Gouna

Region

Gouna is a rural municipality in the Department Mirriah in Niger.

Geography

Gouna is located in the Sahel. The neighboring municipalities are Kolleram the northwest, Mirriah in the northeast, southeast and Wacha Dogo in the southwest. The municipality is divided into 34 administrative villages, 40 traditional villages, 20 hamlets and three camps. The main town of the country church is the administrative village Gouna.

History

The seat of power was his Gouna Sultanate Zinder connected to 1820 by Sultan Sélimane dan Tintouma, which belonged to the kingdom of Bornu. 1899 France occupied the Sultanate of Zinder, in which it remained until 1960 for the independence of Niger. The rural community Gouna went out in 2002 as part of a nationwide administrative reform from the Canton Gouna. Floods in 2008 887 inhabitants were classified as injured. 37 houses were destroyed and flooded 37 fields.

Population

At the 2001 census Gouna had 39,700 inhabitants. For the year 2010 53.902 inhabitants were calculated. In Gouna living members of the Hausa subgroup Magouzawa engaged in agriculture, Agropastoralismus and remote pasture, and specialized in remote pasture Fulbe subgroup Bornanko'en.