Nigeria Map

CAPITAL: Abuja (formerly Lagos)

SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT: Military Dictatorship

AREA: 923,768 Square Kilometers (356,669 Square Miles)

ESTIMATED POPULATION: 103,000,000

LOCATION & GEOGRAPHY: Nigeria is located in West Africa. Benin to the west, Niger to the north, Chad to the northeast, Cameroon to the east and the Gulf of Guinea to the south.

PEOPLE: Nigeria has many groups of people in the population. The Hausa, Fulani, Yoruba and Ibos people for most of the population.

LANGUAGES: The official language is English, which is spoken by only a small amount of the population. The national languages most widely used are Hausa, Yoruba and Ibo.