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Metropolis is a city and the county seat in Massac County, Illinois, United States. It is located by the Ohio River. As of the 2020 census, it had a population of 5,969, [2] down from 6,537 in 2010. [3] Metropolis is part of the Paducah, KY-IL Metropolitan Statistical Area in Southern Illinois.
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.
The original alignment followed (from south–north) what used to be part of IL 1, IL 140, IL 25, IL 44, IL 51, and IL 46 before terminating at US 12. [5] These state routes were eventually either truncated or removed as of 1935. [6] That same year, US 45 was extended north from Des Plaines, Illinois to Michigan.
Katsina State was created in 1987 when it was split from Kaduna State at the regime of General Ibrahim Babangida. With over 5,800,000 residents as of 2006, Katsina State is the fifth most populous state in the country, despite the fact that it only ranks 17th out of 36 states in terms of area.
The name Dutsin-ma was derived from a hunter's name that use to live on the main rock that is located at the heart of the town decades ago, his name was MA, and rock means (Dutsi) in the Hausa language, so people started calling the rock as Dutsin-ma, then peoples started coming and dwelling near and around the rock due to the availability of water.
Massac County is a county in the U.S. state of Illinois. According to the 2020 census, it had a population of 14,169. [1] Established in 1843 and named for a French fort founded in the 18th century, its county seat is Metropolis. [2] Massac County is included in the Paducah, KY-IL Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Illinois Route 145 is a north–south state road in southern Illinois. It splits off from U.S. Route 45 near Metropolis (across the Ohio River from Paducah, Kentucky) and runs north, rejoining U.S. 45 in Harrisburg. This is a distance of 43.47 miles (69.96 km). [1]
The North West (often hyphenated to the North-West) is the one of the six geopolitical zones of Nigeria representing both a geographic and political region of the country's northwest.