33 Countries of Origin’ Profiles

2 NIGERIA GEOGRAPHY: Nigeria borders with Niger to the north, with Chad and Cameroon to the east, with the Gulf of Guinea of the Atlantic Ocean to the south, and wit h Benin to the west. Nigeria is large in area and is Africa’s most populous country 1 . CAPITAL: Abuja POPULATION: 192,011,451 2 LANGUAGE: English is Nigeria’s official language; however, there are approximately 200 -500 spoken languages and dialects in Nigeria, out of which the most spoken are Hausa, Igbo, Yoruba, Fulfude, Kanuri Central, Ijaw, Pidgin English, Tiv, Ibibio, Edo. Click here to find out more about the different languages and dialects and which areas they are spoken in. LITERACY RATE : 60% 3 ETHNIC GROUPS: Nigeria is the largest country in Africa: in the 36 states and Federal Capital Territory of Nigeria there are over 500 ethnic groups and over 500 languages spoken. The largest ethnic groups are: Hausa: 25% of the Nigerian population; Muslim; engaged in raising cattle and other stock, growing crops and trading. Yoruba: 21% of the Nigerian population; Muslim or Christian, with some Yoruba holding ancestral beliefs. 1 https://www.britannica.com/place/Nigeria 2 http://www.worldometers.info/world-population/nigeria-population/ 3 http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SE.ADT.LITR.ZS