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Nigeria Terrain
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southern lowlands merge into central hills and plateaus; mountains in southeast, plains in north.
Resources
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natural gas, petroleum, tin, iron ore, coal, limestone, niobium, lead, zinc, arable land.
Natural Hazards
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periodic droughts; flooding.
Population
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135,031,164 note: estimates for this country explicitly take into account the effects of excess mortality due to AIDS; this can result in lower life expectancy, higher infant mortality and death rates, lower population and growth rates, and changes in the distribution of population by age and sex than would otherwise be expected (July 2007 est.).