# Nigeria

Pronunciation: say "ny-JEER-ee-uh" US /naɪˈd͡ʒɪɹiə/, UK /naɪˈd͡ʒɪə̯ɹiə/

## Proper noun

1. A country in West Africa, lying south of the nation of Niger, with Abuja as its capital and Lagos as its largest city.
   - Simple: A large country in West Africa, just south of Niger. Its capital is Abuja and its biggest city is Lagos.
   - _Nigeria's economy ranks among the largest in Africa, driven heavily by oil exports._
   - _Travelers flying into Nigeria often land at the busy airport in Lagos._

## Origin

Formed from Niger and the suffix -ia, the name was coined by the British journalist Flora Shaw in 1897.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/nigeria (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).