Benue
Americannoun
noun
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a state of SE Nigeria. Capital: Makurdi. Pop: 4 219 244 (2006). Area: 34 059 sq km (13 150 sq miles)
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a river in W Africa, rising in N Cameroon and flowing west across Nigeria: chief tributary of the River Niger. Length: 1400 km (870 miles)
Example Sentences
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The boat was carrying traders returning from a fish market in Taraba state’s Ardo-Kola district late Saturday when it capsized on the Benue River, which is one of Nigeria’s largest, the national emergency services said.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 30, 2023
Settling around the confluence of the Benue and Niger Rivers in present-day Nigeria, the Nok initially used iron to fashion jewelry.
From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023
In October in Benue state, part of Nigeria’s agricultural heartland, farmer Abraham Hon looked out over water stretching to the horizon, covering some 20 hectares of his ruined rice fields.
From Reuters • Dec. 14, 2022
He can only count his losses as he looks over his 14 hectares of rice farm buried under the floodwaters in Benue, another affected state.
From BBC • Oct. 30, 2022
Benue was a kindly, solitary man, one of those rare people whose daemon was the same sex as himself.
From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman
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