Abuja Federal Capital Territory

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• constituteproject.org · checked Oct 12, 2026 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 (as amended), read 2026-10-12: s. 3(1) lists 36 states; s. 3(4) defines the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja separately (Part II of the First Schedule); s. 297 creates the FCT and vests all its land in the Government of the Federation; s. 298 makes it the capital and seat of the Government of the Federation; s. 299 vests its legislative powers in the National Assembly and its executive powers in the President, who may delegate them to a Minister (s. 302). Kind changed from territory (coarse adm1 label) to federal_district, the kind used for us-dc, br-df and mx-cmx. For: Abuja Federal Capital Territory (name, type and address code)
• github.com · checked Oct 12, 2026 geoBoundaries (Runfola et al.) gbOpen NGA ADM1 (simplified GeoJSON; boundary year 2022, build Dec 12, 2023; underlying source: GRID3, licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0); gbOpen CC BY 4.0), read 2026-10-12: name and outline of this first-level division. Code: ISO 3166-2 NG-FC from Debian iso-codes (salsa.debian.org/iso-codes-team/iso-codes, data/iso_3166-2.json), matched by name, cross-checked with Natural Earth 10m admin-1 (public domain). For: Abuja Federal Capital Territory (name, type and address code)
• github.com · checked Oct 12, 2026 geoBoundaries (Runfola et al.) gbOpen NGA ADM1 simplified GeoJSON (boundary year 2022, build Dec 12, 2023; source GRID3; gbOpen CC BY 4.0), read 2026-10-12: outline, made valid with ST_MakeValid; flags de_jure=t de_facto=t. For: Abuja Federal Capital Territory boundary