GEOGRAPHY INFORMATION
GEOGRAPHY INFORMATION
1. Nigeria ’s
Location : West Africa bordening on the Gulf of Guinea
Between Benin and Cameroon
2. Overall Area : (i) Total : 923,760sq.km.
(ii) Land Area : 910,768sq.km.
(iii)
Water : 13,000sq.km.
(iv) Coastline: 853km.
3. Area Comparative: Slightly more than twice the size
of California
United
State of America
4. Land Boundaries: 4,047km all together.
5. Border Countries: On the west by the Republic
of Benin 773km, and Cameroon
1,690km,
North by Niger 1,497km and Chad Republic
Sound by the Atlantic
ocean .
6. Maritime Claims: (i)
Continental shelf: 200m depth.
(ii)
Executive Economic zone: 200NM
(iii) Territory Sea
7. Climate: Equatorial in south, tropical
in centre and in North.
8. Terrain : South Lowland merges into
central Hills and Plateau,
Mountains in South-East, Plains in North.
- Natural Resources: Petroleum, Tin, Columbite, Iron ore, Coal, Limestone, Lead,
Zinc,
Natural gas, Hydro-power, and Arable land.
44%, Forest and woodland 12%, Others 8%, Irrigated land,
9570sq.km. (1993 est).
- Environmental-International Agreement: Port to Biodiversity, Climate change,
Desertification, Endeared
species, Hazardous Waste, Law of
The Sea,
Marine Dumping, Marine Life, Conservation,
Nuclear
Test Ban, Ozone Layer Protection, Wetland.
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