Southern Nigeria

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cultural region geopolitical region

Southern Nigeria is the southern geopolitical and cultural region of Nigeria, encompassing diverse ethnic groups, major coastal cities, and significant economic hubs including much of the country’s oil-producing areas.

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Observed surface forms (5)

Surface form	Occurrences
southern Nigeria	3
South South Nigeria	2
Nigerian South geopolitical zone	1
South-South Nigeria	1
Southern Nigeria Protectorate	1

Statements (87)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	cultural region ⓘ geopolitical region ⓘ
borders	Northern Nigeria NERFINISHED ⓘ
climate	tropical rainforest climate ⓘ tropical savanna climate ⓘ
contains	Aba ⓘ Abeokuta ⓘ Abia State ⓘ Akure ⓘ Akwa Ibom State NERFINISHED ⓘ Anambra State NERFINISHED ⓘ Asaba ⓘ Awka ⓘ Bayelsa State NERFINISHED ⓘ Benin City ⓘ Calabar ⓘ Calabar ⓘ surface form: Calabar Port Cross River State NERFINISHED ⓘ Delta Niger Delta ⓘ Delta State ⓘ Ebonyi State ⓘ Edo State NERFINISHED ⓘ Ekiti State NERFINISHED ⓘ Enugu ⓘ Enugu State NERFINISHED ⓘ Ibadan ⓘ Imo State ⓘ Lagos ⓘ Apapa Port ⓘ surface form: Lagos Port Complex Lagos State ⓘ Niger Delta ⓘ Ogun State NERFINISHED ⓘ Ondo State NERFINISHED ⓘ Onitsha ⓘ Onne Port ⓘ Osogbo ⓘ Osun State NERFINISHED ⓘ Owerri ⓘ Oyo State NERFINISHED ⓘ Port Harcourt ⓘ Port Harcourt ⓘ surface form: Port Harcourt Port Rivers State NERFINISHED ⓘ Umuahia ⓘ Uyo ⓘ Warri ⓘ Yenagoa ⓘ major seaports of Nigeria ⓘ much of Nigeria's oil reserves ⓘ
country	Nigeria ⓘ
demographicCharacteristic	high population density ⓘ
economicRole	commercial hub of Nigeria ⓘ industrial hub of Nigeria ⓘ oil-producing region ⓘ
hasCoastlineOn	Atlantic Ocean ⓘ Gulf of Guinea ⓘ
hasPart	Eastern Nigeria ⓘ surface form: South East Nigeria South-South Nigeria ⓘ surface form: South South Nigeria Western Nigeria ⓘ surface form: South West Nigeria
historicalRegion	area of former Southern Nigeria Protectorate ⓘ
includes	major financial centre Lagos ⓘ
locatedIn	Nigeria ⓘ West Africa ⓘ
majorEthnicGroup	Anioma people ⓘ Edo people ⓘ Efik people ⓘ Ibibio people ⓘ Igbo people ⓘ Ijaw people ⓘ Ikwerre people ⓘ Isoko people ⓘ Itsekiri people ⓘ Urhobo people ⓘ Yoruba people ⓘ
officialLanguage	English ⓘ
partOf	Southern Nigeria self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Nigerian South geopolitical zone
religion	Christianity ⓘ Islam ⓘ traditional African religions ⓘ
timeZone	West Africa Time (WAT) ⓘ surface form: West Africa Time
urbanizationLevel	highly urbanized region ⓘ
utcOffset	+1 ⓘ
widelySpokenLanguage	Efik language ⓘ Ibibio language ⓘ Igbo people ⓘ surface form: Igbo Ijaw languages ⓘ Nigerian Pidgin ⓘ Yoruba ⓘ

Referenced by (17)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

British West Africa → includes → Southern Nigeria ⓘ

this entity surface form: Southern Nigeria Protectorate

Akwa Ibom State → locatedIn → Southern Nigeria ⓘ

Bayelsa State → locatedIn → Southern Nigeria ⓘ

Niger Delta conflict → locatedIn → Southern Nigeria ⓘ

this entity surface form: southern Nigeria

Rivers State → locatedIn → Southern Nigeria ⓘ

Yenagoa → locatedIn → Southern Nigeria ⓘ

Warri → locatedInArea → Southern Nigeria ⓘ

this entity surface form: southern Nigeria

Ogwashi-Ukwu → locatedInGeopoliticalZone → Southern Nigeria ⓘ

this entity surface form: South-South Nigeria

Edo State → locatedInRegion → Southern Nigeria ⓘ

Ogwashi-Ukwu → locatedInRegion → Southern Nigeria ⓘ

Eastern Nigeria → partOf → Southern Nigeria ⓘ

Southern Nigeria → partOf → Southern Nigeria self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Nigerian South geopolitical zone

Western Nigeria → partOf → Southern Nigeria ⓘ

Urhobo people → populationRegion → Southern Nigeria ⓘ

this entity surface form: southern Nigeria

Akwa Ibom State → region → Southern Nigeria ⓘ

this entity surface form: South South Nigeria

Bayelsa State → region → Southern Nigeria ⓘ

this entity surface form: South South Nigeria

Itsekiri people → region → Southern Nigeria ⓘ