links to
the existing general Hausa and French courses. No citizenship course is offered.

Geography, history and society
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niger
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography_of_Niger
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Niger
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Niger
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigerien_cuisine
https://www.unfpa.org/data/world-population/NE
https://www.worldbank.org/en/country/niger/overview
https://www.bceao.int/en/content/presentation-umoa

Transition and current conditions
https://presidence.ne/pages/refondation
The presidency's chronology dates the Refoundation Charter to 26 March 2025.
Language roles refer to that charter, not the suspended 2010 constitution.
https://www.ecowas.int/withdrawal-of-burkina-faso-republic-of-mali-and-the-republic-of-niger-from-ecowas/
https://www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/niger
The latter was retrieved on 26 October 2026 and advised against all travel.
Read it again for current conditions. Historic photos and mapped places do not
establish present safety, opening, permission to enter or a navigable route.

Heritage and wildlife
https://whc.unesco.org/en/statesparties/ne/
https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1268/ (Historic Centre of Agadez, inscribed 2013)
https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/573/ (Air and Tenere Natural Reserves)
https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/749/ (W-Arly-Pendjari Complex)
https://giraffeconservation.org/programmes/west-africa/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dabous_Giraffes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Djado_Plateau
UNESCO listing is distinguished from general heritage interest. A broad
landscape pin does not describe the exact boundary of a protected property.

Reviewed quiz wording
Eighty original seed questions are retained in scripts/fixtures/niger-facts-questions.json.
Twenty read-time corrections in src/lib/niger-facts-patches.json preserve saved
lesson/question IDs. They remove unsupported percentages and rankings, date the
suspended constitutional arrangement, distinguish Ajami from Tifinagh, identify
Bombino as a guitarist, and identify Sarcosuchus as a crocodyliform rather than a
dinosaur. Other changes clarify food descriptions and remove an unsupported
claim about the driver who knocked down the Tree of Tenere.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarcosuchus
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombino_(musician)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_of_Niger
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_of_T%C3%A9n%C3%A9r%C3%A9
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajami_script

Map provenance and limitations
National geometry is the Niger feature (ISO_A2=NE) retained from the site's
public/countries.geojson, a generalised Natural Earth-derived world map.
Natural Earth geometry is public domain: https://www.naturalearthdata.com/about/terms-of-use/
This is not a new administrative survey, and it shows no regional boundaries.
The exact retained input is scripts/niger-outline-source.geojson.
City coordinates are curated approximate settlement centres in
scripts/niger-map-places.json; GeoJSON uses [longitude, latitude].
Heritage/landscape coordinates are approximate learning points in
src/lib/country-sights/niger.json. Town-centre pins are not entrance locations.
Lake Chad and other seasonal water extents are not separately mapped.
Rebuild offline: node scripts/build-niger-map.mjs
Check: node scripts/test-niger-guide.cjs
Live check: NIGER_BASE_URL=https://worldly.academy node scripts/test-niger-guide.cjs

Photographs
Reuses the existing Niger collection at /images/facts-africa/ne/.
No new third-party photographs were downloaded. The author, licence and source
page remain visible in each image credit. Photographs are historical records,
not evidence of present access or current conditions. The food photograph is
millet on sale, rather than a prepared meal. The politics image depicts the
National Assembly building, not an assertion that it currently functions.

geography: Dunes between Fachi and Bilma in the Ténéré, Niger
/images/facts-africa/ne/geography.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fachi-Bilma-D%C3%BCnen.jpg
Holger Reineccius, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

history: The Grand Mosque of Agadez, Niger
/images/facts-africa/ne/history.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1997_277-9A_Agadez_mosque_cropped.jpg
Dan Lundberg, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

language: A classroom in Niabéré Bella, Niger
/images/facts-africa/ne/language.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Niger,_Niab%C3%A9r%C3%A9_Bella_(2),_classroom.jpg
NigerTZai, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

culture: Wodaabe participants at the Gerewol festival in In-Gall, Niger
/images/facts-africa/ne/culture.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wodaabe_during_Gerewol,_Cure_Salee,_In-Gall,_Niger_(15380276990).jpg
Alfred Weidinger from Vienna, Austria, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

economy: A market in Dogo, Niger
/images/facts-africa/ne/economy.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dogo_Niger_marketplace_(4461073366).jpg
Joris-Jan van den Boom from Delft, Netherlands, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

politics: The National Assembly in Niamey, Niger
/images/facts-africa/ne/politics.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Niger,_Niamey,_National_Assembly_(1).jpg
Vincent van Zeijst, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

nature: A West African giraffe near Kouré, Niger
/images/facts-africa/ne/nature.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Giraffe_koure_niger_2006.jpg
Roland H. https://www.flickr.com/photos/rolandh/, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

food: Millet sold at a market in N’Gonga, Niger
/images/facts-africa/ne/food.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Niger,_N%27Gonga_(5),_sale_of_millet_on_market_day.jpg
NigerTZai, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

landmarks: The Sultan’s Palace in Zinder, Niger
/images/facts-africa/ne/landmarks.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Zinder_(6328132791).jpg
Roland, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

people: Boulevard de la Jeunesse in Niamey, Niger
/images/facts-africa/ne/people.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Niger,_Niamey,_Boulevard_de_la_Jeunesse_(Rue_YA-23)(1).jpg
NigerTZai, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons