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Niger Delta
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delta of the Niger River in Nigeria and the surrounding region
Key facts
- Location
- Southern Nigeria
- Area
- 6,992,967 ha (27,000.00 sq mi)
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- river delta
- Country
- Niger
- Located in
- Onitsha North
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00
- Image
- Nigerdelta NASA.jpg
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- Commons category
- Niger Delta
- different from
- Inner Niger Delta
- topic's main category
- Category:Niger River Delta
- delta of
- Niger River
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Encyclopedic overview
View of the Niger Delta from space (north/land at top).
The Niger Delta is the delta of the Niger River sitting directly on the Gulf of Guinea on the Atlantic Ocean in Nigeria. It is located within nine coastal southern Nigerian states, which include: all six states from the South South geopolitical zone, one state (Ondo) from South West geopolitical zone and two states (Abia and Imo) from South East geopolitical zone.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Niger Delta” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.