Country size comparison

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Cameroon is about 1.9 times smaller than Nigeria.

Nigeria is approximately 923,768 sq km, while Cameroon is approximately 475,440 sq km, making Cameroon 51.47% the size of Nigeria. Meanwhile, the population of Nigeria is ~225.1 million people (195.8 million fewer people live in Cameroon).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Nigeria vs. Cameroon uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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Be 19.6% less likely to be literate in Nigeria
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Nigeria is 16.3% cheaper than Cameroon overall
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Moving from Cameroon to Nigeria · UN DESA 2020
52,489 people born in Cameroon live in Nigeria.
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