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Nigeria is the most populous country in Africa with more than 236 million people, making it the sixth most populous nation on Earth. This vast population is spread across a territory that covers an area of 923,768 square kilometers.
Nigeria gained full independence from the United Kingdom on the 1st of October 1960, as the Federation of Nigeria with Abubakar Tafawa Balewa as its Prime Minister. The country retained the British monarch, Elizabeth II, as nominal head of state and Queen of Nigeria at that time.
The Nigerian Civil War began on the 6th of July 1967 and ended in January 1970 after a 30-month conflict. Estimates of the number of dead in the former Eastern Region during the 30-month civil war range from one to three million.
The three largest ethnic groups in Nigeria are the Hausa in the north, Yoruba in the west, and Igbo in the east. Together these groups constitute over 60% of the total population of more than 250 ethnic groups.
The modern state of Nigeria took its present territorial shape with the merging of the Southern Nigeria Protectorate and the Northern Nigeria Protectorate on the 1st of January 1914. This union created the Colony and Protectorate of Nigeria under British rule.
Bola Tinubu is the current president of Nigeria and he was inaugurated on the 29th of May 2023. He won the disputed 2023 presidential election with 36.61% of the vote.