Tanout Department

Tanout
Department

Tanout Department location in the region
Country Niger
Region Zinder Region
Population (2011)[1]
 • Total 475,125
Time zone UTC+1 (GMT 1)

Tanout is a department of the Zinder Region in Niger.[2] Its administrative seat is the city of Tanout. As of 2011, the department had a total population of 475,125 people.[3]

On 15 April 2010, the Council of Ministers announced that Amadou Seybou Dioffo, a retired Captain from the Niger Armed Forces, had been appointed prefect of the department.[4]

Municipalities

Tanout Department is divided into six municipalities, listed with population as of 2011 census:[1]

  • Gangara 120,585
  • Falanko 4,561
  • Ollelewa 105,167
  • Tanout 134,074
  • Tarka 89,533
  • Tenhia 21,205

Notes

  1. 1 2 "Annuaire Statistique du Niger 2006 - 2010: Population" (PDF). Institut National de la Statistique du Niger. 2011. pp. 61&ndash, 70, page 69.
  2. ↑ Arrondissement de Tânout (Approved) at GEOnet Names Server, United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
  3. ↑ "Annuaires_Statistiques" (PDF). Institut National de la Statistique. Retrieved 2 May 2013.
  4. ↑ "Conseil des ministres du Niger du 15 avril 2010". Temoust. 16 April 2010. Archived from the original on 19 April 2010.

Coordinates: 14°45′N 8°20′E / 14.750°N 8.333°E / 14.750; 8.333


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