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Gumel

local government area of Nigeria
AdministrativeArea local_government_area_of_nigeria Q1023716

Facts

10 properties

Identity

Instance of
local government area of Nigeria
Inception
1700[5]
Official name
gumel[11]

Location

Country
Nigeria[3]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 12.633°, 9.400°, 🗺️ 12.638°, 9.401°[6][7]
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Jigawa State[2]

Population and size

Population
+107161[8]

Codes

Postal code
732102[4]
More facts +2
Capital of
Gumel Emirate[10]
Office held by head of government
chairperson[9]
🏷️ Also known as
en Gumel
🔖 Identifiers · 9
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Gumel Mosque.jpg ↗
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
place/Gumel
Freebase ID
/m/07fp2h
GNS Unique Feature ID
11853075
GeoNames ID
2340091, 8634244
INaturalist place ID
39570
OpenStreetMap relation ID
3703245
Who's on First ID
421178213
Wolfram Language entity code
Entity["AdministrativeDivision", {"Gumel", "Jigawa", "Nigeria"}]

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🔗 Connections
Country 1
Nigeria
Instance of 1
local government area of Nigeria
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Jigawa State
Located in time zone 1
UTC+01:00
Office held by head of government 1
chairperson
← Contains the administrative territorial entity 1
Jigawa State
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Summary

Gumel is a local government area of Nigeria[1].

Related Entities

Nigeria

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . GEOnet Names Server. wikidata.org.
  2. [2] ↑ . GEOnet Names Server. wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . GEOnet Names Server. wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . jigawastate.gov.ng. Retrieved . jigawastate.gov.ng. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 5w ago · VIGNERON · 2026-09-30 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['ca', 'ceb', 'commons', 'de', 'en', 'es', 'ff', 'fr', 'ha', 'it', 'kai', 'lt',
    Located in time zone → —
    Sitelink count → 20
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/57069|batch #57069]]: redundant value, already present at higher administrative level"
  2. 23w ago · Muktee1494 · 2026-05-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Pronunciation audio → Gumel.ogg
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Pronunciation audio: Gumel.ogg"
  3. 24w ago · Shem.iz · 2026-05-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Coordinate location → {'lat': 12.633333333333, 'lon': 9.4}, {'lat': 12.638333333333, 'lon': 9.4013888888889}
    Inception → +1700-00-00T00:00:00Z
    Inception → —
    Population → {'amount': '+107161'}
    + 12 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbeditentity-update-languages-short:0||ml */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/32649|batch #32649]]: nig-dml-f3"
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