Tanout
Department
Tanout Department location in the region
Country	Niger
Region	Zinder Region
Population (2011)^[1]
• Total	475,125
Time zone	UTC+1 (GMT 1)

Tanout is a department of the Zinder Region in Niger.^[2] Its administrative seat is the city of Tanout. As of 2011, the department had a total population of 475,125 people.^[3]

On 15 April 2010, the Council of Ministers announced that Amadou Seybou Dioffo, a retired Captain from the Niger Armed Forces, had been appointed prefect of the department.^[4]

Municipalities

Tanout Department is divided into six municipalities, listed with population as of 2011 census:^[1]

Gangara 120,585
Falanko 4,561
Ollelewa 105,167
Tanout 134,074
Tarka 89,533
Tenhia 21,205

Notes

^ ^a ^b "Annuaire Statistique du Niger 2006 - 2010: Population" (PDF). Institut National de la Statistique du Niger. 2011. pp. 61–70, page 69.
^ Arrondissement de Tânout (Approved) at GEOnet Names Server, United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
^ "Annuaires_Statistiques" (PDF). Institut National de la Statistique. Retrieved 2 May 2013.
^ "Conseil des ministres du Niger du 15 avril 2010". Temoust. 16 April 2010. Archived from the original on 19 April 2010.

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