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SOME USEFUL HINTS.
A. SOME ETHNIC GROUPS IN NIGERIA AND THEIR LOCATIONS
S/N ETHNIC GROUP LOCATION/STATE
1 Yoruba Osun, Oyo, Ondo, Ekiti, Ogun, Lagos, Kwara, Kogi
2. Igbo Abia, Anambra, Enugu, Ebonyi, Imo,
3. Hausa Kano, Kaduna, Katsina, Sokoto, Zamfara, Kebbi, Jigawa
4. Ibiobio Cross River state
5. Ijaw Rivers state
6. Efik Akwa Ibom state
7. Idoma Benue state
8. Urhobo Delta state
9. Igala Kogi state
10. Tiv Benue state
11. Itsekiri Delta state
12. Igbira/Ebira Kogi state
13. Kanuri Borno state
14. Gwari Niger and Kaduna states
15. Fulani Adamawa, Bauchi and Plateau states
B. GREAT INVENTORS
S/N GREAT INVENTORS INVENTIONS DATES
1. Alexander Grahama Bell Telephone 1876
2. Orville and Wilbur Wright Aeroplane 1903
3. John Logie Bair Television 1922
4. Carl Benz First motor car 1885
5. Joseph N. Niepce Photography 1826
6. Michael Faraday Electricity 1813
7. John Kutenberg The printing press 1456
8. William Fox Talbol Camera 1835
9. Marchese G Marcon Radio 1895
10. Gildden Sholes Typewriter 1867
11. Galileo Galilei Thermometer and Telescope
12. James Watt Staem engine




Countries of Africa
Country Capital Population
(2007 estimate) Area
(square miles) Area
(square kilometers)
Algeria Algiers 33,300,000 920,000 2,380,000
Angola Luanda 12,300,000 481,000 1,250,000
Benin Porto-Novo 8,080,000 43,500 113,000
Botswana Gaborone 1,640,000 225,000 582,000
Burkina Faso Ouagadougou 14,300,000 106,000 274,000
Burundi Bujumbura 8,390,000 10,700 27,800
Cameroon Yaoundé 18,100,000 184,000 475,000
Cape Verde Praia 424,000 1,560 4,030
Central African Republic Bangui 4,370,000 240,000 622,000
Chad N'Djamena 10,240,000 496,000 1,280,000
Comoros Moroni 711,000 720 1,860
Congo Brazzaville 3,800,000 132,000 342,000
Côte d'Ivoire Yamoussoukro 18,000,000 125,000 322,000
Democratic Republic of the Congo Kinshasa 64,600,000 905,000 2,340,000
Djibouti Djibouti 496,000 8,960 23,200
Egypt Cairo 80,300,000 385,000 998,000
Equatorial Guinea Malabo 551,000 10,800 28,100
Eritrea Asmara 4,910,000 46,800 121,000
Ethiopia Addis Ababa 76,500,000 438,000 1,130,000
Gabon Libreville 1,450,000 103,000 268,000
The Gambia Banjul 1,690,000 4,360 11,300
Ghana Accra 22,900,000 92,100 239,000
Guinea Conakry 9,950,000 94,900 246,000
Guinea-Bissau Bissau 1,470,000 13,900 36,100
Kenya Nairobi 36,900,000 225,000 583,000
Lesotho Maseru 2,010,000 11,700 30,400
Liberia Monrovia 3,190,000 38,200 99,100
Libya Tripoli 6,040,000 678,000 1,760,000
Madagascar Antananarivo 19,400,000 227,000 587,000
Malawi Lilongwe 13,600,000 45,700 118,000
Mali Bamako 12,000,000 479,000 1,240,000
Mauritania Nouakchott 3,270,000 398,000 1,030,000
Mauritius Port Louis 1,250,000 790 2,040
Morocco Rabat 33,800,000 175,000 454,000
Mozambique Maputo 20,900,000 309,000 799,000
Namibia Windhoek 2,060,000 318,000 824,000
Niger Niamey 12,900,000 489,000 1,270,000
Nigeria Abuja 135,000,000 357,000 924,000
Rwanda Kigali 9,910,000 10,200 26,300
São Tomé and Príncipe São Tomé 200,000 390 1,000
Senegal Dakar 12,500,000 76,000 197,000
Seychelles Victoria 81,900 180 450
Sierra Leone Freetown 6,140,000 27,700 71,700
Somalia Mogadishu 9,120,000 246,000 638,000
South Africa Pretoria (administrative);
Cape Town (legislative);
Bloemfontein (judicial) 44,000,000 471,000 1,220,000
Sudan Khartoum 42,300,000 967,000 2,510,000
Swaziland Mbabane 1,130,000 6,700 17,400
Tanzania Dar es Salaam (current capital);
Dodoma (future capital) 38,100,000 365,000 945,000
Togo Lomé 5,700,000 21,900 56,800
Tunisia Tunis 10,280,000 63,500 164,000
Uganda Kampala 30,300,000 93,100 241,000
Zambia Lusaka 11,500,000 291,000 753,000
Zimbabwe Harare 12,300,000 151,000 391,000

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