Niger
/ˈnaɪdʒə(r)/1
- a river in NW Africa, which rises on the NE border of Sierra Leone and flows in a great arc for 4,100 km (2,550 miles) north-east to Mali, then south-east through western Niger and Nigeria, before turning southwards into the Gulf of Guinea.尼日尔河（非洲西北部河流, 发源于塞拉里昂东北边境, 往东北至马里, 然后折向东南流经尼日尔和尼日利亚两国西部, 最后朝南流入几内亚湾, 全程呈巨弧状, 全长4,100公里, 即2,550英里）。
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- a landlocked country in West Africa, on the southern edge of the Sahara; pop. 15,306,300 (est. 2009); languages, French (official), Hausa, and other West African languages; capital, Niamey. Part of French West Africa from 1922, it became an autonomous republic within the French Community in 1958 and fully independent in 1960.尼日尔（西非一内陆国, 北邻撒哈拉沙漠, 2009年估计人口15,306,300; 语言有法语［官方语言］、豪萨语和其他西非语言; 首都尼亚美; 1922年起被划入法属西非, 1958年成为法兰西共同体内的一个自治共和国, 1960年完全独立）。