The neighbouring communes are Azagor to the north and Birni Lallé to the east, south and west.

The formerly more diverse flora on the sandy soils of Dakoro is - due to recurring droughts and human settlement - essentially only characterised by acacias and balanites.

These are Albadji, Camp de Gardes, Camp Gendarmerie, Centre de Réinsertion, Déram Balaka, Groupement FNIS, Hachimou Chipkaou, Kourmi, Mago Gari, Maguéma, Prison Civile, Quartier Administratif, Quartier Tsouna, Rouboukawa, Sabon Gari Mahamane, Takalmabua and Zangon Madougou.

[2] In 1947, the then French colonial administration set up a school specifically for the nomadic population in the village of Maï Lafia, which belongs to Dakoro.

The French overseas research institute Office de la Recherche Scientifique et Technique Outre-Mer (ORSTOM) operated a geomagnetic station in Dakoro, which was part of a network of several hundred ORSTOM stations in West Africa at which geomagnetic measurements were carried out in the 1950s.

The cultivation of millet, sorghum and black-eyed peas is severely jeopardised by the lack of rainfall.