Dosso is an administrative Region

Regions of Niger

||Niger is divided into 7 Regions . Each department's capital is the same as its name.-Current regions:*Agadez Region*Diffa Region*Dosso Region*Maradi Region*Tahoua Region*Tillabéri Region*Zinder Region...

 of the Republic of Niger

Niger

Niger , officially named the Republic of Niger, is a landlocked country in Western Africa, named after the Niger River. It borders Nigeria and Benin to the south, Burkina Faso and Mali to the west, Algeria and Libya to the north and Chad to the east...

; see its eponymous capital Dosso

Dosso, Niger

Dosso is a town in the south-west corner of Niger. It lies 130–140 km south-east of the capital 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...

 for history.

The region has an area of 31,002 km². Its population was 693,207 in the census

Census

A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring and recording information about the members of a given population. It is a regularly occurring and official count of a particular population. The term is used mostly in connection with national population and housing censuses; other common...

 of 1977; by 1988 it had increased to 1,018,895, and by 2001 it had reached 1,479,095.

Divisions and borders

Dosso is divided into 5 Departments

Departments of Niger

||The Regions of Niger are subdivided into 63 Departments . Before the devolution program on 1999-2005, these Departments were styled arrondissements. Confusingly, the next level up had, before 2002-2005 been styled Departments. Prior to a revision in 2011, there had been 36 Departments. A draft...

:

• Boboye Department
  Boboye Department
  Boboye is a department of the Dosso Region in Niger. Its capital lies at the city of Boboye....
  
  
• Dogondoutchi Department
  Dogondoutchi Department
  Dogondoutchi is a department of the Dosso Region in Niger. Its capital lies at the city of Dogondoutchi....
  
  
• Dosso Department
  Dosso Department
  Dosso is a department of the Dosso Region in Niger. Its capital lies at the city of Dosso....
  
  
• Gaya Department
  Gaya Department
  Gaya is a department of the Dosso Region in Niger. Its capital lies at the city of Gaya....
  
  
• Loga Department
  Loga Department
  Loga is a department of the Dosso Region in Niger. Its capital lies at the city of Loga....
  
  

Dosso has the following foreign borders:

• Sokoto State, Nigeria
  Sokoto State
  Sokoto State is located in the extreme northwest of Nigeria, near to the confluence of the Sokoto River and the Rima River. As of 2005 it has an estimated population of more than 4.2 million...
  
   - east
• Kebbi State, Nigeria
  Kebbi State
  Kebbi State is a state in north-western Nigeria with its capital at Birnin Kebbi. The state was formed from part of Sokoto State in 1991. Kebbi State is bordered by Sokoto State, Niger State, Dosso Region in the Republic of Niger and the nation of Benin. It has a total area of...
  
   - southeast
• Alibori Department, Benin
  Alibori Department
  Alibori is the largest and northernmost départements of Benin, with an area of 25,683 km² and a population of 355,950 . The department is subdivided into 6 communes, each centered at one of the principal towns: Banikoara, Gogounou, Kandi, Karimama, Malanville, and Ségbana. The department borders...
  
   - south

Domestically, it borders the following departments:

• Tahoua Region - northeast
• Tillabéri Region - west