Why Do Nigeria & Niger Have Such Similar Names?

Anyone watching from either of these countries?

Dear Africa,

Before the advent of Christianity and Islam Africa was self sufficient and a respected group of Countries

Hence kick out Christianity and Islam and make Africa great again

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I get that Niger and Nigeria were named by the French and British based on the river Niger (and out of laziness) and that they are not the same, but how culturally similar are Nigeria and Niger?

How Indonesia is named after Indus river?

Because they both have Nigers

Nigerian here

I read online it means n word area

The names come from the N word. Ask any French speaking person they would tell the meaning of the Nword (actually a combination of 2 words).
Big nose people. Is what it means.
The governments of these countries should rename them.

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They are black

It sounds like the n word

"Racist"

There is a Simeon Niger mentioned in the bible, it is believe he was from a place called Niger, in keeping with contemporary naming traditions, if this is true, then the name is much older.

Drive across the border of the two countries say from Katsina in Nigeria to Maradi in Niger you would be perplexed by how much the two countries have in common. These countries are indeed one country divided by artificial border. Isn't it time we start thinking about.....,...

Rip Nigerland

Latin -ia is rendered in French as ie Patagonie, Francie (Frankia, as in East and West), Anatolie, Lusitanie In Southern French this final -e is pronounced as a sort of schwa. So basically these all end in -ia, they just changed the spelling.
-cia, is often reduce to -ce France [Spanish/Italian, Francia, though it is palatalized in italian making it somehow "between" (Southern)French and Spanish...],
-sia to -se (ze), Frisia (and its modern descendant Friesland) = La Frise (thus, freeze, as you will do if you live there in the winter).

Didn't France occupy Algeria? Or was it Libya?

He gets the n word pass after watching this video

No.. Niger name came from you know why.. blame the british

Nigeria wins

Niger is pronounced nai-jer not nee-jer.

All of the names that has been changed by your Europeans is disgraceful the names should be changed back to the original name or put in a prefix by the blacks the African people of what their name should be that represent the origins of the mass of the people I do not understand why the names that the colonizer has gave are still in place

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People in Nigeria calls themselves Nigerian
People in Niger calls themselves...




Nigerian...

oh no... i can't hold it to say it aahhhhhhh

I like how he pronounces Niger

Omg I’m out here calling it how it’s said in the us 😭😭

In an essay in the Times in 1897, Flora Shaw, Lady Lugard, suggested the name "Nigeria" as a replacement for the current cumbersome name, "Royal Niger Company Territories."

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Northern Americans need to grow up and stop being so sensitive to a literally whole countries

well, these are the racist countries
n word name, racist origin, and some of the most racist countries in the world

Imagine someone uploads a video About Nigeria / niger but autocorrect joins the chat and it becomes the N word

Fun fact in Nigeria the river is called ( Nine jer ) not ( Nee jer )

The forbidden country name

I see some stupid comment here . okay, let me know you that Niger is not a niger in America or something like that. by the way nigro in latin mean black is not a slave. So Niger is black too not connotation, so why dont you learn something new instead of your granny racist lessons. Thank you.

Okay interesting topic. well Niger and nigeria should be one country because they lot of common and share history apart colonial division. Example Somalia is an african country name is its own name ethnic the major two revir is somali names. why not other countries name its own identity instead of given name. it just suggestion we all great. thank you.

It was just a racist name they made up when the were transferring slaves. Change the name

Austria and Australia

We should rename “Niger” as “North Nigeria”. I think it’s a better name.

Leave a comment lol you can't even say that country without comment being deleted. Fuck you tube fascists

French guinua?

It bad word ni###

Poorly done. No real research conducted. Lazy. As lazy as the country names themselves.

We need a great reset with these names

If I found him ima ⚠️👊

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You said the n word!