Type Country
Usage English, French, Italian, Spanish, German, Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish, Polish, Romanian, Albanian, Georgian
Scripts ნიგერია(Georgian)
Meaning & History
From the name of the Niger River, applied in the 19th century to the British colonial territory in Western Africa. It continued to be used after the territory became an independent country in 1960.
Related Names
VariantsNiger(English) Niger(French) Niger(Italian) Níger(Spanish) Niger(German) Niger(Dutch) Niger(Swedish)
Other Languages & CulturesNigerija(Bosnian) Nigeriya(Bulgarian) Níger(Catalan) Niger, Nigerija(Croatian) Nigérie(Czech) Nigiria(Greek) Nigéria(Hungarian) Níger(Icelandic) Niger(Late Roman) Nigērija(Latvian) Nigerija(Lithuanian) Nigerija(Macedonian) Níger, Nigéria(Portuguese) Nigeriya(Russian) Niger, Nigerija(Serbian) Nigéria(Slovak) Nigerija(Slovene)
Same SpellingNigéria
