Abuja

//əˈbuːd͡ʒə// name

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  1. 1
    The capital city of Nigeria; lying in the Federal Capital Territory in the North Central geopolitical zone.

    "Abuja, Nigeria’s capital city, rises out of the Sahel like a modernist apparition. The avenues are clean and broad, and the government buildings are imposing, with that soulless and vaguely fascistic air common to capital cities from Washington, D.C., to Brasília."

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capital of nigerianigerian capital

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"Abuja is the capital of Nigeria."

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