Measurements#
- Land area: 20,131 km² — 20th largest of 37 jurisdictions
- Local government areas: 44 — 1st of 37
- Population (2006 census, the last held): 9,383,682 — 1st of 37
- Density: ~466 people per km² on 2006 figures — 6th of 37
Terrain#
Sudan savannah on the Kano close-settled zone — the most intensively farmed dryland in West Africa, worked continuously for over a thousand years. Most populous state at the 2006 census.
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)