Okene
Sign in to saveOkene is a town in the Nigerian state of Kogi. The town is based in a Local Government Area of the same name. Okene runs along the A2 highway. It had an area of 328 km2 and a population of 320,260 at the 2006 census.
Key facts
- Settlement.official_name
- Okene
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Municipality
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Okene Mountain.jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- A landscape view of Okene town, Kogi State Nigeria
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Nigeria
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- State
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Kogi
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- LGA
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Okene
- Settlement.leader_title
- Local Government Chairman
- Settlement.leader_name
- Eneni Ahmed Nuhu
- Settlement.unit_pref
- Metric
- Settlement.area_total_km2
- 328
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2006 Census
- Settlement.population_total
- 320,260
- Settlement.timezone
- WAT
- Settlement.utc_offset
- +1
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- city
- Country
- Nigeria
- Located in
- Kogi State
- Population
- 320260
- Area
- 328
- Elevation
- 384
- Image
- Okene Mountain.jpg
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Encyclopedic overview
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Okene is a town in the Nigerian state of Kogi. The town is based in a Local Government Area of the same name. Okene runs along the A2 highway. It had an area of 328 km2 and a population of 320,260 at the 2006 census.
The predominant people in Okene are the Ebira of central Nigeria and the Ebira language is spoken.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Okene” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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