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Cross River might mean:

  • A For the Second World War frigate class, see River class frigate The Murray River in Australia A waterfall on the Ova da Fedoz, Switzerland A river is a large natural waterway. It is a specific term in the vernacular for large streams, stream being the umbrella term used in the... river that flows through West Africa is the region of western Africa generally considered to include these countries: Benin Burkina Faso Cameroon Côte dIvoire (Ivory Coast) Equatorial Guinea Gabon The Gambia Ghana Guinea Guinea-Bissau Liberia Mali Niger Nigeria Republic of the Congo (Congo-Brazzaville) Senegal Sierra Leone Togo Chad, Mauritania, and... West Africa
  • ... Cross River State in southeastern The Federal Republic of Nigeria is a country in West Africa. It borders on Benin in the west, Chad and Cameroon in the east, Niger in the north and the Gulf of Guinea in the south. Major cities include the capital Abuja, the former capital Lagos, Abeokuta, Ibadan, Port Harcourt... Nigeria which is named after the river above.

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Cross River - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (111 words)
Cross River is the main river in the Cross River State of southeastern Nigeria.
The Cross River drains into the Bight of Biafra in the extreme southeastern corner of Nigeria's coastline.
The Cross River forms a boundary between two tropical moist forest ecoregions, the Cross-Niger transition forests which lie west of the river, between the Cross and Niger rivers, and the Cross-Sanaga-Bioko coastal forests, which lie to the east between the Cross River and the Sanaga River of Cameroon.
Cross River State - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (189 words)
NG-CR Cross River is a coastal state in southeastern Nigeria, bordering Cameroon to the east.
Its capital is at Calabar, and it is named for the Cross River, which passes through the state.
The state government is striving to make Cross River the tourism hub of the West African coast via the Tinapa resort project.Cruise ships are eventually expected to bring in large number of tourists to enjoy the Tinapa business resort.
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