The proposed Biafran territory – subject to an initial referendum and perpetual constitutional right for its members to secede - is about 29,400 square miles

Proposed Biafran Borders

Biafran independence campaigns intend to conduct a referendum to determine who wants to be included in the new republic.  Campaigners are hopeful that the boundaries of the republic will match those given below:

• West: By the lower reaches of the River Niger and its Delta

• East: By the Obudu plateau and the Highlands of Oban and Ikom

• South: By the Bight of Biafra

• North: by an administrative boundary following, approximately, the 7 degree North latitude