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Geography. The great bend of the Niger River, seen from space, creates a green arc through the brown of the Sahel and Savanna. The green mass on the left is the Inner Niger Delta, and on the far left are tributaries of the Senegal River. Mud houses on the center island at Lake Debo, a wide section of the Niger River.
7 paź 2024 · Niger River, principal river of western Africa. With a length of 2,600 miles (4,200 km), it is the third longest river in Africa, after the Nile and the Congo. The Niger is believed to have been named by the Greeks. Along its course it is known by several names.
29 maj 2024 · Along the river, there are two major deltas: the inland delta located in Mali, and the Niger River Delta, situated along the coast of the Gulf of Guinea in Nigeria. The Niger River Delta spans about 14,000 square miles, making it one of the largest deltas in the world (Mabogunje 2024).
1 sty 2013 · This Atlas of the Niger River Basin, published with the technical support of the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), is intended to better know the importance of these resources of the basin. It is a discovery guide of the Niger basin through a series of thematic maps of which the main ones give an overview of the critical sites in terms of biodiversity ...
3 lis 2021 · The detail on these maps allows us to glimpse the landscape along the Niger as it appeared in 1887. Following along Caron’s route, we can see villages such as Yamina on sheet 5 below – today called Nyamina, a town of 35,000 people – where he spent July 3-6, 1887.
8 cze 2018 · The Niger River's source is 150 miles inland from the Atlantic Ocean, from where the river detours into the Sahara desert, taking a sharp right turn near Mali’s Timbuktu city, and then flowing southeast into the Gulf of Guinea.
The Niger River [8] is the main river of western Africa. It is over 4180 km (2500 miles ) long. The river has a crescent shape and it goes through Guinea , Mali , Niger , on the border with Benin and then through Nigeria .
