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The rhomboidal territory of Eastern Nigeria covers some 29,484 square miles, or 8.3 per cent of the entire Republic of Nigeria (356,669 square miles), yet it supports 22 per cent or almost a quarter of the total population of the country. With a marked diversity of physical features, natural resources (both organic and inorganic), cultural groupings and settlement patterns, Eastern Nigeria in a sense epitomises the entire nation although it possesses certain geographical characteristics which are unique.
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For an authoritative study of the Niger River boundary, see J. R. V. Prescott, ‘Nigeria’s Regional Boundary Problems’, Geographical Review, xlix (1959), pp. 485–505.
R. A. Monkhouse, The Geology of Eastern Nigeria (Nsukka, 1966), p. 1. (Hereafter referred to as Eastern Nigeria.)
NEDECO, River Studies and Recommendations on Improvement of Niger and Benue (Amsterdam, 1959), Table 5,3.3-1, p. 488. (Hereafter referred to as River Studies.)
For a more scientific explanation of the processes of ‘laterisation’ and ‘ferruginisation’, see P. D. Jungerius, ‘The Environmental Background of Land Use in Nigeria’, Tijdschrift van het Koninklijk Nederlandsch Aardrijkskundig Genootschap, lxxxi (1964), pp. 422–4.
See R. A. Reyment, Aspects of the Geology of Nigeria (Ibadan, 1965).
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Floyd, B. (1969). General Aspects and Geology. In: Eastern Nigeria. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-00666-3_4
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