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Compare and contrast the eastern scarplands and western highlands under the following headings;
(a) Relief (b) people and population (c) settlement pattern (d) Agriculture

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Comparison of the Eastern Scarplands and the Western Highlands (Nigeria)

(a) Relief

Eastern Scarplands	Western Highlands
A series of cuestas and scarps of sedimentary rock (e.g. Udi/Enugu and Nsukka escarpments, Obudu and Mambilla plateaux). Steep scarp faces with gentler dip slopes.	An upland of hard, ancient crystalline (Basement Complex) rock with rounded hills, inselbergs and dissected plateaux (Yoruba/Western uplands).
Prone to severe gully erosion on the soft sedimentary rocks.	More resistant rocks; erosion is less severe, giving bold rocky outcrops.

(b) People and population

Eastern Scarplands	Western Highlands
Densely populated, inhabited mainly by the Igbo and related groups; very high rural population pressure.	Also well populated, inhabited mainly by the Yoruba; among the most urbanised areas of Nigeria.

(c) Settlement pattern

Eastern Scarplands	Western Highlands
Mainly dispersed/scattered rural settlements of small compounds spread over the land, with towns such as Enugu, Nsukka and Abakaliki.	Mainly nucleated/clustered settlements forming large traditional towns such as Ibadan, Abeokuta, Ife and Oyo.

(d) Agriculture

Eastern Scarplands	Western Highlands
Intensive small-scale farming of yam, cassava, oil palm, rice and vegetables on fragmented plots, hampered by erosion.	Farming of cocoa (chief cash crop), kola, oil palm, food crops (yam, maize, cassava), often on larger, more commercial holdings.

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