Potiskum
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Key facts
- Settlement.official_name
- Potiskum
- Settlement.other_name
- Pataskuma, Pataskum
- Settlement.settlement_type
- LGA
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Nigeria
- Settlement.pushpin_mapsize
- 250
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location in Nigeria
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- State
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Yobe State
- Settlement.government_type
- Democracy
- Settlement.leader_title
- Local Government Chairman
- Settlement.established_title
- Local Government
- Settlement.unit_pref
- Metric
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2006 census
- Settlement.population_total
- 204,866
- Settlement.population_est
- 322,100
- Settlement.pop_est_as_of
- 2022
- Settlement.population_blank1_title
- Ethnicities
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- local government area of Nigeria
- Part of
- North East
- Country
- Nigeria
- Located in
- Yobe State
- Continent
- Africa
- Population
- 483000
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00
- Shares border with
- Bauchi State
- Image
- A bright sunny day at Potiskum Northeast Nigeria.jpg
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- Commons category
- Potiskum
- postal code
- 622101
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Encyclopedic overview
12 sectionsContents
- Traditional Emirate
- Government
- Economy
- Potiskum Cattle Market
- Population
- Demography
- Potiskum airstrip
- Boko Haram attacks
- Climate
- See also
- Notable people
- References
thumb|Goat and Sheep market in potiskum
thumb|Potiskum cattle market Potiskum (also Pataskum) is a local government area and city in Yobe State northeastern part of Nigeria. It's the largest, most populous and fastest growing city in Yobe State. Of the native languages in Yobe State, Potiskum is home to several major groups which include the Karai-Karai, Ngizim and Hausa-Fulani. It is on the A3 highway at . It has an area of .
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Potiskum” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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