| Séguédine Seguedine |
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Séguédine
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| Coordinates: | |
| Country | Niger |
| Region | Agadez Region |
| Department | Bilma Department |
| Commune | Séguédine |
| Elevation | 459 m (1,509 ft) |
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Séguédine is a town in central eastern Niger, lying at the far northern tip of the Kaouar escarpment, an inhabited oasis in the midst of the Sahara desert. It is a Commune of Bilma Department, Agadez Region.
While isolated in modern Niger, it once lay on the important central soudan route of the Trans-Saharan trade which linked coastal Libya and the Fezzan to the Kanem-Bornu Empire near Lake Chad. Its population is made up primarily of traditionally sedentary Kanuri people, as well as semi-nomadic Tuareg and Tubu people.