Bangui (Niger)

Region

Bangui is a rural municipality in the Department Madaoua in Niger.

Geography

Bangui is located at the junction of Great Landscape Sudan Sahel and shares land borders with the neighboring state of Nigeria. The neighboring communities in Niger are Madaoua and Ourno in the north, Dan Goulbi and guidan Roumdji the east, and Sabon Guida in the West. The municipality is divided into 76 administrative villages, 23 traditional villages, 111 hamlets and a warehouse. The main town of the rural community is the administrative village Bangui.

The Forêt de Bangui classée is a 3275 acre protected nature woodland area in the municipality of Bangui. The protected status was made in 1954.

History

Bangui was founded by Fulani. The rural community of Bangui went as an administrative unit 2002 through the course of a nationwide administrative reform from the southeastern part of the canton Madaoua.

Population

At the 2001 census Bangui had 75 903 inhabitants. For the year 2010 102.272 inhabitants were calculated. The population is mainly composed of Hausa, Tuareg and Fulani. The predominant language is Hausa.

Culture and sights

Every year in February in Bangui instead of Hotoungo, a celebration of Fulani cattle breeders.

Economy and infrastructure

The municipality is located in that narrow zone along the border with Nigeria, ranging from Tounouga in the west to the east Malawa and operated in irrigated crop production for cash crops. By Bangui run the National Road 1, which here is part of the international highway Dakar - N'Djamena -highway, and the National Road 17