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Nigeria: map and facts
Nigeria is in Western Africa. It has about 238 million people (2025), the 6th largest population. It covers 923,768 km², the 31st largest by area. That is about 257 people per km². Its highest point is Chappal Waddi, at 2,419 m. The longest river on its map is the Niger, 4,180 km from source to mouth.
Facts
- Population: 237,527,782 (2025, World Bank)
- Area: 923,768 km² (2024, World Bank)
- Capital: Abuja
- Highest point: Chappal Waddi, 2,419 m (Wikidata)
- Forest: 18.9% of the land (2024, World Bank)
Rivers
The longest rivers on the map of Nigeria, with the length of each whole river (Wikidata):
- Niger: 4,180 km
- Benue: 1,370 km
- Sokoto: 600 km
- Kaduna: 550 km
- Gongola: 531 km
- Komadugu Yobe: 467 km
- Ogun: 300 km
Also on the map: Mariga, Jama'are and Hadejia.
Mountains and landscapes
Its highest peaks:
- Chappal Waddi: 2,419 m (its highest point)
- Mount Dimlang: 1,687 m
Plateaus, plains, deserts and other regions: Niger Delta, Adamawa Plateau and Jos Plateau.
Land
Land cover seen from satellites (NASA MODIS, 2024): grassland 39.7%, farmland 36.4%, savanna 11.3%, farmland with natural plants 5.6%, wooded savanna 2.3%, evergreen broadleaf forest 2%.
Landforms, worked out from the height of the land (USGS GMTED2010): plains 41.7%, plateaus 39%, hills 15.6%, mountains 3.7%.
Forests covered 18.9% of its land in 2024, down from 23.7% in 1990 (World Bank).
Minerals and fuels
- World #10 in rare earths among the countries USGS lists (2025)
Neighbours
Nigeria shares land borders with Benin, Cameroon, Chad and Niger on this map.
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Sources
India’s boundaries are drawn according to India’s official position, simplified for small-scale maps (data: Natural Earth, India view). Each figure shows its year and source; some are rounded. Data release 2026.2.
- Natural Earth (naturalearthdata.com), public domain. Boundaries follow India's official position (Natural Earth's India point of view). Terms
- GMTED2010 courtesy of the U.S. Geological Survey (Danielson and Gesch 2011, USGS Open-File Report 2011-1073). Terms
- Friedl, M., Sulla-Menashe, D. (2022). MODIS/Terra+Aqua Land Cover Type Yearly L3 Global 500m SIN Grid V061. NASA EOSDIS Land Processes DAAC. doi:10.5067/MODIS/MCD12Q1.061. Terms
- The World Bank: World Development Indicators, Population, total (SP.POP.TOTL): UN Population Division, national statistical offices (2025 data, retrieved 2026-10-17). CC BY 4.0. Rounded by Make Me Smarter. Terms
- The World Bank: World Development Indicators, Surface area (AG.SRF.TOTL.K2): FAO (2024 data, retrieved 2026-10-17). CC BY 4.0. Terms
- The World Bank: World Development Indicators, Forest area (% of land area) (AG.LND.FRST.ZS): FAO, FAOSTAT (2024 data, retrieved 2026-10-17). CC BY 4.0. Rounded by Make Me Smarter. Terms
- Wikidata (CC0): names, capitals, peak heights and river lengths, checked by Make Me Smarter. Terms
- Credit: U.S. Geological Survey, Mineral Commodity Summaries 2026 data release (doi:10.5066/P1WKQ63T). Terms
- Landforms worked out by Make Me Smarter from GMTED2010.
- Some figures corrected by Make Me Smarter from published references: Australian Bureau of Statistics; Atlas of Canada; CIA World Factbook (archived); FAO; FAO Global Forest Resources Assessment 2025; FSM Statistics; GeoNames; Gilbertson & Gilbertson's GPS surveys of national high points; INEGI (Mexico); Peaklist.org; PeakVisor; Government of the Pitcairn Islands; Smithsonian Global Volcanism Program; Statistics Finland; UN Demographic Yearbook; UN World Population Prospects 2024; Wikidata; Wikipedia.
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