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100 relations: Abuja, Adamawa Plateau, Air mass (astronomy), Alpine climate, Arable land, Atlantic Ocean, Atmosphere, Bayelsa State, Benin, Benue River, Bonny, Rivers, Border, Borno State, Calabar, Cameroon, Central African mangroves, Chad, Chappal Waddi, Coal, Coast, Coastal plain, Columbite, Confluence, Crop, Cross River (Nigeria), Cumulonimbus cloud, Encarta, Equator, Forçados, Forest, Fresh water, Gas, Guinean forest-savanna mosaic, Gulf of Guinea, Gvat, Harmattan, Highland, Humidity, Hydropower, Intertropical Convergence Zone, Iron ore, Island, Jos Plateau, Köppen climate classification, Lake Chad, Latitude, Lead, Limestone, Lokoja, Mambilla Plateau, ..., Mangrove, Microsoft, Middle Belt, Monsoon, Montane ecosystems, Natural gas, Niger, Niger Delta, Niger River, Nigeria, North Africa, Northern Hemisphere, Northern Region, Nigeria, Obudu Plateau, Oyo State, Petroleum, Petroleum industry in Nigeria, Plateau, Port Harcourt, Precipitation, Ridge, River, River delta, Sahara, Sahel, Sea, Season, Sokoto State, Solar irradiance, Southern Hemisphere, Southern Nigeria Protectorate, Squall line, Stream, Swamp, Temperate climate, Thunderstorm, Tin, Trade winds, Tropic of Cancer, Tropic of Capricorn, Tropical monsoon climate, Tropical savanna climate, Tropics, University of Northern Iowa, Valley, Vegetation, Village, Warri, West Africa, Zinc. Expand index (50 more) »
Abuja
Abuja is the capital city of Nigeria located in the centre of the country within the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
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Adamawa Plateau
The Adamawa Plateau (Massif de l'Adamaoua) is a plateau region in central Africa stretching from south-eastern Nigeria through north-central Cameroon (Adamawa and North Provinces) to the Central African Republic.
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Air mass (astronomy)
In astronomy, air mass (airmass, or AM) is the path length for light from a celestial source to pass through the atmosphere.
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Alpine climate
Alpine climate is the average weather (climate) for the regions above the tree line.
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Arable land
Arable land (from Latin arabilis, "able to be plowed") is, according to one definition, land capable of being ploughed and used to grow crops.
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Atlantic Ocean
The Atlantic Ocean is the second largest of the world's oceans with a total area of about.
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Atmosphere
An atmosphere is a layer or a set of layers of gases surrounding a planet or other material body, that is held in place by the gravity of that body.
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Bayelsa State
Bayelsa is a state in southern Nigeria in the core Niger Delta region, between Delta State and Rivers State.
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Benin
Benin (Bénin), officially the Republic of Benin (République du Bénin) and formerly Dahomey, is a country in West Africa.
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Benue River
The Benue River (la Bénoué), previously known as the Chadda River or Tchadda, is the major tributary of the Niger River.
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Bonny, Rivers
Bonny (or Ubani) is an island town and a Local Government Area in Rivers State in southern Nigeria, on the Bight of Bonny.
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Border
Borders are geographic boundaries of political entities or legal jurisdictions, such as governments, sovereign states, federated states, and other subnational entities.
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Borno State
Borno, also known as Borno State, is a state in north-eastern Nigeria.
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Calabar
Calabar (also referred to as "Canaan City") is a city in Cross River State, in south southern Nigeria.
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Cameroon
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Central African mangroves
The Central African mangroves ecoregion consists of the largest area of mangrove swamp in Africa, located on the coasts of West Africa, mainly in Nigeria.
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Chad
Chad (تشاد; Tchad), officially the Republic of Chad ("Republic of the Chad"), is a landlocked country in Central Africa.
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Chappal Waddi
Chappal Waddi' is a mountain in Nigeria and, at 2,419 meters, is the country's highest point.
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Coal
Coal is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock usually occurring in rock strata in layers or veins called coal beds or coal seams.
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Coast
A coastline or a seashore is the area where land meets the sea or ocean, or a line that forms the boundary between the land and the ocean or a lake.
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Coastal plain
A coastal plain is flat, low-lying land adjacent to a sea coast.
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Columbite
Columbite, also called niobite, niobite-tantalite and columbate, is a black mineral group that is an ore of niobium.
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Confluence
In geography, a confluence (also: conflux) occurs where two or more flowing bodies of water join together to form a single channel.
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Crop
A crop is a plant or animal product that can be grown and harvested extensively for profit or subsistence.
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Cross River (Nigeria)
Cross River (native name: Oyono) is the main river in southeastern Nigeria and gives its name to Cross River State.
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Cumulonimbus cloud
Cumulonimbus, from the Latin cumulus ("heaped") and nimbus ("rainstorm"), is a dense, towering vertical cloud, forming from water vapor carried by powerful upward air currents.
