ISBN: | 978-5-5138-3230-0 |
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Benin City, is a city (2006 est. pop. 1,147,188) and the capital of Edo State in southern Nigeria. It is a city approximately twenty-five miles north of the Benin River. It is situated 200 miles by road east of Lagos. Benin is the center of Nigeria`s rubber industry, but processing palm nuts for oil is also an important traditional industry.