Nigerian Geopolitical Zones Data

This library contains in JSON format, Nigerian states with their various geopolitical zones. Other data includes:

• Area (in Km2)
• Capital Cities
• Longitude & Latitude Coordinates
• State Motto
• Population Count
• Population Count Rank
• Year Created
• Zone

Installation

Package is available via npm:

npm install nigerian-geopolitical-zones

Usage

Example:

// Utils
import { getAllZones, getZoneData, getZoneByState } from 'nigerian-geopolitical-zones';

// All 36 states (plus. FCT) with their zones
getAllZones();

// Names of all zones
getZonesList();

// All states that fall in a zone
getZoneData('south east');
getZoneData('south-east');

// A state with zone data
getZoneByState('abia'); 

Data structure

Example:

// Zone interface
{
  areaKm2: string;
  capitalCity: string;
  coordinates: Coordinates;
  motto: string;
  population: number;
  populationRank: number | null;
  state: string;
  yearCreated: number;
  zone: string;
}

// Coordinates interface
{
  latitude: number;
  longitude: number
}

Contributions

1. Clone this repository
2. Create a branch
3. Make some changes
4. Test your changes
5. Push your branch and open a PR

Credits

The data was mostly sourced from Wikipedia and a number of other public sources across the internet.