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Encarta
Microsoft Encarta was a digital multimedia encyclopedia published by Microsoft Corporation from 1993 to 2009.
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Equator
An equator of a rotating spheroid (such as a planet) is its zeroth circle of latitude (parallel).
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Forçados
Forçados is a small town in Burutu LGA of Delta State, Nigeria.
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Forest
A forest is a large area dominated by trees.
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Fresh water
Fresh water (or freshwater) is any naturally occurring water except seawater and brackish water.
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Gas
Gas is one of the four fundamental states of matter (the others being solid, liquid, and plasma).
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Guinean forest-savanna mosaic
The Guinean forest-savanna mosaic is an ecoregion of West Africa, a band of interlaced forest, savanna, and grassland running east to west and dividing the tropical moist forests near the coast from the West Sudanian savanna of the interior.
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Gulf of Guinea
The Gulf of Guinea is the northeasternmost part of the tropical Atlantic Ocean between Cape Lopez in Gabon, north and west to Cape Palmas in Liberia.
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Gvat
Gvat (גְּבַת, also transliterated Gevat) is a kibbutz in northern Israel.
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Harmattan
The Harmattan is a season in the West African subcontinent, which occurs between the end of November and the middle of March.
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Highland
Highlands or uplands are any mountainous region or elevated mountainous plateau.
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Humidity
Humidity is the amount of water vapor present in the air.
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Hydropower
Hydropower or water power (from ύδωρ, "water") is power derived from the energy of falling water or fast running water, which may be harnessed for useful purposes.
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Intertropical Convergence Zone
The Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ), known by sailors as the doldrums, is the area encircling Earth near the Equator, where the northeast and southeast trade winds converge.
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Iron ore
Iron ores are rocks and minerals from which metallic iron can be economically extracted.
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Island
An island or isle is any piece of sub-continental land that is surrounded by water.
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Jos Plateau
The Jos Plateau is a plateau located near the centre of Nigeria.
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Köppen climate classification
The Köppen climate classification is one of the most widely used climate classification systems.
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Lake Chad
Lake Chad (French: Lac Tchad) is a historically large, shallow, endorheic lake in Africa, which has varied in size over the centuries.
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Latitude
In geography, latitude is a geographic coordinate that specifies the north–south position of a point on the Earth's surface.
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Lead
Lead is a chemical element with symbol Pb (from the Latin plumbum) and atomic number 82.
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Limestone
Limestone is a sedimentary rock, composed mainly of skeletal fragments of marine organisms such as coral, forams and molluscs.
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Lokoja
Lokoja is a city in Nigeria.
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Mambilla Plateau
The Mambilla Plateau is a plateau in the Taraba State of Nigeria.
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Mangrove
A mangrove is a shrub or small tree that grows in coastal saline or brackish water.
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Microsoft
Microsoft Corporation (abbreviated as MS) is an American multinational technology company with headquarters in Redmond, Washington.
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Middle Belt
The Middle Belt is a human geographical term designating the region of central Nigeria populated largely by minority ethnic groups and stretching across the country longitudinally.
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Monsoon
Monsoon is traditionally defined as a seasonal reversing wind accompanied by corresponding changes in precipitation, but is now used to describe seasonal changes in atmospheric circulation and precipitation associated with the asymmetric heating of land and sea.
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Montane ecosystems
Montane ecosystems refers to any ecosystem found in mountains.
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Natural gas
Natural gas is a naturally occurring hydrocarbon gas mixture consisting primarily of methane, but commonly including varying amounts of other higher alkanes, and sometimes a small percentage of carbon dioxide, nitrogen, hydrogen sulfide, or helium.
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Niger
Niger, also called the Niger officially the Republic of the Niger, is a landlocked country in Western Africa named after the Niger River.
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Niger Delta
The Niger Delta is the delta of the Niger River sitting directly on the Gulf of Guinea on the Atlantic Ocean in Nigeria.
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Niger River
The Niger River is the principal river of West Africa, extending about.
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Nigeria
Nigeria, officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria is a federal republic in West Africa, bordering Benin in the west, Chad and Cameroon in the east, and Niger in the north.
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North Africa
North Africa is a collective term for a group of Mediterranean countries and territories situated in the northern-most region of the African continent.
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Northern Hemisphere
The Northern Hemisphere is the half of Earth that is north of the Equator.
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Northern Region, Nigeria
Northern Nigeria was an autonomous division within Nigeria, distinctly different from the southern part of the country, with independent customs, foreign relations and security structures.
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Obudu Plateau
Obudu Plateau is a plateau found on the Oshie Ridge of the Sankwala Mountain range, in Cross River State, in the southeast of Nigeria.
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Oyo State
Oyo, usually referred to as Oyo State to distinguish it from the city of Oyo, is an inland state in south-western Nigeria, with its capital at Ibadan.
