Stringall, S. C. and Broyles, D. (2000). Nigeria Travel Reference Map 1:900,000, Vancouver: ITMB Publishing Ltd. ISBN 15534113512 Additional information:
-- A. B. 10:55, 22 July 2006 (UTC)
what do i do on this page, click edit and write it should be deleted???
The NGA (National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency) maintains geographic data for "places" outside the U.S. as part of their function preparing maps and charts for the U.S. Government. (NGA-type data for the U.S. is maintained by some domestic federal agency, probably in the Dept. of the Interior). Data files in zip format for just about every country are available at NGA's Names Files of Selected Countries page. They also list the number of places catalogued by "country".
The following is a list of uninhabited areas with the number of NGA "places" in their file:
-- A. B. 02:26, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
I downloaded NGA's file of 43,229 "places" in Nigeria and pulled out the 55 places within 16 km (10 mi.) of Gnaa. I then started to look briefly at the fallingrain.com data for these places. I did not get through even the places beginning with "A" before noticing a pattern in the population numbers. I've linked to the individual fallingrain.com page for each place so you can see for yourself:
"Place" | Lat. | Long. | Km to Gnaa | Population |
---|---|---|---|---|
Abuni | 8° 11' N | 9° 3' E | 13.1 | 6137 |
Adudu | 8° 20' N | 9° 11' E | 13.3 | 6137 |
Anuku | 8° 10' N | 9° 5' E | 14.9 | 6137 |
Arugagwu | 8° 21' N | 9° 12' E | 15.6 | 6137 |
Aondu | 8° 25' N | 9° 6' E | 13.5 | 7340 |
Ayeso | 8° 25' N | 9° 6' E | 13.5 | 7340 |
Abagh | 8° 20' N | 9° 1' E | 6.6 | 9290 |
Adashu | 8° 20' N | 9° 1' E | 6.6 | 9290 |
Adudu | 8° 18' N | 9° 0' E | 7.3 | 9290 |
Ajav | 8° 18' N | 9° 1' E | 5.5 | 9290 |
Avesegh | 8° 18' N | 9° 1' E | 5.5 | 9290 |
Adam | 8° 18' N | 8° 58' E | 11.0 | 12928 |
Agir | 8° 20' N | 8° 57' E | 13.3 | 15533 |
Agor | 8° 16' N | 9° 8' E | 8.2 | 15941 |
Here are the 41 other "places" within 16 km (10 mi.) of Gnaa that I did not bother to check:
-- A. B. 03:49, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
Looking at the sample (above) of 14 places, if we assume all 55 places (within 16 km) that aren't rivers average about 8,000 people each , then that would give the metropolitan Gnaa area a population over 400,000 and a density of over 500 people/sq. km. (about 40% that of
Lagos State, the location of the Africa's second largest
city). 500 people/sq. km. would give Gnaa about the same the population density as
Houston, Texas (521 people/sq. km.).
See if you can spot this 400,000 person metropolitan area on this Google image when you click in to maximum zoom -- I just see forests and fields.
Take a second look at fallingrain.com's page for Gnaa -- they don't claim Gnaa has 6559 people. Instead, they're estimating that 6559 people live within 7 km. of a place called Gnaa. That's a 154 sq. km. area, so the population density would only be 43 people per sq. km.
Doesn't sound like a town.-- A. B. 04:18, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
"Has anyone checked the Nigerian government records? Almost every country has a website: even poverty-stricken Ethiopia has an abstract of its statistical information online. I would imagine that the Nigerian census agency has a website, & the necessary information to provide a decisive answer might lie there."
Towns are encyclopedic, places are not.
Nobody has proven that Gnaa is a town.
Fallingrain is not necessarily wrong -- it's being misinterpreted.
Here's what fallingrain.com actually says:
This is being repeatedly misinterpreted to mean Gnaa is a town of 6559 people -- that's not what fallingrain is saying:
Who gets to be mayor? -- A. B. 14:57, 24 July 2006 (UTC)