Nitro group is meta directing, explain.

The nitro group (-NO₂) is considered a meta-directing group in electrophilic aromatic substitution reactions due to its electron-withdrawing nature. This effect is a result of the nitro group's ability to pull electron density away from the aromatic ring through both inductive and resonance effects.

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