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Nigeria is the most populous country in Africa and has highly diverse forest ecosystems. Unfortunately, this rich vegetation continues to decline at an alarming rate; 21% of its forest cover...
Below there is the map of Nigeria showing vegetation belts. Vegetation zones in Nigeria. As mentioned in the previous lesson, Nigeria is a state of forests and savannas. Once, a significant part of the territory was covered with dense tropical rainforests.
This study attempts to synthesize pollen records from Nigeria (tropical western Africa) and nearby regions to quantitatively assess Holocene regional vegetation changes (turnover) and stability...
The following maps were produced by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, unless otherwise indicated. Country Maps Nigeria (Political) 1993 (265K)and pdf format (273K)
Free Nigeria GIS Map Files | Resources. We've created multiple GIS maps for the country of Nigeria. Admin Areas (level 1) All of Nigeria. Below is visualization of the GIS border data we have for Nigeria. Features include: Simplified to load quickly with minimal loss of detail (637.3 KB .json file). License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0.
Overview. Nigeria's 356,669 square miles stretch across several climatic regions: a narrow coastal belt of mangrove swamps; a somewhat wider section of rolling hills and tropical rain forests; a still larger dry central plateau, with open woodlands and savanna; and a strip of semi-desert on the fringes of the Sahel.
Seven LULC classes are identified, namely, urban settlement, stoney waste, water body, river bed, cultivated land, open scrub, and dense vegetation.
