Nigeria
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- proper noun
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Nigeria
- The majority of the people of Nigeria are peasants and workers.
- Northern Nigeria
- southeastern Nigeria
- military regimes in Nigeria
It was a boarding school in Nigeria, incredibly strict.
- It was a boarding school in Nigeria, incredibly strict.
- And, you know, it's down to three countries, Nigeria, Pakistan, Afghanistan.
- It's countries like Nigeria which are worse off than if they'd never had oil.
- We're importing much dirtier sources of fossil fuel from Nigeria or Saudi Arabia or elsewhere.
- One northern Nigerian state, in fact, boycotted Nigeria's overall vaccine program for five years.
- I mean, smoking weed could even help end the Jolof wars between Nigeria and Ghana.
- The UN, the US, and the African Union all supported his exile in Nigeria.
- They do a lot of good things both in the UK and back home in Nigeria.
- I don't mind building houses in Nigeria.
- But they'll, they were, they were firmly like brought up and bred in, in Nigeria.
- Most people in Brazil, in Nigeria, in India, they don't understand.
- Anti colonial revolutionaries in Nigeria mainly wrote in French.
Examples
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Adah had heard of this assistance before, in Nigeria; she learned about it in her Social History lessons.
Fiction book (1990) -
I have roots in Nigeria.
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...in Nigeria, this is reality.
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In Nigeria, many of the people that we minister to are only ever a moment away from death.
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I was a commissioner in Nigeria for six years .
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Such homes exist in major towns and cities in Nigeria today.
Academic text (2011) -
Over the last 12 years, Indonesia, Mexico, and Nigeria have all successfully made the transition to democracy.
Academic text (2011) -
My mother is Yoruba from Nigeria; she met my father here at the university.
Fiction book (1993) -
It's a spicy goat dish from Nigeria.
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The city of Nigeria has a rich history and diverse population.
Synonyms
A country in West Africa on the Gulf of Guinea
Compounds
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Nigeria comes from the large river Niger and originally meant the 'land of the Niger'. One common story links Niger to the Latin word niger ('black'), so you can remember Nigeria as the country named after the great river that runs through West Africa.