Map of Nigeria

Nigeria is located in Africa. Its territory lies in the northern and eastern hemispheres, centred near 10.0° N, 8.0° E. It shares land borders with 4 countries — Benin, Cameroon, Chad and Niger — and also has its own coastline. Within Africa, a continent of 54 countries bordered by the Atlantic Ocean and the Indian Ocean, Nigeria is mapped here in full with its borders, capital and key facts.

Nigeria shares land frontiers with the following 4 countries. Select any neighbour to open its own map.

Nigeria covers about 923,768 km² (356,669 sq mi). That makes it the 31st-largest country in the world by area and the 14th-largest in Africa, larger by area than 40 of the continent’s 54 countries.

It is home to a population of roughly 223,800,000, the 6th-largest in the world and the 1st-largest in Africa, accounting for about 15% of the continent’s people. With that land area, Nigeria has an average population density of about 242 people per km². Among the 54 countries of Africa it stands 1st by population and 14th by area.

The seat of government is Abuja, and the official currency is the Nigerian naira (NGN, ₦), and the main official language is English. Traffic drives on the right, and the country observes the time zone UTC+01:00.

Nigeria carries the ISO country codes NG and NGA, dials on the international calling code +234 and uses the .ng internet domain.

Nigeria shares its land borders with 4 countries, each of which is mapped in full on this site. Listed from the most to the least populous, here is how they compare.

Its neighbours are Cameroon (capital Yaoundé, about 29,442,327 people), Niger (capital Niamey, about 26,312,034 people), Chad (capital N'Djamena, about 19,340,757 people) and Benin (capital Porto-Novo, about 13,224,860 people).

By area, Nigeria is larger than 2 of these neighbours and smaller than 2 of them, which places its size in context along its own frontiers. Open any neighbour above to see its capital, borders and full set of facts on its own map.

The interactive map above is centred on 10.0° N, 8.0° E and opens at zoom level 5, framing Nigeria within Africa. A marker pin sits at the country’s approximate geographic centre; drag the map or use scroll and pinch to move from a regional overview down to the streets of Abuja. The map is drawn from OpenStreetMap data, the same open dataset used across this site, so place names, roads and coastlines stay consistent from one country to the next.

Nigeria lies about 1,110 km from the equator, in the northern and eastern hemispheres of the globe. Zoom out to see how its coastline and land borders meet the wider region.

Nigeria keeps a single standard time zone, UTC+01:00. That figure is the country’s offset from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the modern reference that for everyday purposes matches Greenwich Mean Time, so local clocks sit +01:00 relative to UTC before any seasonal daylight saving change.

The official currency is the Nigerian naira (NGN, ₦).

The official language is English, which is what appears on signs, documents and many of the place labels you will see on the map.

For practical reference, vehicles drive on the right-hand side of the road, the international dialling code is +234 and websites commonly use the .ng internet domain.

In short, Nigeria is a coastal country in Africa, sharing land borders with 4 countries. Its capital is Abuja. Nigeria has a population of about 223,800,000 and covers around 923,768 km² (356,669 sq mi), ranking it 6th in the world by population and 31st by area. The interactive map, facts table and questions on this page bring those details together in one place for Nigeria.

The flag of Nigeria is composed of three equal vertical bands of green, white and green.

The flag of Nigeria is shown above as an emoji, rendered by your device’s own font; see it alongside every other nation on the flags of the world page.