Niger Delta
The Niger Delta is the delta of the Niger River sitting directly on the Gulf of Guinea on the Atlantic Ocean in Nigeria. It is located within nine coastal southern Nigerian states, which include: all six states from the South South geopolitical zone, one state from South West geopolitical zone and two states from South East geopolitical zone.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Delta
- Description: delta of the Niger River in Nigeria and the surrounding region
- Also known as: “delta of the Niger River” and “Delta of the River Niger”
Niger Delta
- Categories: river delta and landform
- Location: Nigeria, West Africa, Africa
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yoruba—“Niger Delta” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “دلتا النيجر”
- Asturian: “delta del Níxer”
- Azerbaijani: “Niger deltası”
- Basque: “Nigerren delta”
- Belarusian: “Дэльта Нігера”
- Catalan: “delta del Níger”
- Catalan: “Delta del Níger”
- Cebuano: “Niger Delta”
- Central Kanuri: “Niger Delta”
- Chinese: “尼日爾河三角洲”
- Czech: “Delta Nigeru”
- Dutch: “Niger Delta”
- Dutch: “Niger-delta”
- Dutch: “Nigerdelta”
- Esperanto: “Niĝera Delto”
- Finnish: “Nigerjoen suisto”
- French: “delta du Niger”
- French: “Delta du Niger”
- German: “Niger-Delta”
- German: “Nigerdelta”
- Greek: “Δέλτα του Νίγηρα”
- Hausa: “Neja Delta”
- Hausa: “Niger Delta”
- Hebrew: “הניז’ר דלתה”
- Icelandic: “Nígerósar”
- Igbo: “Mba Mmiri”
- Igbo: “Niger Delta”
- Indonesian: “Delta Niger”
- Italian: “Delta del Niger”
- Japanese: “ニジェール・デルタ”
- Japanese: “ニジェールデルタ”
- Korean: “나이저 델타”
- Korean: “나이저강 삼각주”
- Lithuanian: “Nigerio delta”
- Northern Frisian: “Niigerdelta”
- Obolo: “Ebon Okwaan̄ Naija”
- Persian: “دلتای نیجر”
- Polish: “Delta Nigru”
- Portuguese: “Delta do Níger”
- Portuguese: “Oil Rivers”
- Romanian: “Delta Nigerului”
- Russian: “Дельта Нигера”
- Spanish: “Delta del Niger”
- Spanish: “Delta del Níger”
- Thai: “ดินดอนสามเหลี่ยมปากแม่น้ำไนเจอร์”
- Thai: “วิวัฒนาการดินดอนสามเหลี่ยมปากแม่น้ำไนเจอร์”
- Thai: “สามเหลี่ยมปากแม่น้ำไนเจอร์”
- Tyap: “Da̱li̱ta Nija”
- Ukrainian: “Дельта Нігеру”
- Welsh: “Delta Niger”
- Wu Chinese: “尼日尔河三角洲”
- Yoruba: “Niger Delta”
- “Niger Delta”
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