class="apple-converted-space"> Niamey at the junction of the main routes to Zinder and Benin.
The seventh most populous town in Niger and the largest in Dosso Region, it had an official
population during the 2001 census of 43,561. It
is the capital of its region—which covers five departments in the southwestern
corner of the nation, as well as of its own department: Dosso Department. The city itself lies
at the center of its own Urban Commune
