Niger Map with Regions

Niamey is the capital of Niger. On this map it is a unit of its own, the Ville de Niamey, and not part of any region. It was split from the old Niamey department in 1992, and since 2010 it has been a city with special status. The INS Niger projection for 1 July 2024 gives it 1,492,414 residents, the sixth most of the eight units. With 255 km² in the 2012 census report, it is also the smallest of the eight by area.

Niger has 8 first-level units, which are 7 regions and the capital district of Niamey. The regions are Agadez, Diffa, Dosso, Maradi, Tahoua, Tillabéri and Zinder. Loi n° 2001-023 of 10 August 2001 turned the 7 former departments into regions, with the same set and boundaries. The 63 departments below them are not counted among the 8. ISO 3166-2 codes the units NE-1 to NE-8, with Niamey as NE-8. Natural Earth, the source of the boundaries on this map, matches all 8 units one to one by code and name.

The Republic of Niger has no states. It has seven regions and the capital district of Niamey. The two are often confused because they share a name. Niger State, with its capital at Minna, is one of the 36 states of Nigeria and is on the Nigeria map, not this one. Separately, Niger's regions Tahoua, Dosso, Diffa, Maradi and Zinder face Nigeria's northern states along a long border. A search for Niger states therefore often returns Nigerian results. For Nigeria's units, see the Nigeria map with states.

A draft redistricting for Niger was presented on 12 May 2026. The Interior Ministry showed it to the Conseil consultatif de la Refondation. It would replace the 8 units with 19 regions and the 63 departments with 82. Agadez would split into Abzine and Kawar, Diffa into Mangari and Komadougou, and Dosso into Arewa and Zigui. Maradi, Tahoua, Tillabéri and Zinder would each become three regions, and Niamey would stay as it is. In November 2026 the draft was still unadopted, and the 8 existing units are the ones drawn here.

Agadez, the northern region, takes up more than half of Niger: 667,799 km² in the 2012 census report of INS Niger. It borders Algeria, Libya, Chad and Mali, and it is larger than the other seven units put together. Diffa and Zinder, the next two in size, are each under a quarter of that area, Tahoua is fourth at 113,371 km², and Niamey covers less than 0.1 percent of it. The figures are total area as published by INS Niger.

Niger's smallest first-level unit is its capital, Niamey, which is a unit of its own and not a region. Published figures for its area differ. The 2012 census report of INS Niger gives 255 km², while other sources give 402 and 552 km². Among the seven true regions, Dosso is the smallest at 33,844 km² in that report, followed by Maradi at 41,796 km². Both are far smaller than Agadez, Diffa or Zinder. The region table on this page uses the 255 km² census figure.

The 8 units of Niger hold 26,312,034 residents in the 1 July 2024 projection of INS Niger, and Zinder has the largest share with 5,468,989. Maradi at 5,249,420 and Tahoua at 5,138,552 are the only others above 5 million. Tillabéri has 4,202,834 and Dosso 3,172,644. Niamey has 1,492,414 and Diffa 872,672. Agadez has the fewest at 714,509, though it is the largest by area. The five units from Zinder to Dosso hold about 88 percent of the total. The 2012 census gives the same two ends of the ranking.

This map shows the 7 regions of Niger and Niamey. It does not draw the 63 departments inside them. Departments have two meanings in Niger. Before 2001 the seven regions were themselves called departments, and some datasets still use that word for them. Today the departments are the second level. In 2011 their number rose from 36 to 63, while the regions stayed the same. The draft of May 2026 would raise the departments to 82. Only the first level is drawn here.

Open the map in the Ultimaps editor, which is free and needs no account. Color the 8 units by your own figures or by hand, then add pins and labels and share or embed the result. A free export is a standard PNG with a small Ultimaps credit, and high-resolution PNG, SVG and PDF exports are part of the Pro plan. To color from a table, enter one value per unit, such as population or sales. If your table lists the 63 departments, add them up to their region first, and give Niamey its own row.