Gouré) is a Commune and town in southeastern Niger, Zinder Region, Goure Department, of which it is the seat.

These hills also mark the northeastern boundary of Hausa settlement in Niger, with the desert and hills to the north sparsely populated by seasonal nomadic encampments, and the area to the east populated by a majority of settled Kanouri ethnic groups and Toubou pastoralists.

The area around Goure is particularly threatened by desertification, and was in 2005 designated at the very northeastern edge of Nigerien farmland able to support its population.

[2] The area has thus become a centre for international anti-desertification efforts, where experiments by local and foreign organisations promote the use of windbreaks and scrub grids to fix soil and stop the influx of dunes.

[3] The agricultural region around Goure has been devastated at several points since independence, with major droughts in the early 1970s, the mid-1980s, and the locust-induced crop loss famine in 1977 and 2005.