In Nigeria, full information of population censuses are mainly presented at national and state levels, while those at smaller units such as LGAs or wards are neglected. This makes analysis of population such as population density to be restricted to only the national and state level, but the figures obtained from regional densities may be misleading and may obscure more of reality than it reveals because the larger the political unit for which crude or arithmetic population density is calculated, the less useful is the figure. ArcGIS 9.3 was used in this paper to map and create database for the population distribution and density for all the 112 LGAs in North-Eastern Nigeria. The study reve
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