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Its coast lies on the Gulf of Guinea in the south and it borders Lake Chad to the northeast. Notable geographical features in Nigeria include the Adamawa Plateau, Mambilla Plateau, Jos Plateau, Obudu Plateau, the Niger River, Benue River, and Niger Delta. Nigeria is in the tropics, where the climate is
The Cook Islands and Niue have diplomatic relations with 49 and 18 UN members respectively. [76] [77] [78] They have full treaty-making capacity in the UN, [79] and are members of some UN specialized agencies. Niue → See Niue listing Palau – Republic of Palau UN member state None Under Compact of Free Association with the United States.
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 ...
Below are separate lists of countries and dependencies with their land boundaries, and lists of which countries and dependencies border oceans and major seas.The first short section describes the borders or edges of continents and oceans/major seas.
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By contrast, the Canary Islands and the Madeira islands (the latter of which also include the Desertas Islands and the Savage Islands) off the Atlantic coast of Morocco are much closer to, and usually grouped with, Africa; the Canary Islands are only 100 km (62 mi) from the African mainland at their closest point but 945 km (587 mi) from the ...
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.
Ivory Coast Liberia Libya Madeira Mauritania Morocco Namibia Nigeria Republic of the Congo Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha (UK) São Tomé and Príncipe Senegal Sierra Leone South Africa Togo Tunisia Western Sahara (claimed by Morocco)