[ey-noo-goo] 
| a city in SE Nigeria. 172,000. |
| E·nu·gu (ā-nōō'gōō) A city of southeast Nigeria east of the Niger River. It developed as a coal-mining center in the early 1900s. Population: 653,000. |
Enugu
state, south-central Nigeria. It was created in 1991 from the eastern two-thirds of Anambra state. Enugu is bounded by the states of Kogi and Benue to the north, Cross River to the east, Abia to the south, and Anambra to the west. It includes most of the Udi-Nsukka Plateau, which rises to more than 1,000 feet (300 m). Enugu state is covered by open grassland, with occasional woodlands and clusters of oil palm trees. The Igbo (Ibo) constitute the majority of the state's population
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