This interesting city is the capital of Nigeria, ABUJA.
I want to deal with that issue because it´s important to know the capitals in the world and maybe you can compare European capitals with some of Africa. The area has a magnitude of 250 km² and in an area of ome km² live 729,7 inhabitants.
We compare this fact with the population density of Berlin, the capital of Germany:
Our successful capital has a area of 891,85 km² and the population density is 3.879 inhabitants.
You can see that Abuja isn´t so much full of people when you look at the population of Abuja (ca. 2.500.000 inhabitants) and it´s density in comparison to Berlin´s population (ca. 3.500.000 inhabitants).
Abuja is in the middle of Nigeria and also the capital of the Federal Capital Territory ( it´s an other form of a state. 
One part of the city has five districts and they are: Asokoro, Central, Garki, Maitama and Wuse.
The districts Asokoro and Maitama are really distinguished and there are a lot of noble, rich families. The other part of Abuja is designed with the districts: Dakibiyu, Durumi, Dutse, Gudu, Jabi, Jahi, Katampe, Kaura, Kukwaba, Mabushi, Utako, Wuye and Yado.
Some ring roads surround the districts and are in contact with the airport.
Before the year 1991 Lagos was the capital of Nigeria but then politicians wanted to build a new modern capital for getting more money and more tourists and a city was born that doesn´t seem to belong to the rest of Nigeria, Abuja. Some planned pedestrian routes are today´s empty area and slums changed into residential area. Poor people had to go and rich people found new villas. The world is unfair.
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