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GEO MYSTERY #004
Satellite image — can you identify this place?

🛰️ Can you identify this place?

You have 3 clues.

  1. Clue 1: This landscape is in northern Nigeria, in one of the country's important agricultural areas.
  2. Clue 2: Look at the long, unusually straight features crossing the farmland. Ask yourself: Could these be natural drainage channels? Or are you looking at infrastructure designed to move water?
  3. Clue 3: The landscape is associated with a major irrigation system that uses stored water to support agricultural production.
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