WEBNiger or the Niger, officially the Republic of the Niger, is a landlocked country in West Africa.It is a unitary state bordered by Libya to the northeast, Chad to the east, Nigeria to the south, Benin and Burkina Faso to the southwest, Mali to the west, and Algeria to the northwest.It covers a land area of almost 1,270,000 km 2 (490,000 sq mi), making it the …