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Katsina is a Local Government Area and the capital city of Katsina State, in northern Nigeria. [1]Located some 260 kilometres (160 mi) east of the city of Sokoto and 135 kilometres (84 mi) northwest of Kano, close to the border with Niger Republic, in 2016, Katsina's estimated population was estimated at 429,000.
Map of Nigerian states by population density. The following table presents a listing of Nigeria's 36 states ranked in order of their total population based on the 2006 Census figures, [1] as well as their 2019 projected populations, which were published by the National Bureau of Statistics. [2]
In 1987, Katsina State was created from the northern portion of Kaduna State. Since the mid-2010s, Katsina has been one of the Nigerian states hit hardest by local banditry and terrorism. [7] In 2020, over 300 children were kidnapped by the terrorist group Boko Haram in the town of Kankara. [8] [9]
Katsina: 0.431 33 Sokoto: 0.397 34 Zamfara: 0.392 35 Bauchi: 0.372 36 Jigawa: 0.371 37 Kebbi: 0.366 List (2016, UNDP) Nigerian states by Human Development Index as of ...
An urban area is a human settlement with high population density and infrastructure of a built environment. This section lists contiguous urban areas in Nigeria, with a population of at least 500,000. The figures here have been taken from Demographia's "World Urban Areas" study in 2016. Demographia uses maps, satellite photographs to estimate ...
The following table lists fully defined incorporated cities in Nigeria, with a population of at least 100,000, as declared by the Nigerian National Population Commission in the 2006 National census. [16]
It is the headquarters of the Katsina South senatorial district, ... and a population of 225,571 at the 2006 census and 570,110 according to 2016 estimate. The ...
Rank State GDP (tril. ₦) GDP (bil. US$) GDP PPP (bil. int$) GDP per capita (US$) GDP per capita PPP (int$) 1 Lagos State: ₦41.17 102.01 266.55 6,614