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Nigeria

Nigeria is a large country in equatorial . Often regarded as the "Giant of ", Nigeria is the most populous country in Africa, with about 216 million people in 2022.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Lagos City and Abuja.

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Lagos is the most populous city in Nigeria, spreading out across two main islands and onto the mainland. It is the country's financial capital, and is famous throughout Africa for its music scene.

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is the capital of Nigeria. Because most Nigerian government agencies are now headquartered in and most other countries' embassies have been relocated from Lagos to , it is a surprisingly expensive city.

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is the capital of . It has a population of around 3.6 million, giving it a busy atmosphere. It is an ancient trading city inhabited for well over a thousand years.

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as South West Nigeria and North Central Nigeria.

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is a region of Nigeria. It is mostly a Yoruba-speaking area, although there are different dialects even within the same state.

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is a region of Nigeria. It is the larger chunk of the Nigerian Middle Belt, and is composed of the following states: , , , , , , and the .

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is a region of Nigeria comprising the following states: , , , , , and .

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The North West is a region of Nigeria. It is native homeland of Hausa people with the second largest tribe being Fulani. It is composed of the following states: , , , , , , and .

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is a region of Nigeria that occupies slightly less than one-third of Nigeria's total area and had a projected population for 2011 of 29.6 million, or 13.5% of the country's population.

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is a region of Nigeria. It is composed of the following states: Abia, Anambra, Ebonyi, Enugu, and Imo.

Nigeria

Latitude of center
9.5° or 9° 30′ north
Longitude of center
8.04° or 8° 2′ 24″ east
Population
152,000,000
Area
923,768 km² (356,669 miles²)
Elevation
779 metres (2,556 feet)
Capital
Currency
Naira (NGN)
Phone code
.ng
Internet domain
234
Open­Street­Map ID
node 424316663
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­country
Geo­Names ID
2328926
Wiki­data ID
Q1033
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In Other Languages

