Benin City

Benin is a city of more than two million residents¹ in Edo State, Nigeria. Also called Benin City, it had over a million residents in 2000.² Among the buildings of the city is the Samuel Ogbemudia Stadium, used mostly for soccer. The majority are Edo speakers³ and are probably Christian.

Footnotes

(1) rounded 2009 estimate from world.gazeteer.com, accessed 11/11/2009.
(2) interpolation from 2009 estimate and estimated current annual growth rate of about 6.2%, both from world.gazetter.com, accessed 11/21/2009.
(3) Nigeria map 9 in Raymond G. Gordon, Jr., ed., Ethnologue Languages of the World, 15th ed. (SIL International, 2005).

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