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Annual rainfall totals vary from 2,400 millimetres or 94 inches at Port Harcourt to as much as 4,870 millimetres or 192 inches at Forcados, a coastal town in the Niger Delta, 4,200 millimetres or 165 inches at Bonny, and 3,070 millimetres or 121 inches in Calabar, the rainiest city with over one million people in Nigeria. As one moves northward ...
The coastline paradox states that a coastline does not have a well-defined length. Measurements of the length of a coastline behave like a fractal, being different at different scale intervals (distance between points on the coastline at which measurements are taken). The smaller the scale interval (meaning the more detailed the measurement ...
Nigeria is the most populous country in Africa and the eighth most populous country in the world with a population of over 140 million. The country is listed among the "Next Eleven" economies, and is one of the fastest growing in the world with the International Monetary Fund projecting growth of 9% in 2008 and 8.3% in 2009. [3] [4] [5] [6]
A landlocked country is a country that does not have any territory connected to an ocean or whose coastlines lie solely on endorheic basins.Currently, there are 44 landlocked countries, two of them doubly landlocked (Liechtenstein and Uzbekistan), and three landlocked de facto states in the world.
There are parts of Nigeria closer to the water and provide for areas that have Islands. Places like Lagos, Rivers and other lower ends of the Niger-Delta with close access to rivers and oceans, allow for the natural or artificial formation of Islands. Some of the islands in Nigeria are included below: Abagbo Island; Andoni Island; Banana Island ...
All world maps are based on one of several map projections, or methods of representing a globe on a plane. All projections distort geographic features, distances, and directions in some way. The various map projections that have been developed provide different ways of balancing accuracy and the unavoidable distortion inherent in making world maps.
FT Nigeria 1-2 Ivory Coast. 22:19, Mike Jones. Ivory Coast have become the fifth nation to win this tournament for a third time behind Egypt, Cameroon and Ghana.
Nigeria is often referred to as the Giant of Africa by its citizens due to its large population and formerly large economy, [21] and is considered to be an emerging market by the World Bank. Nigeria is a founding member of the African Union and a member of many international organizations, including the United Nations, the Commonwealth of ...