From Abkhazian to Zulu—“Nigeria” goes by many names.
  • Abkhazian: “Афедеративтә Республика Нигериа”
  • Abkhazian: “Нигериа”
  • Achinese: “Nigeria”
  • Adyghe: “Нигерие”
  • Afrikaans: “Nigerië”
  • Akan: “Naegyeria”
  • Albanian: “Nigeri”
  • Albanian: “Nigeria”
  • Amharic: “ናይጄሪያ”
  • Amis: “Nigeria”
  • Angika: “नाईजीरिया”
  • Arabic: “جمهورية نيجيريا الاتحادية”
  • Arabic: “نيجيريا”
  • Aragonese: “Nicheria”
  • Armenian: “Նիգերիա”
  • Arpitan: “Nig·èria”
  • Assamese: “নাইজেৰিয়া”
  • Asturian: “Nixeria”
  • Atayal: “Nigeria”
  • Awadhi: “नाइजेरिया”
  • Aymara: “Niqirya”
  • Azerbaijani: “Nigeriya”
  • Balinese: “Nigeria”
  • Bambara: “Nijeria”
  • Bambara: “Nizeriya”
  • Banjar: “Nigeria”
  • Bashkir: “Нигерия”
  • Basque: “Nigeria”
  • Batak Mandailing: “Nigeria”
  • Batak Toba: “Nigeria”
  • Bavarian: “Nigeria”
  • Belarusian: “Нігерыя”
  • Belarusian: “Ніґерыя”
  • Bengali: “নাইজেরিয়া”
  • Betawi: “Nigéria”
  • Bhojpuri: “नाइजीरिया”
  • Bishnupriya: “নাইজেরিয়া”
  • Bislama: “Naejiria”
  • Bosnian: “Nigerija”
  • Breton: “Nigeria”
  • Bulgarian: “Нигерия”
  • Burmese: “နိုင်ဂျီးရီးယား”
  • Burmese: “နိုင်ဂျီးရီးယားနိုင်ငံ”
  • Catalan: “Nigèria”
  • Catalan: “República Federal de Nigèria”
  • Cebuano: “Nigyeriya”
  • Cebuano: “Niherya”
  • Central Bikol: “Nigerya”
  • Central Kanuri: “Nigeria”
  • Central Kurdish: “نێجیریا”
  • Chavacano: “Nigeria”
  • Chechen: “Нигери”
  • Cherokee: “ᏂᏥᎵᏯ”
  • Chinese: “Nigeria”
  • Chinese: “Nírìlìyà”
  • Chinese: “奈及利亞”
  • Chinese: “尼日利亚 / 奈及利亞”
  • Chinese: “尼日利亚”
  • Chinese: “尼日利亚联邦共和国”
  • Chinese: “尼日利亞”
  • Chuvash: “Нигери”
  • Cornish: “Nijeri”
  • Corsican: “Nigeria”
  • Corsican: “Nighjeria”
  • Corsican: “Republica Federale di a Nigeria”
  • Corsican: “Republica Federale di a Nighjeria”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Nigeriya”
  • Croatian: “Nigerija”
  • Czech: “Nigérie”
  • Dagbani: “NGA”
  • Dagbani: “Nigeria”
  • Danish: “Nigeria”
  • Dhivehi: “ނައިޖީރިއާ”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Nicerya”
  • Dinka: “Naijeria”
  • Dotyali: “नाइजेरिया”
  • Dutch: “Federale Republiek Nigeria”
  • Dutch: “NG”
  • Dutch: “NGA”
  • Dutch: “Nigeria”
  • Dzongkha: “ནཱའི་ཇི་རི་ཡ”
  • Eastern Mari: “Нигерий”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “نايجيريا”
  • Erzya: “Нигерия”
  • Esperanto: “Federacia Respubliko Niĝerio”
  • Esperanto: “FRN”
  • Esperanto: “NG”
  • Esperanto: “Niĝerio”
  • Estonian: “Nigeeria Liitvabariik”
  • Estonian: “Nigeeria”
  • Ewe: “Naidzeria”
  • Ewe: “Nigeria nutome”
  • Extremaduran: “Nigeria”
  • Extremaduran: “Nigéria”
  • Fanti: “Nigeria”
  • Farefare: “Nigeria”
  • Faroese: “Nigeria”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Nigeria”
  • Finnish: “Nigeria”
  • Finnish: “Nigerian liittotasavalta”
  • Fon: “Awɔnlinto”
  • Fon: “Awɔnlintò”
  • French: “la République fédérale du Nigéria”
  • French: “ng”
  • French: “NG”
  • French: “NGA”
  • French: “NGR”
  • French: “Nigeria”
  • French: “Nigéria”
  • French: “République fédérale du Nigeria”
  • French: “République fédérale du Nigéria”
  • French: “République fédérale nigériane”
  • French: “RFN”
  • Fulah: “Naajeeriya”
  • Fulah: “Nijeriyaa”
  • Ga: “Anago”
