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Nigeria: Nigeria Geography Profile 2012

2012/03/21

Nigeria Geography Profile 2012

Location:

Western Africa, bordering the Gulf of Guinea, between Benin and Cameroon

Geographic coordinates:

10 00 N, 8 00 E

Map references:

Africa

Area

Total:

923,768 sq km

Comparison to the world:

Land:

910,768 sq km

Water:

13,000 sq km

Area comparative:

slightly more than twice the size of California

Land boundaries Total:

4,047 km

Land boundaries Note:

Border countries

Countries:

Benin 773 km, Cameroon 1,690 km, Chad 87 km, Niger 1,497 km

Coastline

Value:

853 km

Note:

Maritime claims

Territorial sea:

12 nm

Exclusive economic zone:

200 nm

Climate:

varies; equatorial in south, tropical in center, arid in north

Terrain:

southern lowlands merge into central hills and plateaus; mountains in southeast, plains in north

Elevation extremes

Lowest point:

Atlantic Ocean 0 m

Highest point:

Chappal Waddi 2,419 m

Natural resources:

natural gas, petroleum, tin, iron ore, coal, limestone, niobium, lead, zinc, arable land

Land use

Kind:

arable land

Percentage:

33,02%

Year:

2005

Kind:

permanent crops

Percentage:

3,14%

Kind:

other

Percentage:

63,84%

Irrigated land

Value:

2,820 sq km

Year:

2003

Total renewable water resources

Value:

286.2 cu km

Year:

2003

Freshwater withdrawal (domestic/industrial/agricultural)

Total:

8.01 cu km/yr (21%/10%/69%)

Per capital:

61 cu m/yr (2000)

Natural hazards:

periodic droughts; flooding

Environment - current issues:

soil degradation; rapid deforestation; urban air and water pollution; desertification; oil pollution - water, air, and soil; has suffered serious damage from oil spills; loss of arable land; rapid urbanization

Environment - international agreements

Party to:

Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Endangered Species, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Marine Dumping, Marine Life Conservation, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Wetlands

Signed but not ratified:

none of the selected agreements

Geography note:

the Niger enters the country in the northwest and flows southward through tropical rain forests and swamps to its delta in the Gulf of Guinea

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