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Nigeria (nation) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 10 00 00 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 10.0000 decimal degrees |
| Long: 008 00 00 E degrees minutes |
Long: 8.0000 decimal degrees |
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Note: Earliest identified culture in region was Nok in the 4th century BCE; part of Songhai Empire frm the 10-16th centuries; Spain and Portugal invaded in the 16th century, other Europeans during the 18-19th centuries; native king ceded Lagos to Britain in 1861; borders and administration changed often during the 19-20th centuries; official language is English, though Hausa, Yoruba, Edo, and Ibo are widely spoken. |
Names: |
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| Nigeria (preferred,C,V,English-P,U,N)
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| Nigeria (Vietnamese)
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| Nigeria (Igbo)
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| Nigeria (Ilocano)
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| Nigeria (Indonesian)
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| Nigeria (Latin)
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| Nigeria (Danish)
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| Nigeria (Norwegian (Nynorsk))
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| Nigeria (Finnish)
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| Nigeria (Swedish)
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| Nigeria (Polish)
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| Nigeria (Romanian)
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| Nigeria (Spanish-P,U,N)
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| Nigeria (Basque)
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| Nigeria (Welsh)
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| Nigeria (German)
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| Nigeria (Low German)
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| Nigeria (Albanian)
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| Nigeria (Breton)
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| Nigeria (Dutch)
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| Nigeria (French)
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| Nigeria (Faroese)
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| Nigeria (Italian)
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| Nigeria (Greenlandic)
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| Nigeria (Anglo-Saxon)
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| Nigeria (Norwegian (Bokmål))
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| Nigeria (Romansh)
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| Nigeria (Malay (macrolanguage))
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| Nigeria (Norwegian)
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| Nigeria (Pampanga)
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| Nigeria (Northern Sami)
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| Nigeria (Shona)
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| Nigeria (Swahili (generic))
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| Nigeria (Ido)
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| Nigeria (Interlingua (International Auxiliary Language Association))
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| Nigeria (Limburgan)
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| Federal Republic of Nigeria (C,V,O,English,U,N)
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| Nigéria (C,O,Magyar (Hungarian))
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| Nigéria (Portuguese)
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| Nigéria (Slovak)
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| Nigéria (French-P,U,N)
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| République fédérale du Nigéria (C,O,French,U,N)
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| República Federal de Nigeria (C,O,Spanish,U,N)
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| Нигерия (C,O,Bulgarian)
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| Нигерия (Russian-P,U)
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| Федеративная Республика Нигерия (C,O,Russian,U)
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| 尼日利亚 (C,O,Chinese-P,U)
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| 尼日利亚联邦共和国 (C,O,Chinese,U)
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| ه جَيريا (C,O,Arabic-P,U)
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| جُهور ةً ه جَيريا الاتحاد ةً (C,O,Arabic,U)
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| NGA (C,O,ISO3L)
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| NG (C,O,ISO2L)
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| ISO566 (C,O,ISO3N)
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| NI (C,O,FIPS)
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| Nigerian (C,O,English,U,A)
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| ניגריה (C,U,Hebrew )
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| An Nigéir (C,U,Irish Gaelic)
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| INigeria (C,U,Xhosa)
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| i-Nigeria (C,U,Zulu)
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| Naegyeria (C,U,Akan)
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| Naigeria (C,U,Igbo)
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| Naija (C,U,English)
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| Nàìjíríà (C,U,Yoruba)
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| Naijiriya (C,U,Yoruba)
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| Nainjeria (C,U,Kikuyu)
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| Naisīlia (C,U,Tonga (Tonga Islands))
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| Naisilia (C,U,Tonga (Tonga Islands))
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| Najeriya (C,U,Hausa)
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| Nayijerya (C,U,Ganda (Ugandan language))
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| Nayjeeriya (C,U,Somali)
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| Nicheria (C,U,Aragonese)
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| Nidjeria (C,U,Walloon)
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| Nigeeria (C,U,Estonian)
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| Nìgeiria (C,U,Scots Gaelic)
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| Nigeri (C,U,Albanian)
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| Nig·èria (C,U,Arpitan)
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| Nigèria (C,U,Catalan)
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| Nigèria (Occitan)
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| Nígería (C,U,Icelandic)
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| Nigeria nutome (C,U,Ewe)
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| Nigérie (C,U,Czech)
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| Nigerië (C,U,Afrikaans)
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| Nigerija (C,U,Croatian)
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| Nigerija (Bosnian)
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| Nigerija (Slovene)
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| Nigerija (Lithuanian)
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| Nigērija (C,U,Latvian)