  • Ga: “Nigeria”
  • Gagauz: “Nigeriya”
  • Galician: “Nigeria”
  • Galician: “Nixeria”
  • Gan Chinese: “尼日利亞”
  • Ganda: “Nayijerya”
  • Ganda: “Nigeria”
  • Georgian: “ნიგერია”
  • German: “Bundesrepublik Nigeria”
  • German: “Bundesrepublik Nigerien”
  • German: “Nigeria”
  • German: “Nigerien”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Federal Republic of Nigeria”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Naija”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Nigeria”
  • Gilaki: “نيجريه”
  • Greek: “Νιγηρία”
  • Guarani: “Niheria”
  • Guarani: “Nihéria”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Nijérya”
  • Gujarati: “નાઇજીરિયા”
  • Gujarati: “નાઇજેરિયા”
  • Gujarati: “નાઈજેરિયા”
  • Gun: “Naijilia”
  • Haitian: “Nijerya”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Nigeria”
  • Hausa: “Najeriya”
  • Hausa: “Nijeriya”
  • Hebrew: “הרפובליקה הפדרלית של ניגריה”
  • Hebrew: “ניגריה”
  • Hindi: “नाइजीरिया”
  • Hindi: “नाईजीरिया”
  • Hungarian: “Nigéria”
  • Hungarian: “Nigériai Szövetségi Köztársaság”
  • Icelandic: “Nígería”
  • Ido: “Nigeria”
  • Igbo: “Naigeria”
  • Igbo: “Naijiria”
  • Igbo: “Naịjịrịa”
  • Igbo: “NGA”
  • Iloko: “Nigeria”
  • Inari Sami: “Nigeria littotäsiväldi”
  • Inari Sami: “Nigeria”
  • Indonesian: “Nigeria”
  • Ingush: “Нигери”
  • Interlingua: “Nigeria”
  • Interlingue: “Nigeria”
  • Inupiaq: “Naitchiriaq”
  • Irish: “an Nigéir”
  • Irish: “An Nigéir”
  • Italian: “Nigeria”
  • Italian: “Repubblica Federale della Nigeria”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Naijiiria”
  • Japanese: “ナイジェリア”
  • Japanese: “ナイジェリア連邦共和国”
  • Javanese: “Nigéria”
  • Kabiyè: “Naajeeriya”
  • Kabyle: “Nijirya”
  • Kalaallisut: “Nigeria”
  • Kalmyk: “Нигермудин Ниицәтә Орн”
  • Kannada: “ನೈಜೀರಿಯ”
  • Kannada: “ನೈಜೀರಿಯಾ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Nigeriya”
  • Kashmiri: “نائیجیریا”
  • Kashmiri: “نایجیرِیا”
  • Kazakh: “Нигерия”
  • Khmer: “នីហ្សេរីយ៉ា”
  • Kikuyu: “Nainjeria”
  • Kikuyu: “Nigeria”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Nijeriya”
  • Kirghiz: “Нигерия”
  • Komering: “Nigeria”
  • Komering: “Nigeriya”
  • Kongo: “Nizeria”
  • Korean: “나이제리아”
  • Korean: “나이지리아”
  • Kotava: “Nigeria”
  • Kurdish: “Nîjerya”
  • Ladin: “Nigeria”
  • Ladino: “Nijeria”
  • Lao: “ໄນຈີເຣຍ”
  • Latgalian: “Nigereja”
  • Latin: “Nigeria”
  • Latvian: “Nigērija”
  • Lezghian: “Нигерия”
  • Ligurian: “Nigeria”
  • Limburgan: “Nigeria”
  • Lingala: “Nizeria”
  • Lingala: “Nizerya”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Nijeria”
  • Literary Chinese: “尼日利亞”
  • Lithuanian: “Nigerija”
  • Livvi: “Nigerii”
  • Lojban: “nixerias”
  • Lombard: “Nigeria”
  • Low German: “Nigeria”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Nigerija”
  • Luba-Katanga: “Nijerya”
  • Lule Sami: “Nigerra”
  • Lule Sami: “Nigierra”
  • Luxembourgish: “Nigeria”
  • Macedonian: “Нигерија”
  • Madurese: “Nigeria”
  • Malagasy: “Nizeria”
  • Malagasy: “Nizerià”
  • Malay: “NG”
  • Malay: “Nigeria”
  • Malay: “Republik Persekutuan Nigeria”
  • Malay: “نايجيريا”
  • Malayalam: “നൈജീരിയ”
  • Maltese: “in-Niġerja”
  • Maltese: “Niġerja”
  • Maltese: “Repubblika Federali tan-Niġerja”
