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Niger

Niger is one of the 193 UN member states, in Western Africa. UN Tourism counted 192,000 international arrivals there in 2019, rarer than 88% of the 199 places with figures, so its stamp in Globestamp is printed in Prism.

Niger’s stamp in Globestamp
Prism · 50,000 to 500,000 visitors a year
International arrivals
192,000in 2019, UN Tourism
Rank by visitors
175th of 199most visited first
Stamp finish
Prismrarer than 88%
Area
1,185,157 km² (457,591 sq mi)
Population
23.3 millionNatural Earth estimate
Departments
8in Globestamp’s regions layer
Airports
2with scheduled flights
World Heritage Sites
2on Globestamp’s list

Does Niger count as a country?

Yes. Niger is one of the 193 UN member states, so every common list counts it: the UN’s 193, Globestamp’s 250 and the Travelers’ Century Club’s 330.

ListCounts Niger?
UN member states (193)Yes, a member
Globestamp’s countries and territories (250)Yes
Travelers’ Century Club (330)Yes, as Niger
European UnionNo
Schengen areaNo

The Niger stamp

Every country in Globestamp has its own stamp, drawn after a real entry stamp. Its finish shows how few travelers get there. Niger’s is Prism: the full spectrum with glints, the finish for places with 50,000 to 500,000 visitors a year. With 192,000 international arrivals in 2019, Niger is rarer than 88% of the 199 places with figures. See every stamp on the stamp wall, or the rarest on the least-visited countries.

What counts as a visit to Niger

The common rule among travelers is that you set foot there: an airport layover usually doesn’t count, and a port where you went ashore does. Globestamp counts Niger when one of your photos was taken on its ground, or just off its coast; a photo taken from a plane never counts. Photos only at an airport make a transit stamp in lighter ink, counted only if you count layovers. Read more in how to count the countries you’ve visited.

Places in Niger you can collect

Under the country itself, Globestamp keeps layers of places on your globe, and a photo taken at one ticks it. These are the ones it knows in Niger, from 2 World Heritage Sites.

World Heritage Sites 2

Aïr and Ténéré National Nature Reserve (1991) · Historic Center of Agadez (2013). On the bucket list →

Largest cities

CityPeople (urban area)
Niamey915,000
Niamey232,555
Zinder230,358
Agadez117,770
Tahoua115,956
Arlit100,000
Birni Nkonni65,252

Airports

Niger has 2 airports with scheduled flights, 1 of them large. Each is a dot on Globestamp’s airports layer, and every flight you log adds to how far you’ve flown (try the flight distance calculator).

8 departments to fill in

Globestamp goes deeper than countries: its regions layer splits Niger into 8 departments (Natural Earth’s first-level divisions), and each one fills in when a photo was taken there.

All 8

Agadez · Diffa · Dosso · Maradi · Niamey · Tahoua · Tillabéri · Zinder

Questions people ask

Is Niger a country?

Yes. Niger is one of the 193 UN member states, so every common list counts it: the UN’s 193, Globestamp’s 250 and the Travelers’ Century Club’s 330.

How many tourists visit Niger a year?

UN Tourism (via the World Bank) counted 192,000 international arrivals in Niger in 2019, the 175th most of the 199 places with figures. Countries count arrivals in different ways (some include day-trippers and cruise passengers), so treat it as a rough rank rather than an exact number of tourists.

How rare is a Niger stamp in Globestamp?

It is printed in Prism, the finish for places with 50,000 to 500,000 visitors a year, rarer than 88% of the places with figures. The fewer travelers a place receives, the rarer its finish, from plain Ink to Mythic.

Does Niger count for the Travelers’ Century Club?

Yes. The Travelers’ Century Club counts it as “Niger”, one of its 330 destinations.

Places as rare as Niger

Near Niger

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