Niger (disambiguation)
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The Latin word niger means the colour black. "Niger" can also refer to:
- Niger, a country in West Africa
- Niger River, in West Africa
- Niger State, in Nigeria
- Guizotia abyssinica, an herb also called "niger pea"
- HMS Niger, the name of several British warships
- Niger Innis, a conservative American activist
- Peter Georg Niger, a Dominican order theologian, preacher and controversialist
- Shmuel Niger, a Yiddishist
- A common misspelling of nigger, an offensive term derived from niger sometimes used to refer to a black person in the western world
- Aspergillus niger, a filamentous fungus used in industry