Measurements#
- Land area: 7,161 km² — 30th largest of 37 jurisdictions
- Local government areas: 17 — 25th of 37
- Population (2006 census, the last held): 3,257,298 — 22nd of 37
- Density: ~455 people per km² on 2006 figures — 7th of 37
Terrain#
The Udi and Nsukka escarpments over the Anambra coal basin — the geology on which the colonial state built Enugu, the railway to Port Harcourt, and the 1949 shootings.
References
Sources#
- National Bureau of Statistics, Nigeria Statistical Fact Sheets (land area)
- National Population Commission, 2006 Census, gazetted figures
- Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999, First Schedule Part I (LGA count)