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2013 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
12. Nigeria
Author : C. J. Campbell
Published in: Campbell's Atlas of Oil and Gas Depletion
Publisher: Springer New York
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Abstract
Nigeria covers 930,000 km2, extending from the deserts of the north, which border the Sahara, to tropical rain forests of the south. Most of the country is relatively flat-lying with rivers flowing through shallow valleys in extensive plains, although more mountainous terrain builds in the south on the border with the Cameroons. The country is drained by the Niger and Benue rivers, which converge in an extensive delta of freshwater swamps and mangroves. With 162 million inhabitants, it is the most populous country in Africa, also having one of the highest population densities. Lagos, the capital, is home to some eight million people. Nigeria joined OPEC in 1971, and has played a prominent part in the organisation.