Nigeria

Nigeria

Capital: Abuja

GDP: $444.3 billion GDP per capita: $2,700Agriculture: 30.9%cocoa, peanuts, cotton, palm oil, corn, rice, rubberIndustry: 43%crude oil, coal, tin, columbite; rubber products, woodServices: 26%

Government is like ours.

Population: 174,507,539

Religion

Muslim 50%, Christian 40%, indigenous beliefs 10%

MusicIncludes drums, xylophones, and various string and wind instruments

LanguagesEnglish (official), Hausa, Yoruba, Igbo, Fulani, over 500 other indigenous languages

ArtTerra-Cotta figures, brass figures of Benin and Ife, and the woodcarvings of the Yoruba people

Geography10 land regions. The Sokoto Plains, the Chad Basin, the Northern High Plains, the Jos Plateau, the Niger-Benue River Valley, the Western Uplands, the Eastern Highlands, the Southwestern Plains, the Southeastern Lowlands, and the Niger Delta.

Recent Events

Strongly against same-sex relationships.

Security forces failed to prevent a second attack on a town by suspected Islamist militants.

Central bank governor exposed corruption in the oil sector.