Tanout Department

Tanout is a department of the Zinder Region in Niger. Its administrative seat is the city of Tanout. As of 2012, the department had a total population of 429,150 people.

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.

Municipalities
Tanout Department is divided into six municipalities, listed with population as of 2012 census:
 * Gangara 112,967
 * Falanko 13,993
 * Ollelewa 116,895
 * Tanout 154,238
 * Tenhia 31,057