Facinating Facts

Political info

The government of Nigeria is the Federal  republic and their actual president is Goodluck Jonathan. They got the independence from Great Brittan the 1^st  October 1960, and entered in the ONU the 7^th October 1960.

 Geographical info

Nigeria is 923,768 Km² and only 1.4% of it is water. Nigeria’s climate is divided in two seasons: rain and dry season: in the rain season ( from 4 to 7 months ) the precipitation can arrive till 2.500 mm and the temp. Are from 11° and 8° Celsius. And in the dry season the temp. can go from 26° and 30° Celsius. Their animals are mostly like its near by countries.

Social Info.

In Nigeria the official language is the English, broken English ( African English) and some Nigerian languages are Hausa, Yoruba, e Igbo. The population of Nigeria is 158.092.542 inhabitants and the pop. Density is of 147 inhabitants per square kilometer. Their national coin is the Naira. Nigeria is the African country most populated.

Historical info

For more than 600 years Nigeria was governed by the empire of Kanem-Bornu that was near the lake Chad in the period when Europe was governed by the roman empire. During the 15 – 17^th century both the reigns of Oyo and Benin made an elaborated way of government. While in the 18 and 19^th century they traded (unhappily) slaves. In 1886 they were under the British colony till the end of the second world war when they decided to make teach the Nigerians to make and govern their own independent country.

Values/Beliefs

The beliefs in Nigeria are for the most part on the north Islamic and in the rest the most are Christian and Islamic.

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Fun Facts

Some fun facts of Nigeria are: that the city with the most people is Lagos a very big city where the average population of every area of the city is nine million inhabitants and in the metropolitan area reaches fifteen million people.

Nigeria, even though it is a very small country, it is divided in 32 states.