  • Manipuri: “ꯅꯥꯢꯖꯤꯔꯤꯌꯥ”
  • Manx: “Yn Naigeer”
  • Maori: “Ngāitiria”
  • Marathi: “नायजेरिया”
  • Mazanderani: “نیجریا”
  • Mazanderani: “نیجریه”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Nigeria”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Nigeria”
  • Minangkabau: “Nigeria”
  • Mingrelian: “ნიგერია”
  • Mirandese: “Nigéria”
  • Moksha: “Нигэрия”
  • Mongolian: “Нигери”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “نيجيريا”
  • Mossi: “Nigeria”
  • Narom: “Nigérie”
  • Nauru: “Nigeria”
  • Navajo: “Naakaii Łizhinii Biʼéénézí Bikéyah”
  • Nepali: “नाइजेरिया”
  • Newari: “नाइजेरिया”
  • Nigerian Pidgin: “Naija”
  • North Ndebele: “Nigeriya”
  • Northern Frisian: “Nigeeria”
  • Northern Luri: “نیجریه”
  • Northern Sami: “Nigeria lihttodásseváldi”
  • Northern Sami: “Nigeria”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Forbundsrepublikken Nigeria”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Nigeria”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Nigeria”
  • Norwegian: “Nigeria”
  • Novial: “Nigeria”
  • Nupe-Nupe-Tako: “Nigeria”
  • Obolo: “Naijiria”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Nigèria”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Republica Federala de Nigèria”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Nigeria”
  • Oriya: “ନାଇଜେରିଆ”
  • Oromo: “Naayijeeriyaa”
  • Ossetian: “Нигери”
  • Paiwan: “INigeria”
  • Pali: “नैजीरिया”
  • Pampanga: “Nigeria”
  • Panjabi: “ਨਾਈਜੀਰੀਆ”
  • Papiamento: “Nigeria”
  • Pedi: “Nigeria”
  • Persian: “نایجریا”
  • Persian: “نیجریه”
  • Pfaelzisch: “Nigeria”
  • Piemontese: “Nigeria”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Niijiirya”
  • Polish: “Nigeria”
  • Portuguese: “Nigéria”
  • Portuguese: “República Federal da Nigéria”
  • Pushto: “نايجېريا”
  • Pushto: “نایجیریا”
  • Quechua: “Nigeria”
  • Quechua: “Nihirya”
  • Quechua: “Niqirya”
  • Rakhine: “နိုင်ဂျီးရီးယားနိုင်ငံ”
  • Romanian: “Nigeria”
  • Romansh: “Nigeria”
  • Rundi: “Nijeriya”
  • Russia Buriat: “Нигери”
  • Russian: “Нигерия”
  • Russian: “Федеративная Республика Нигерия”
  • Rusyn: “Ніґерія”
  • Sakizaya: “Nigeria”
  • Samoan: “Nigeria”
  • Samogitian: “Nigerėjė”
  • Sango: “Nizerïa”
  • Sanskrit: “नैजीरिया”
  • Santali: “ᱱᱟᱭᱡᱮᱨᱤᱭᱟ”
  • Sardinian: “Nigèria”
  • Sardinian: “Repùblica Federale de sa Nigèria”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Nigeria”
  • Scots: “Federal Republic o Nigerie”
  • Scots: “Nigeirie”
  • Scots: “Nigerie”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Nigèiria”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Nìgeiria”
  • Serbian: “Nigerija”
  • Serbian: “Нигерија”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Nigerija”
  • Shan: “မိူင်းၼၢႆႇၵျီးရီးယႃး”
  • Shona: “Naijeriya”
  • Shona: “Nigeria”
  • Sicilian: “Nigeria”
  • Sicilian: “Nigiria”
  • Sicilian: “Ripùbblica Fidirali dâ Nigeria”
  • Sicilian: “Ripùbblica Fidirali dâ Nigiria”
  • Silesian: “Ńigeryjo”
  • Sindhi: “نائيجيريا”
  • Sinhala: “නයිජීරියාව”
  • Skolt Sami: “Nigeria lett-tääʹssväʹldd”
  • Skolt Sami: “Nigeria”
  • Slovak: “Nigéria”
  • Slovak: “Nigérijská federatívna republika”
  • Slovenian: “Nigerija”
