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| Location | Western Africa, bordering the Gulf of Guinea, between Benin and Cameroon |
| Geographic coordinates | 10 00 N, 8 00 E |
| Map references | africa |
| Area |
total: 923,768 sq km water: 13,000 sq km land: 910,768 sq km |
| Area comparative | slightly more than twice the size of California |
| Land boundaries |
total: 4,047 km border countries: benin 773 km, cameroon 1,690 km, chad 87 km, niger 1,497 km |
| Coastline | 853 km |
| Maritime claims |
territorial sea: 12 nm exclusive economic zone: 200 nm continental shelf: 200-m depth or to the depth of exploitation |
| Climate | varies; equatorial in south, tropical in center, arid in north |
| Terrain | southern lowlands merge into central hills and plateaus; mountains in southeast, plains in north |
| Elevation extremes |
lowest point: atlantic ocean 0 m highest point: chappal waddi 2,419 m |
| Natural resources | natural gas, petroleum, tin, columbite, iron ore, coal, limestone, lead, zinc, arable land |
| Land use |
arable land: 31.29% permanent crops: 2.96% other: 65.75% (2001) |
| Irrigated land | 2,330 sq km (1998 est.) |
| Natural hazards | periodic droughts; flooding |
| Environment - current issues | soil degradation; rapid deforestation; urban air and water pollution; desertification; oil pollution - water, air, and soil; has suffered serious damage from oil spills; loss of arable land; rapid urbanization |
| Environment - international agreements |
party to: biodiversity, climate change, desertification, endangered species, hazardous wastes, law of the sea, marine dumping, marine life conservation, ozone layer protection, wetlands signed, but not ratified: none of the selected agreements |
| Geography note | the Niger enters the country in the northwest and flows southward through tropical rain forests and swamps to its delta in the Gulf of Guinea |
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