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Petroleum
Petroleum is a naturally occurring, yellow-to-black liquid found in geological formations beneath the Earth's surface.
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Petroleum industry in Nigeria
Nigeria is the largest oil and gas producer in Africa.
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Plateau
In geology and physical geography a plateau (or; plural plateaus or plateaux),is also called a high plain or a tableland, it is an area of a highland, usually consisting of relatively flat terrain that is raised significantly above the surrounding area, often with one or more sides with steep slopes.
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Port Harcourt
Port Harcourt (Ikwerre: Ígúọ́cha; Pidgin: Po-ta-kot) is the capital and largest city of Rivers State, Nigeria.
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Precipitation
In meteorology, precipitation is any product of the condensation of atmospheric water vapor that falls under gravity.
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Ridge
A ridge or mountain ridge are geological features consisting of a chain of mountains or hills that form a continuous elevated crest for some distance.The sides of the ridge slope away from narrow top on either side.The line along the crest formed by the highest points, with the terrain dropping down on either side, is called the ridgeline.
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River
A river is a natural flowing watercourse, usually freshwater, flowing towards an ocean, sea, lake or another river.
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River delta
A river delta is a landform that forms from deposition of sediment carried by a river as the flow leaves its mouth and enters slower-moving or stagnant water.
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Sahara
The Sahara (الصحراء الكبرى,, 'the Great Desert') is the largest hot desert and the third largest desert in the world after Antarctica and the Arctic.
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Sahel
The Sahel is the ecoclimatic and biogeographic zone of transition in Africa between the Sahara to the north and the Sudanian Savanna to the south.
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Sea
A sea is a large body of salt water that is surrounded in whole or in part by land.
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Season
A season is a division of the year marked by changes in weather, ecology, and amount of daylight.
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Sokoto State
Sokoto, usually referred to as Sokoto State to distinguish it from the city of Sokoto, is located in the extreme northwest of Nigeria, near to the confluence of the Sokoto River and the Rima River.
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Solar irradiance
Solar irradiance is the power per unit area received from the Sun in the form of electromagnetic radiation in the wavelength range of the measuring instrument.
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Southern Hemisphere
The Southern Hemisphere is the half of Earth that is south of the Equator.
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Southern Nigeria Protectorate
Southern Nigeria was a British protectorate in the coastal areas of modern-day Nigeria formed in 1900 from the union of the Niger Coast Protectorate with territories chartered by the Royal Niger Company below Lokoja on the Niger River.
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Squall line
A squall line (also known as a quasi-linear convective system or QLCS) is a line of thunderstorms forming along or ahead of a cold front.
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Stream
A stream is a body of water with surface water flowing within the bed and banks of a channel.
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Swamp
A swamp is a wetland that is forested.
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Temperate climate
In geography, the temperate or tepid climates of Earth occur in the middle latitudes, which span between the tropics and the polar regions of Earth.
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Thunderstorm
A thunderstorm, also known as an electrical storm, lightning storm, or thundershower, is a storm characterized by the presence of lightning and its acoustic effect on the Earth's atmosphere, known as thunder.
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Tin
Tin is a chemical element with the symbol Sn (from stannum) and atomic number 50.
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Trade winds
The trade winds are the prevailing pattern of easterly surface winds found in the tropics, within the lower portion of the Earth's atmosphere, in the lower section of the troposphere near the Earth's equator.
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Tropic of Cancer
The Tropic of Cancer, also referred to as the Northern Tropic, is the most northerly circle of latitude on Earth at which the Sun can be directly overhead.
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Tropic of Capricorn
The Tropic of Capricorn (or the Southern Tropic) is the circle of latitude that contains the subsolar point on the December (or southern) solstice.
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Tropical monsoon climate
A tropical monsoon climate (occasionally known as a tropical wet climate or a tropical monsoon and trade-wind littoral climate) is a type of climate that corresponds to the Köppen climate classification category "Am".
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Tropical savanna climate
Tropical savanna climate or tropical wet and dry climate is a type of climate that corresponds to the Köppen climate classification categories "Aw" and "As".
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Tropics
The tropics are a region of the Earth surrounding the Equator.
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University of Northern Iowa
The University of Northern Iowa (UNI) is a university located in Cedar Falls, Iowa, United States.
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Valley
A valley is a low area between hills or mountains often with a river running through it.
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Vegetation
Vegetation is an assemblage of plant species and the ground cover they provide.
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Village
A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town, with a population ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand.
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Warri
The city of Warri is an oil hub in South-South Nigeria and houses an annex of the Delta State Government House.
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West Africa
West Africa, also called Western Africa and the West of Africa, is the westernmost region of Africa.
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Zinc
Zinc is a chemical element with symbol Zn and atomic number 30.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography_of_Nigeria
