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Sokoto State

State in the northern part of Nigeria
AdministrativeArea state_of_nigeria Q503941

Facts

24 properties
Instance of
state of Nigeria
Inception
February 3, 1976[29]
Country
Nigeria[3]
Official website
www.sokotostate.gov.ng, sokotostate.gov.ng[30][31]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 13.083°, 5.250°
Area
+25973[37]
Capital
Sokoto[6]
Contains the administrative territorial entity
Binji, Bodinga, Dange Shuni, Sabon Birni, Kware, Rabah, Kebbe, Isa, Illela, Gwadabawa, Gudu, Goronyo, Gada, Sokoto South, Sokoto North, Silame, Shagari, Tambuwal, Tangaza, Tureta, Wamako, Yabo, Wurno[11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24]
Continent
Africa[5]
Different from
Sokoto Caliphate[36]
Executive body
executive council of Sokoto State[26]
Geoshape
🗺️ View shape: Nigeria/Sokoto
Head of government
Alhaji Ahmad Aliyu[4]
Language used
Nigerian Fulfulde[38]
Legislative body
Sokoto State House of Assembly[25]
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Nigeria[2]
Located in time zone
UTC+01:00[28]
⚖ sources disagree Wikidata UTC+01:00 GeoNames Africa/Lagos edition 2026-09-26 · CC BY 4.0 ↗
Named after
Sokoto River[10]
Office held by head of government
Governor of Sokoto State[34]
Official language
English[7]
Population
+3702676, +4998090[32][33]
⚖ sources disagree Wikidata 3,702,676 · 4,998,090 GeoNames 6,391,000 edition 2026-09-26 · CC BY 4.0 ↗
Postal code
postcode.com.ng[27]
Replaces
North-Western State[35]
Shares border with
Zamfara State, Kebbi State[8][9]
🏷️ Also known as
en Sokoto State en labari sokoto en Sokoto en Sokoto, Nigeria ar سقطو ar صكتو ar ولاية صكتو cs Sokoto (stát) de NG-SO el Σοκότο fa ایالت سوکوتو fr État de Sokoto hi सोकोटो राज्य ja ソコト州 ko 소코토주 pt Estado de Sokoto ro Statul Sokoto ru Сокото th รัฐโซโกโตะ tr Sokoto Eyaleti
🔖 Identifiers · 24
GND ID
235722-7
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Sokoto market 2006.jpg ↗
BBC Things ID
932ce66b-0d66-4a09-b512-5b035f2a81a0
Bibliothèque nationale de France ID
120031264
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
place/Sokoto-state-Nigeria
FIPS 10-4 (countries and regions)
NI51, NI33
Freebase ID
/m/06xjr6
GNS Unique Feature ID
-2026915
GeoNames ID
2322907
Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names ID
1001959
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID
sokoto-0
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID (former scheme)
0063282
Show all 24 identifiers +12
Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID
Sokoto_-_delstat_i_Nigeria
HASC
NG.SO
INaturalist place ID
11463
ISO 3166-2 code
NG-SO
Lex ID
Sokoto
Mindat locality ID
158293
MusicBrainz area ID
27299bc5-6f74-4c98-86b9-029a2a4a827c
OpenStreetMap relation ID
3707368
Quora topic ID
Sokoto-State
Topic's main category
Category:Sokoto State
Who's on First ID
85675433
Yale LUX ID
place/015702e1-4dfe-4bb2-b978-8a1bfab16e7a

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🔗 Connections
Contained subdivisions 34
Hausa people, Sokoto, Sokoto Caliphate, Binji, Kebbe, Tureta, Bodinga, Gudu +26 more
Contains the administrative territorial entity 23
Binji, Kebbe, Tureta, Bodinga, Gudu, Tambuwal, Tangaza, Dange Shuni +15 more
People born here 3
Aisha Abubakar, Aliyu Abubakar, Joe El
Located in this place 2
Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Iconic Open University, Sokoto
Shares border with 2
Kebbi State, Zamfara State
Things located in country 2
Goronyo Dam, list of cities and towns in Sokoto State
← Replaces 2
Kebbi State, Zamfara State
← Shares border with 2
Kebbi State, Zamfara State
Belongs to 1
list of capitals of states of Nigeria
Capital 1
Sokoto
Continent 1
Africa
Country 1
Nigeria
Different from 1
Sokoto Caliphate
Instance of 1
state of Nigeria
Language used 1
Nigerian Fulfulde
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Nigeria
Located in time zone 1
UTC+01:00
Named after 1
Sokoto River
Official language 1
English
Replaces 1
North-Western State
Topic's main category 1
Category:Sokoto State
← Capital of 1
Sokoto
← Category combines topics 1
Category:Populated places in Sokoto State
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Sokoto State
← Contains the administrative territorial entity 1
Nigeria
← Headquarters location 1
Saisa University of Medical Sciences and Technology, Sokoto
← Indigenous to 1
Nigerian Fulfulde
← Replaced by 1
North-Western State
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Summary

Sokoto State is a state of Nigeria[1].

Related Entities

Iconic Open University, Sokoto Nigeria Northwest University, Sokoto Saisa University of Medical Sciences and Technology, Sokoto Usmanu Danfodiyo University

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Direct Wikidata claims

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  31. [32] ↑ . web.archive.org. web.archive.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  32. [33] ↑ . nigerianstat.gov.ng. nigerianstat.gov.ng. Provenance: wikidata.org.
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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. 22w ago · King ChristLike · 2026-05-28 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Head of government → Alhaji Ahmad Aliyu
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Head of government: Alhaji Ahmad Aliyu"
  2. 24w ago · Shem.iz · 2026-05-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Capital → Sokoto
    Coordinate location → {'lat': 13.083333333333, 'lon': 5.25}
    Inception → +1976-02-03T00:00:00Z
    Legislative body → Sokoto State House of Assembly
    + 30 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
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