Nigeria
Nigeria is a large country in equatorial West Africa. Often regarded as the "Giant of Africa", Nigeria is the most populous country in Africa, with about 216 million people in 2022.Tap on the map to travel |
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Lagos City
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Lagos is the most populous city in Nigeria, spreading out across two main islands and onto the mainland.
Abuja
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Abuja is the capital of Nigeria. Because most Nigerian government agencies are now headquartered in Abuja and most other countries' embassies have been relocated from Lagos to Abuja, it is a surprisingly expensive city.
Kano
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Kano is a city in North West Nigeria and the capital of Kano State.
Destinations
South West Nigeria
South West Nigeria is a region of Nigeria. It is mostly a Yoruba-speaking area, although there are different dialects even within the same state.North Central Nigeria
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North Central Nigeria is a region of Nigeria. It is the larger chunk of the Nigerian Middle Belt…
South South Nigeria
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South South Nigeria is a region of Nigeria composed of the following states: Akwa Ibom, Bayelsa, Cross River, Delta, Edo, and Rivers.
North West Nigeria
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The North West is a region of Nigeria. It is native homeland of Hausa people with the second largest tribe being Fulani.
North East Nigeria
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North East Nigeria is a region of Nigeria that occupies slightly less than one-third of Nigeria's total area and had a projected population for 2011 of 23.6 million, or 13.5% of the country's population.
South East Nigeria
South East Nigeria is a region of Nigeria. It is composed of the following states: Abia, Anambra, Ebonyi, Enugu, and Imo.Nigeria
- Type: Country with 152,000,000 residents
- Description: sovereign state in West Africa
- Languages: English, Hausa, Yoruba, Igbo and Fulah
- Neighbors: Benin, Cameroon, Chad, Niger and São Tomé and Príncipe
- Categories: sovereign state, federal republic and locality
- Location: West Africa, Africa
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Latitude of centre
9.5° or 9° 30' northLongitude of centre
8.04° or 8° 2' 24" eastPopulation
152,000,000Area
923,768 km² (356,669 miles²)Elevation
779 metres (2,556 feet)Capital
AbujaCurrency
Naira (NGN)Phone code
.ngInternet domain
234OpenStreetMap ID
node 424316663OpenStreetMap Feature
place=countryGeoNames ID
2328926Wikidata ID
Q1033Nigeria Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Abkhazian: Nijirya
- Abkhazian: Афедеративтә Республика Нигериа
- Abkhazian: Нигериа
- Achinese: Nigeria
- Adyghe: Нигерие
- Afar: Nigeriya
- Afrikaans: Nigerië
- Akan: Alata
- Akan: Naegyeria
- Albanian: Nigeri
- Albanian: Nigeria
- Amharic: Nigeria
- Amharic: ናይጄሪያ
