Nigeria is often referred to as the Giant of Africa owing to its large population andĮconomy and is considered to be an emerging market by the World Bank. Nigeria's economy is the largest in Africa, theĢ5th-largest in the world by nominal GDP, and 25th-largest by PPP. Nigeria is a regional power in Africa, a middle power in international affairs, and is an emerging global power. Muslims, who live mostly in the north, and Christians, who live mostly in the south indigenous religions, such as those native to the Igbo and Yoruba Nigeria is divided roughly in half between Of religion and it is home to some of the world's largest Muslim and Christian populations, simultaneously. The official language is English, chosen to facilitate linguistic unity at the national level. The three largest ethnic groups are the Hausa in the north, Yoruba in the west, and Igbo in the east, together comprising over 60% of the Nigeria is a multinational state inhabited by more than 250 ethnic groups speaking 500 distinct languages, all identifying with a wide variety ofĬultures. It experienced a civil war from 1967 to 1970, followed by a succession of democratically elected civilian governments and militaryĭictatorships, until achieving a stable democracy in the 1999 presidential election the 2015 election was the first time an incumbent president had lost Nigeria became a formally independentįederation on October 1, 1960. The British set upĪdministrative and legal structures while practising indirect rule through traditional chiefdoms in the Nigeria region. Territorial shape with the merging of the Southern Nigeria Protectorate and Northern Nigeria Protectorate in 1914 by Lord Lugard. The modern state originated with British colonialization in the 19th century, taking its present Marking the first internal unification in the country. Nigeria has been home to several indigenous pre-colonial states and kingdoms since the second millennium BC, with the Nok civilization in the 15th century BC

One of the largest metropolitan areas in the world and the second-largest in Africa. Nigeria is a federal republic comprising 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory, where the capital, Abuja, is located. Nigeria borders Niger in the north, Chad in the northeast, Cameroon in the east, and Benin in the west. (356,669 sq mi), with a population of over 211 million. It covers an area of 923,769 square kilometres Geographically situated between the Sahel to the north and the Gulf of Guinea to the south in the Atlantic Ocean. It is the most populous country in Africa. 'Nigeria, officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a country in West Africa.

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