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Section: HUMAN GEOGRAPHY Candidates should be able to:
What this topic covers
- i. World population with particular ii. identify the characteristics of
- ii. Characteristics – birth and death rates, iv. identify the factors and problems of
- iii. Factors and patterns of population v. relate the types of migration to their
- iv. Factors and problems of population vi. account for the ways population constitute
- v. Types, causes and effects of migration
- i. Types and patterns: rural and urban, rural settlements;
- ii. Rural settlement: classification, factors of urban settlements;
- iii. Urban settlement – classification, v. identify the problems of urban centres;
- iv. Factor of settlement location and urban settlements.
- v. Problems of urban centres
- vi. Interrelationship between rural and
- i. Types of economic activities: primary, ii. differentiate between the types of
- ii. Agriculture: types, system, factors and iii. assess the importance and problems of
- iii. Manufacturing industries, types, iv. compare the types of manufacturing
- iv. Transportation and Communication types, of manufacturing industries;
- v. World trade: -factors and pattern of viii. differentiate between the modes of
- vi. Tourism: definition, importance, transportation;
- xi. relate the factors to the pattern of world
- xii. classify the major commodities of trade
- xiii. analyse tourism as an economic activity;
- xiv. identify the problems of tourism and
- i. Location, position, size, political division divisions of Nigeria;
- ii. Boundaries and neighbours Nigeria;
- iii. Physical setting: geology, relief, iii. identify the ethnic groups and their
- iv. Population: size, distribution, migration, their effects on human activities;
- v. Natural resources: types (minerals, soils, distribution;
- vii. identify the types of natural resources
- viii. indicate the uses and conservation of natural
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Source: official JAMB UTME Geography syllabus (IBASS, jamb.gov.ng). Reproduced for study use. Last checked: 17 Sept 2026.
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