The City of Abuja, Nigeria
Abuja officially replaced Lagos as Nigeria's capital city in 1991. 
Geographically located in the centre of the country, it's referred to as the Federal Capital Territory.
It is a purpose-built city with modern infrastructures and amenities and the 2006
census put its population at 1.4 million. The beauty of Abuja is in its breathtaking
landscape, rolling hills, isolated highlands and gaps with lowly dissected plains.
Abuja is at its lowest in the south-west, and it's washed here by the Gurara River
at an elevation of 70 meters above sea level. The land then rises, irregularly, east-
wards with Bwari-Aso range, the Gurara range, and Idon Kasa range. It is also
dotted by isolated inselbergs and its geography is defined by the Aso Rock, a 400
metre monolith left by water erosion. The Presidential Complex, National Assembly, Supreme Court and much of the town extend to the south of the rock. "Aso" means "victorious" in the language of the (now displaced)
Asokoro ("the people of victory"). Abuja is a relatively new city as it was planned, built and developed mainly in the 1980s. It is also one of the
the best and most expensive city in Africa, though few shanty-towns has sprung up in recent years.
Abuja covers a total area of 8,000 sq/km and it falls within the Guinea Savannah of the Middle Belt. It has a fair vegetation and relatively humid climate with lots of sunshine during the dry season (November - February). December and January is usually hazy due to the harmattan season (a strong wind that blows sand over West Africa creating a fog effect) followed by a rainy season from March to October.