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| Niĝerio (C,U,Esperanto)
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| Nigeriýa (C,U,Turkmen)
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| Nigeriya (C,U,North Ndebele)
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| Nigeriyän (C,U,Volapük)
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| Niġerja (C,U,Maltese)
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| Nigerya (C,U,Tagalog)
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| Ni-giê-ri-a (C,U,Vietnamese)
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| Ni-giê-ri-a (Nigeria) (C,U,Vietnamese)
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| Nijeri (C,U,Cornish)
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| Nijeria (C,U,Swahili (generic))
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| Nijeriya (C,U,Rundi)
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| Nijeriya (Rwanda)
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| Nijeriya (Azerbaijani)
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| Nijeriya (Hausa)
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| Nijeriyaa (C,U,Fulah)
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| Nijerya (C,U,Turkish)
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| Nijerya (Haitian (Haitian Creole))
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| Nijerya (Luba-Katanga)
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| Nixeria (C,U,Asturian)
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| Nixeria (Galician)
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| Nixeria - Nigeria (C,U,Galician)
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| Nizeria (C,U,Malagasy)
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| Nizeria (Kongo (Congo))
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| Nizerïa (C,U,Sangho)
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| Nizeriya (C,U,Bambara)
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| Nizerya (C,U,Lingala)
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| Orílẹ́ède Nàìjíríà (C,U,Yoruba)
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| Republic of Songhai (C,U)
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| ნიგერია (C,U,Georgian)
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| नाईजीरिया (C,U,Hindi)
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| 나이지리아 (C,U,Korean)
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| نىگېرىيە (C,U,Uyghur)
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| Νιγηρία (C,U,Greek)
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| 奈及利亞 (C,U,Chinese)
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| நைஜீரியா (C,U,Tamil)
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| ประเทศไนจีเรีย (C,U,Thai)
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| Нигерија (C,U,Serbian)
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| Нигерија (Macedonian)
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| ናይጄሪያ (C,U,Tigrinya)
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| ናይጄሪያ (Amharic)
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| ไนจีเรีย (C,U,Thai)
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| نیجریه (C,U,Persian-Farsi)
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| Нигери (C,U,Chuvash)
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| Ніґерія (C,U,Ukrainian)
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| نيجيريا (C,U,Arabic)
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| Нігерія (C,U,Ukrainian)
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| Ниҷерия (C,U,Tajik)
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| ナイジェリア (C,U,Japanese)
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| Նիգերիա (C,U,Armenian)
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| នីហ្សេរីយ៉ា (C,U,Khmer)
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| نایجیریا (C,U,Pashto)
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| നൈജീരിയ (C,U,Malayalam)
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| নাইজেরিয়া (C,U,Bengali)
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| ໄນຈີເລຍ (C,U,Lao)
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| නයිජීරියාව (C,U,Sinhala)
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| નાઇજીરીયા (C,U,Gujarati)
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| నైజీరియా (C,U,Telugu)
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| နိုင်ဂျီးရီးယား (C,U,Burmese)
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| ནཱའི་ཇི་རི་ཡ། (C,U,Tibetan)
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| Нігерыя (C,U,Belarusian)
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| नायजेरिया (C,U,Marathi)
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| नाइजेरिया (C,U,Nepali)
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| نائجیریا (C,U,Urdu)
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| ନାଇଜେରିଆ (C,U,Odia)
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| ナイジェリア連邦共和国 (C,U,Japanese)
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| ನೈಜೀರಿಯಾ (C,U,Kannada)
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| Colony and Protectorate of Nigeria (H,V)
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............ | established 1914 |
| Federation of Nigeria (H,V)
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............ | by constitution, 1954 |
| Protectorates of Northern and Southern Nigeria (H,V)
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............ | established 1899 |
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Hierarchical Position: |
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Place Types: |
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| nation (preferred, C) |
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gained independence 1960 |
| primary political unit (C) |
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| independent sovereign nation (C) |
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| republic (C) |
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established 1963 |
| former territory/colony/dependent state (C) |
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| controlled region (H) |
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British, 1861-1960 |
| independent political entity (C) |
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Related geographic places: |
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| capital is .... |
Suleja .......... (inhabited place) |
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(World, Africa, Nigeria, Niger state) [1091831] |
| historical connection .... |
Kotoko Kingdom .......... (former nation/state/empire) |
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(World, Africa) [8711694] |
| member of .... |
Commonwealth of Nations .......... (association) |
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(World) [7005615] |
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joined association in 1960 |
| member of .... |
United Nations .......... (organization) |
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(World) [7029605] |
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joined organization in 1960 |
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Sources and Contributors: |
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| République fédérale du Nigéria.......... |
[VP] |
| ..................................................... |
ISO Handbook (1988) 782 |
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