11,900 telephones;
stations--15 AM, 5 FM, 16 TV; satellite earth stations--1 Atlantic Ocean
INTELSAT, 1 Indian Ocean INTELSAT, and 4 domestic

_*_Defense Forces
_#_Branches: Army, Air Force, paramilitary Gendarmerie, paramilitary
Republican Guard, paramilitary Presidential Guard, paramilitary National
Police

_#_Manpower availability: males 15-49, 1,713,566; 923,634 fit for
military service; 90,801 reach military age (18) annually

_#_Defense expenditures: $20.6 million, 0.9% of GDP (1988)
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_*_Geography
_#_Total area: 923,770 km2; land area: 910,770 km2

_#_Comparative area: slightly more than twice the size of California

_#_Land boundaries: 4,047 km total; Benin 773 km, Cameroon 1,690 km,
Chad 87 km, Niger 1,497 km

_#_Coastline: 853 km

_#_Maritime claims:

Continental shelf: 200 m (depth) or to depth of exploitation;

Exclusive economic zone: 200 nm;

Territorial sea: 30 nm

_#_Disputes: demarcation of international boundaries in Lake
Chad, the lack of which has led to border incidents in the past, is
completed and awaiting ratification by Cameroon, Chad, Niger, and
Nigeria; Nigerian proposals to reopen maritime boundary negotiations and
redemarcate the entire land boundary have been rejected by Cameroon

_#_Climate: varies--equatorial in south, tropical in center, arid in
north

_#_Terrain: southern lowlands merge into central hills and plateaus;
mountains in southeast, plains in north

_#_Natural resources: crude oil, tin, columbite, iron ore, coal,
limestone, lead, zinc, natural gas

_#_Land use: arable land 31%; permanent crops 3%; meadows and pastures
23%; forest and woodland 15%; other 28%; includes irrigated NEGL%

_#_Environment: recent droughts in north severely affecting marginal
agricultural activities; desertification; soil degradation, rapid
deforestation

_*_People
_#_Population: 122,470,574 (July 1991), growth rate 3.0% (1991)

_#_Birth rate: 46 births/1,000 population (1991)

_#_Death rate: 16 deaths/1,000 population (1991)

_#_Net migration rate: NEGL migrants/1,000 population (1991)

_#_Infant mortality rate: 118 deaths/1,000 live births (1991)

_#_Life expectancy at birth: 48 years male, 50 years female (1991)

_#_Total fertility rate: 6.5 children born/woman (1991)

_#_Nationality: noun--Nigerian(s); adjective--Nigerian

_#_Ethnic divisions: more than 250 tribal groups; Hausa and Fulani
of the north, Yo