- Amis: Nigeria
- Angika: नाईजीरिया
- Arabic: Nigeria
- Arabic: جمهورية نيجيريا الاتحادية
- Arabic: نيجيريا
- Aragonese: Nicheria
- Armenian: Նիգերիա
- Armenian: Նիճերիա
- Arpitan: Nig·èria
- Assamese: নাইজেৰিয়া
- Asturian: Nixeria
- Atayal: Nigeria
- Avaric: Nigeria
- Aymara: Niqirya
- Azerbaijani: Nigeriya
- Balinese: Nigeria
- Bambara: Nijeria
- Bambara: Nizeriya
- Banjar: Nigeria
- Bashkir: Нигерия
- Basque: Nigeria
- Batak Toba: Nigeria
- Bavarian: Nigeria
- Belarusian: Нігерыя
- Belarusian: Ніґерыя
- Bengali: নাইজেরিয়া
- Bhojpuri: नाइजीरिया
- Bishnupriya: নাইজেরিয়া
- Bislama: Naejiria
- Bosnian: Nigerija
- Breton: Nigeria
- Bulgarian: Нигерия
- Burmese: နိုင်ဂျီးရီးယား
- Burmese: နိုင်ဂျီးရီးယားနိုင်ငံ
- Catalan: Nigèria
- Catalan: República Federal de Nigèria
- Cebuano: Nigyeriya
- Cebuano: Niherya
- Central Bikol: Nigerya
- Central Kurdish: نێجیریا
- Chavacano: Nigeria
- Chechen: Нигери
- Cherokee: ᏂᏥᎵᏯ
- Chinese: Nigeria
- Chinese: Nírìlìyà
- Chinese: 奈及利亞
- Chinese: 尼日利亚 / 奈及利亞
- Chinese: 尼日利亚
- Chinese: 尼日利亞
- Chuvash: Нигери
- Cornish: Nijeri
- Corsican: Nigeria
- Crimean Tatar: Nigeriya
- Croatian: Nigerija
- Czech: Nigérie
- Dagbani: NGA
- Dagbani: Nigeria
- Danish: Nigeria
- Dhivehi: ނައިޖީރިއާ
- Dimli (individual language): Nicerya
- Dinka: Naijeria
- Dotyali: नाइजेरिया
- Dutch: NG
- Dutch: NGA
- Dutch: Nigeria
- Dzongkha: ནཱའི་ཇི་རི་ཡ
- Eastern Mari: Нигерий
- Egyptian Arabic: نايجيريا
- English: FRN
- English: Federal Republic of Nigeria
- English: NG
- English: NGA
- English: NGR
- English: Naija
- Erzya: Нигерия
- Esperanto: FRN
- Esperanto: Federacia Respubliko Niĝerio
- Esperanto: NG
- Esperanto: Niĝerio
- Estonian: Nigeeria
- Estonian: Nigeeria Liitvabariik
- Ewe: Naidzeria
- Ewe: Nigeria
- Ewe: Nigeria nutome
- Extremaduran: Nigeria
- Extremaduran: Nigéria
- Farefare: Nigeria
- Faroese: Nigeria
- Fiji Hindi: Nigeria
- Finnish: Nigeria
- Finnish: Nigerian liittotasavalta
- Fon: Awɔnlinto
- Fon: Awɔnlintò
- French: NG
- French: NGA
- French: NGR
- French: Nigeria
- French: Nigéria
- French: RFN
- French: République fédérale du Nigeria
- French: République fédérale du Nigéria
- French: République fédérale nigériane
- French: la République fédérale du Nigéria
- French: ng
- Fulah: Naajeeriya
- Fulah: Nijeriyaa
- Gagauz: Nigeriya
- Galician: Nigeria
- Galician: Nixeria - Nigeria
- Galician: Nixeria
- Gan Chinese: 尼日利亞
- Ganda: Nayijerya
- Ganda: Nigeria
- Georgian: ნიგერია
- German: Nigeria
- German: Nigerien
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: Nigeria
- Greek: Νιγηρία
- Guarani: Niheria
- Guarani: Nihéria
- Guianese Creole French: Nijérya
- Gujarati: Naijilia
- Gujarati: નાઇજીરિયા
- Gujarati: નાઇજેરિયા
- Gujarati: નાઈજેરિયા
- Gun: Naijilia
- Haitian: Nijerya
- Hakka Chinese: Nigeria
- Hausa: Najeriya
- Hausa: Nigeria
- Hausa: Nijeriya
- Hebrew: הרפובליקה הפדרלית של ניגריה
- Hebrew: ניגריה
- Hindi: नाइजीरिया
- Hindi: नाईजीरिया
- Hungarian: Nigéria
- Hungarian: Nigériai Szövetségi Köztársaság
- Icelandic: Nígería
- Ido: Nigeria
- Igbo: Naigeria
- Igbo: Naijiria
