<Tr> <Th> ISO 3166 code </Th> <Td> NG </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Internet TLD </Th> <Td>. ng </Td> </Tr> <P> The Federal Republic of Nigeria / naɪˈdʒɪəriə / (listen), commonly referred to as Nigeria, is a federal republic in West Africa, bordering Benin in the west, Chad and Cameroon in the east, and Niger in the north . Its coast in the south lies on the Gulf of Guinea in the Atlantic Ocean . It comprises 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory, where the capital, Abuja is located . Nigeria is officially a democratic secular country . </P> <P> Modern - day Nigeria has been the site of numerous kingdoms and tribal states over the millennia . The modern state originated from British colonial rule beginning in the 19th century and the merging of the Southern Nigeria Protectorate and Northern Nigeria Protectorate in 1914 . The British set up administrative and legal structures whilst practising indirect rule through traditional chiefdoms . Nigeria became a formally independent federation in 1960 . It experienced a civil war from 1967 to 1970 . It then alternated between democratically elected civilian governments and military dictatorships until it achieved a stable democracy in 1999, with the 2011 presidential elections considered the first to be reasonably free and fair . </P>

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