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LOCATION AND SIZE. Benin is a slim, rectangular country situated in West Africa. Benin has a narrow 100-kilometer (62-mile) coastline along the Bight of Benin, in the Atlantic Ocean.The country is bordered to the west by Nigeria, to the north by Niger and Burkina Faso, and to the east by Togo.enin has a land area of 112,622 square kilometers (42,985 square miles), making it slightly smaller than the state of Pennsylvania. Both the capital, Porto-Novo, and Cotonou, the largest city, are located on the coast in the southeast of the country.
Located in West Africa, the country Nigeria derives its name from the Niger River. Flora Shaw, the colonial administrator of Britain, was the first person to coin this name in the nineteenth century. Neighboring Countries and Major cities. Nigeria is bounded by the countries of Benin, Niger, Chad, and Cameroon.Besides, some of the major cities of this nation, include, Lagos, Kano, Ibadan, Kaduna, Ogbomosho, Port Harcourt, Benin City, Maiduguri, Zaria, Aba, Jos, Ilorin, Oyo, Enugu, and Abeokuta.oils in Nigeria and in Africa usually are not of a good quality as in other parts of the world. Nevertheless, Nigerians have over the centuries employed certain agricultural methods like slash and burn, intercropping, and facile planting techniques to cope with the soil deficiency.