- Igbo: Naịjịrịa
- Iloko: Nigeria
- Inari Sami: Nigeria
- Inari Sami: Nigeria littotäsiväldi
- Indonesian: Nigeria
- Ingush: Нигери
- Interlingua: Nigeria
- Interlingue: Nigeria
- Irish: An Nigéir
- Irish: an Nigéir
- Italian: Nigeria
- Italian: Repubblica Federale della Nigeria
- Jamaican Creole English: Naijiiria
- Japanese: ナイジェリア
- Japanese: ナイジェリア連邦共和国
- Javanese: Nigéria
- Kabiyè: Naajeeriya
- Kabyle: Nijirya
- Kalaallisut: Nigeria
- Kalmyk: Нигермудин Ниицәтә Орн
- Kannada: ನೈಜೀರಿಯ
- Kannada: ನೈಜೀರಿಯಾ
- Kanuri: NG
- Kanuri: NGR
- Kanuri: Naija
- Kanuri: Nigeria
- Kara-Kalpak: Nigeriya
- Kashmiri: نایجیرِیا
- Kazakh: Нигерия
- Khmer: នីហ្សេរីយ៉ា
- Kikuyu: Nainjeria
- Kikuyu: Nigeria
- Kinyarwanda: Nijeriya
- Kirghiz: Нигерия
- Kongo: Nizeria
- Korean: 나이제리아
- Korean: 나이지리아
- Kotava: Nigeria
- Kurdish: Nîjerya
- Ladin: Nigeria
- Ladino: Nijeria
- Lao: Nigeria
- Lao: ໄນຈີເຣຍ
- Latgalian: Nigereja
- Latin: Nigeria
- Latvian: Nigērija
- Lezghian: Нигерия
- Ligurian: Nigeria
- Limburgan: Nigeria
- Lingala: Nizeria
- Lingala: Nizerya
- Lingua Franca Nova: Nijeria
- Literary Chinese: 尼日利亞
- Lithuanian: Nigerija
- Livvi: Nigerii
- Lojban: nixerias
- Lombard: Nigeria
- Low German: Nigeria
- Lower Sorbian: Nigerija
- Luba-Katanga: Nijerya
- Luxembourgish: Nigeria
- Macedonian: Нигерија
- Madurese: Nigeria
- Malagasy: Nizeria
- Malagasy: Nizerià
- Malay: NG
- Malay: Nigeria
- Malay: Republik Persekutuan Nigeria
- Malay: نايجيريا
- Malayalam: നൈജീരിയ
- Maltese: Niġerja
- Maltese: Repubblika Federali tan-Niġerja
- Maltese: in-Niġerja
- Manipuri: ꯅꯥꯢꯖꯤꯔꯤꯌꯥ
- Manx: Yn Naigeer
- Maori: Ngāitiria
- Marathi: नायजेरिया
- Mazanderani: نیجریا
- Mazanderani: نیجریه
- Min Dong Chinese: Nigeria
- Min Nan Chinese: Nigeria
- Minangkabau: Nigeria
- Mingrelian: ნიგერია
- Mirandese: Nigéria
- Moksha: Нигэрия
- Mongolian: Нигери
- Mongolian: ꯅꯥꯢꯖꯤꯔꯤꯌꯥ
- Moroccan Arabic: نيجيريا
- Mossi: Nigeria
- Nauru: Nigeria
- Navajo: Naakaii Łizhinii Biʼéénézí Bikéyah
- Nepali: नाइजेरिया
- Newari: नाइजेरिया
- Nigerian Pidgin: Naija
- North Ndebele: Nigeriya
- Northern Frisian: Nigeeria
- Northern Luri: نیجریه
- Northern Sami: Nigeria
- Northern Sami: Nigeria lihttodásseváldi
- Norwegian: Nigeria
- Norwegian Bokmål: Forbundsrepublikken Nigeria
- Norwegian Bokmål: Nigeria
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Nigeria
- Novial: Nigeria
- Occitan (post 1500): Nigèria
- Occitan (post 1500): Republica Federala de Nigèria
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): Nigeria
- Oriya: ନାଇଜେରିଆ
- Oromo: Naayijeeriyaa
- Ossetian: Нигери
- Pali: नैजीरिया
- Pampanga: Nigeria
- Panjabi: ਨਾਈਜੀਰੀਆ
- Papiamento: Nigeria
- Pedi: Nigeria
- Persian: نایجریا
- Persian: نیجریه
- Pfaelzisch: Nigeria
- Piemontese: Nigeria
- Pitcairn-Norfolk: Niijiirya
- Polish: Nigeria
- Portuguese: Nigéria
- Pushto: نايجېريا
- Pushto: نایجیریا
- Pushto: نیجریا
- Quechua: Nigeria
- Quechua: Nihirya
- Quechua: Niqirya
- Rakhine: နိုင်ဂျီးရီးယားနိုင်ငံ
- Romanian: Nigeria
- Romansh: Nigeria
- Rundi: Nijeriya
- Russia Buriat: Нигери
