African river or country

The answer

NIGER

5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the NIGER answer page.

Used 6 times across 4 distinct years; most recently in 2023; first recorded in 2010. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for NIGER

Every other clue in this collection answered by NIGER, most used first.

• Neighbor of Chad - used 24 times, most recently in 2025
• African river. - used 21 times, most recently in 2012
• Chad neighbor - used 20 times, most recently in 2026
• Mali neighbor - used 17 times, most recently in 2023
• African nation - used 14 times, most recently in 2022
• Africa's third-longest river - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
• Niamey's nation - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
• African republic - used 8 times, most recently in 2004
• Neighbor of Mali - used 8 times, most recently in 2023
• Niamey is its capital - used 7 times, most recently in 2015
• River of Africa - used 7 times, most recently in 2005
• River to the Gulf of Guinea - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
• Algeria neighbor - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• Its capital is Niamey - used 6 times, most recently in 2005
• West African river - used 6 times, most recently in 2025

Related clues

Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.

• African antelope - ELAND, used 189 times
• Grenoble's river - ISERE, used 143 times
• France's longest river - LOIRE, used 114 times
• African language group - BANTU, used 78 times
• Rome's river - TIBER, used 60 times
• River mouth formation - DELTA, used 58 times

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