Tanout is a department of the Zinder Region in Niger.

[2] Its administrative seat is the city of Tanout.

As of 2012, the department had a total population of 429,150 people.

[3][4] 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.

[5] Tanout Department is divided into six municipalities, listed with population as of 2012 census:[1]