  • Somali: “Nayjeeriya”
  • South Azerbaijani: “نیجریه”
  • Southern Sotho: “Nigeria”
  • Spanish: “Nigeria”
  • Spanish: “Republica Federal de Nigeria”
  • Spanish: “República Federal de Nigeria”
  • Sranan Tongo: “Nigeria”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⵏⵉⵊⵉⵔⵢⴰ”
  • Sundanese: “Nigeria”
  • Sundanese: “Nigéria”
  • Swahili: “Nigeria”
  • Swahili: “Nijeria”
  • Swati: “INayijeriya”
  • Swedish: “Förbundsrepubliken Nigeria”
  • Swedish: “Nigeria”
  • Swiss German: “Nigeria”
  • Sylheti: “ꠘꠣꠁꠎꠦꠞꠤꠀ”
  • Tachelhit: “Nijirya”
  • Tagalog: “Nigeria”
  • Tagalog: “Nigerya”
  • Tajik: “Çumhuriji Federativiji Nigerija”
  • Tajik: “Jumhurii Federativii Nigeriya”
  • Tajik: “Nigeria”
  • Tajik: “Nigerija”
  • Tajik: “Nigeriya”
  • Tajik: “Нигерия”
  • Tajik: “Ниҷерия”
  • Tajik: “Ҷумҳурии Федеративии Нигерия”
  • Talysh: “Nigerijə”
  • Tamil: “நைஜீரியா”
  • Taroko: “Nigeria”
  • Tatar: “Нигерия”
  • Telugu: “నైజీరియా”
  • Tetum: “Nijéria”
  • Thai: “ไนจีเรีย”
  • Thai: “ประเทศไนจีเรีย”
  • Tibetan: “ནཱའི་ཇི་རི་ཡ།”
  • Tibetan: “ནི་ཇི་རི་ཡ།”
  • Tigrinya: “ናይጂሪያ”
  • Tigrinya: “ናይጄሪያ”
  • Tok Pisin: “Naijiria”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Naisilia”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Naisīlia”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Nigeria”
  • Tsonga: “Nayjeriya”
  • Tsonga: “Nigeria”
  • Tumbuka: “Naija”
  • Tumbuka: “Nigeria”
  • Tunisian Arabic: “نيجيريا”
  • Turkish: “Nijerya”
  • Turkmen: “Nigeriýa”
  • Twi: “Alata man”
  • Twi: “Alata”
  • Twi: “Nigeria”
  • Tyap: “Naija”
  • Tyap: “Naijeriya”
  • Tyap: “Najeriya”
  • Tyap: “Ri̱pobi̱lik Mundundung Naijeriya”
  • Udmurt: “Нигерия”
  • Uighur: “نىگېرىيە”
  • Ukrainian: “Нігерія”
  • Ukrainian: “Ніґерія”
  • Ukrainian: “Федеративна Республіка Нігерія”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Nigerija”
  • Urdu: “نائجیریا”
  • Urdu: “نائیجیریا”
  • Uzbek: “Nigeriya”
  • Venetian: “Nizèria”
  • Veps: “Nigerii”
  • Vietnamese: “Ni-giê-ri-a (Nigeria)”
  • Vietnamese: “Ni-giê-ri-a”
  • Vietnamese: “Nigeria”
  • Vlaams: “Nigeria”
  • Vlax Romani: “Nigeria”
  • Volapük: “Nigeriyän”
  • Võro: “Nigeeriä”
  • Walloon: “Nidjeria”
  • Walloon: “Republike federåle do Nidjeria”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Nigeria”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Nigerya”
  • Welsh: “Nigeria”
  • Western Armenian: “Նիճերիա”
  • Western Frisian: “Federale Republyk Nigearia”
  • Western Frisian: “Nigearia”
  • Western Frisian: “Nigeria”
  • Western Mari: “Нигери”
  • Western Panjabi: “نائیجیریا”
  • Wolof: “Niseeria”
  • Wolof: “Niseeriya”
  • Wolof: “Niseriya”
  • Wu Chinese: “尼日利亚”
  • Xhosa: “INigeria”
  • Yakut: “Нигерия”
  • Yiddish: “ניגעריע”
  • Yoruba: “Nàìjá”
  • Yoruba: “Nàìjíríà”
  • Yoruba: “Naijiriya”
  • Yoruba: “NG”
  • Yoruba: “Nigeria”
  • Yoruba: “Orílẹ̀-èdè Olómìniira Aláàpapọ̀ Nàìjíríà”
  • Yoruba: “Orílẹ́ède Nàìjíríà”
  • Yue Chinese: “尼日利亞”
  • Zeeuws: “Niheria”
  • Zhuang: “Nigeria”
  • Zhuang: “Nizywlihya”
  • Zulu: “i-Nigeria”
  • Zulu: “INigeria”
  • “ma Naselija”
  • “Nigeeriä”
  • “Nigerėjė”
  • “Nigeria”
  • “Nigerie”
  • “नाइजीरिया”

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