- Russian: Нигерия
- Russian: Федеративная Республика Нигерия
- Rusyn: Ніґерія
- Sakizaya: Nigeria
- Samoan: Nigeria
- Samogitian: Nigerėjė
- Sango: Nizerïa
- Sanskrit: नैजीरिया
- Santali: ᱱᱟᱭᱡᱮᱨᱤᱭᱟ
- Sardinian: Nigèria
- Sardinian: Nigéria
- Saterfriesisch: Nigeria
- Scots: Federal Republic o Nigerie
- Scots: Nigerie
- Scottish Gaelic: Nigèiria
- Scottish Gaelic: Nìgeiria
- Serbian: Nigerija
- Serbian: Нигерија
- Serbo-Croatian: Nigerija
- Shan: မိူင်းၼၢႆႇၵျီးရီးယႃး
- Shona: Naijeriya
- Shona: Nigeria
- Sicilian: Nigeria
- Silesian: Ńigeryjo
- Sindhi: نائيجيريا
- Sinhala: නයිජීරියාව
- Skolt Sami: Nigeria
- Skolt Sami: Nigeria lett-tääʹssväʹldd
- Slovak: Nigéria
- Slovak: Nigérijská federatívna republika
- Slovenian: Nigerija
- Somali: Nayjeeriya
- South Azerbaijani: نیجریه
- Southern Sotho: Nigeria
- Spanish: Nigeria
- Spanish: Republica Federal de Nigeria
- Spanish: República Federal de Nigeria
- Standard Moroccan Tamazight: ⵏⵉⵊⵉⵔⵢⴰ
- Sundanese: Nigeria
- Sundanese: Nigéria
- Swahili: Nigeria
- Swahili: Nijeria
- Swati: INayijeriya
- Swedish: Förbundsrepubliken Nigeria
- Swedish: Nigeria
- Swiss German: Nigeria
- Tagalog: Nigeria
- Tagalog: Nigerya
- Tajik: Jumhurii Federativii Nigeriya
- Tajik: Nigeria
- Tajik: Nigerija
- Tajik: Nigeriya
- Tajik: Çumhuriji Federativiji Nigerija
- Tajik: Нигерия
- Tajik: Ниҷерия
- Tajik: Ҷумҳурии Федеративии Нигерия
- Talysh: Nigerijə
- Tamil: நைஜீரியா
- Taroko: Nigeria
- Tatar: Нигерия
- Telugu: నైజీరియా
- Tetum: Nijéria
- Thai: ประเทศไนจีเรีย
- Thai: ไนจีเรีย
- Tibetan: ནཱའི་ཇི་རི་ཡ།
- Tibetan: ནི་ཇི་རི་ཡ།
- Tigrinya: ናይጂሪያ
- Tigrinya: ናይጄሪያ
- Tok Pisin: Naijiria
- Tonga (Tonga Islands): Naisilia
- Tonga (Tonga Islands): Naisīlia
- Tosk Albanian: Nigeria
- Tsonga: Nayjeriya
- Tsonga: Nigeria
- Tumbuka: Naija
- Tumbuka: Nigeria
- Tunisian Arabic: نيجيريا
- Turkish: Nijerya
- Turkmen: Nigeriýa
- Twi: Nigeria
- Tyap: Naija
- Tyap: Naijeriya
- Tyap: Najeriya
- Tyap: Ri̱pobi̱lik Mundundung Naijeriya
- Udmurt: Нигерия
- Uighur: نىگېرىيە
- Ukrainian: Нігерія
- Ukrainian: Ніґерія
- Ukrainian: Федеративна Республіка Нігерія
- Ukrainian: Федеративна Республіка Нігерії
- Upper Sorbian: Nigerija
- Urdu: نائجیریا
- Urdu: نائیجیریا
- Uzbek: Nigeriya
- Venetian: Nizèria
- Veps: Nigerii
- Vietnamese: Ni-giê-ri-a (Nigeria)
- Vietnamese: Ni-giê-ri-a
- Vietnamese: Nigeria
- Vlaams: Nigeria
- Vlax Romani: Nigeria
- Volapük: Nigeriyän
- Võro: Nigeeriä
- Walloon: Nidjeria
- Waray (Philippines): Nigerya
- Welsh: Nigeria
- Western Armenian: Նիճերիա
- Western Frisian: Nigearia
- Western Frisian: Nigeria
- Western Mari: Нигери
- Western Panjabi: نائیجیریا
- Wolof: Niseeria
- Wolof: Niseriya
- Wu Chinese: 尼日利亚
- Xhosa: INigeria
- Yakut: Нигерия
- Yiddish: ניגעריע
- Yoruba: NG
- Yoruba: Naijiriya
- Yoruba: Nigeria
- Yoruba: Nàìjá
- Yoruba: Nàìjíríà
- Yoruba: Orílẹ̀-èdè Olómìniira Aláàpapọ̀ Nàìjíríà
- Yoruba: Orílẹ́ède Nàìjíríà
- Yue Chinese: 尼日利亞
- Zeeuws: Niheria
- Zhuang: Nigeria
- Zhuang: Nizywlihya
- Zulu: INigeria
- Zulu: i-Nigeria
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