Not logged in : Login
(Sponging disallowed)

About: Nigeria     Goto   Sponge   NotDistinct   Permalink

An Entity of Type : foaf:Concept, within Data Space : www.openlinksw.com associated with source document(s)
QRcode icon
http://www.openlinksw.com/describe/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fods.openlinksw.com%3A8889%2Fabout%2Fid%2Fentity%2Fhttp%2Fdublincore.org%2Fusage%2Fterms%2Fhistory%2F%23nigeria

AttributesValues
focus
Description
  • Nigeria (pronounced /naɪˈdʒɪəriə/), officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a federal constitutional republic comprising thirty-six states and its Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. The country is located in West Africa and shares land borders with the Republic of Benin in the west, Chad and Cameroon in the east, and Niger in the north. Its coast in the south lies on the Gulf of Guinea on the Atlantic Ocean. The three largest and most influential ethnic groups in Nigeria are the Hausa, Igbo and Yoruba. In terms of religion Nigeria is roughly split half and half between Muslims and Christians with a very small minority who practice traditional religions. The people of Nigeria have an extensive history. Archaeological evidence shows that human habitation of the area dates back to at least 9000 BC. The area around the Benue and Cross River is thought to be the original homeland of the Bantu migrants who spread across most of central and southern Africa in waves between the 1st...
Title
  • Nigeria
providedBy
type
is seeAlso of
Faceted Search & Find service v1.17_git122 as of Jan 03 2023


Alternative Linked Data Documents: iSPARQL | ODE     Content Formats:   [cxml] [csv]     RDF   [text] [turtle] [ld+json] [rdf+json] [rdf+xml]     ODATA   [atom+xml] [odata+json]     Microdata   [microdata+json] [html]    About   
This material is Open Knowledge   W3C Semantic Web Technology [RDF Data] Valid XHTML + RDFa
OpenLink Virtuoso version 08.03.3330 as of Apr 5 2024, on Linux (x86_64-generic-linux-glibc25), Single-Server Edition (30 GB total memory, 26 GB memory in use)
Data on this page belongs to its respective rights holders.
Virtuoso Faceted Browser Copyright © 2009-2024 OpenLink Software