Say Department

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Say is a department in the region Tilabéri in Niger.

Geography

The Department is located in the southwest of the country, bordering Burkina Faso. It consists of the township Say and the rural communities Ouro Guélédjo and Tamou. The eponymous capital of the department is Say. In the south of Say is the National Park W.

History

After independence in 1960, Niger's territory into 32 districts ( circonscriptions ) was divided. One of them was the district Say. 1964 was divided into seven administrative reform Niger departments, the predecessor of the later regions, and 32 arrondissements, the predecessor of the later departments. As part of the county Say was converted to the arrondissement Say. Moutari Moussa, later president of the National Assembly, presided from 1981 to 1983 as a sub- prefect of the arrondissement. In 1998, the former arrondissements of Niger were raised to departments, each headed by an appointed Council of Ministers is prefect. The structure of the department in communities exists since the year 2002. Previously, it consisted of the urban center and the Cantons Say Say, Guéladio, Tamou and Torodi. 2011 Torodi was dissolved as a separate department from the department Say. The 2013 appointed Prefect of Say 's Amadou Ali.

Population

The Department has Say 2012 174.211 inhabitants according to the census. In the 2001 census, before the dissolution of Torodi, there were 232 460 inhabitants in the census 1988 162 888 inhabitants and 97 486 inhabitants in the census in 1977.