Zamfara State
Facts
25 properties- Instance of
- state of Nigeria
- Inception
- October 1, 1996[31]
- Official website
- zamfarastate.net, zamfara.gov.ng[32][33]
- Coordinate location
- 🗺️ 12.167°, 6.250°
- Area
- +39762[41]
- Contains the administrative territorial entity
- Anka, Bakura, Birnin Magaji/Kiyaw, Bukkuyum, Kaura Namoda, Gusau, Gummi, Tsafe, Bungudu, Maradun, Maru, Talata Mafara, Shinkafi, Zurmi[13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26]
- Different from
- Zamfara[40]
- Executive body
- executive council of Zamfara State[28]
- Geoshape
- 🗺️ View shape: Nigeria/Zamfara
- Head of government
- Dauda lawal[4]
- Legislative body
- Zamfara State House of Assembly[27]
- Native label
- Zamfara State[39]
- Office held by head of government
- Governor of Zamfara State[37]
- P14541
- 4Q18Sx[45]
- Population
- 5.5M (3.3M–5.5M, n=3)[34][35][36]⚖ sources disagree Wikidata 3,278,873 · 4,515,427 · 5,482,423 GeoNames 5,833,500 edition 2026-09-26 · CC BY 4.0 ↗
- Postal code
- postcode.com.ng[29]
- Replaces
- Sokoto State[38]
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- Shares border with
- Katsina State, Kaduna State, Niger State, Kebbi State, Sokoto State[8][9][10][11][12]
- GND ID
- 4511507-2
- Image (Wikimedia Commons)
- Nomadic settlement in Zamfara State.jpg ↗
- BBC Things ID
- 39bdfb64-b820-4641-87fd-8910c1ce8e3b
- Brockhaus Enzyklopädie online ID
- zamfara
- Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) ID
- 449272
- FIPS 10-4 (countries and regions)
- NI57
- Freebase ID
- /m/06xjrl
- GNS Unique Feature ID
- 9098622
- GeoNames ID
- 2595349
- Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names ID
- 7594754
- HASC
- NG.ZA
- INaturalist place ID
- 11441
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- ISO 3166-2 code
- NG-ZA
- Mindat locality ID
- 158294
- Museum-digital place ID
- 34160
- NE.se ID
- zamfara
- National Library of Israel J9U ID
- 987007469767405171
- OpenStreetMap relation ID
- 3706956
- OpenWeatherMap city ID
- 2595349
- Quora topic ID
- Zamfara-State
- Topic's main category
- Category:Zamfara State
- Who's on First ID
- 85675439
- Yale LUX ID
- place/1509b366-2989-4629-887d-4ff53fee6ba8
Contained subdivisions 22
Contains the administrative territorial entity 14
People born here 5
Shares border with 5
← Shares border with 5
← Country of origin 2
Belongs to 1
Capital 1
Continent 1
Country 1
Instance of 1
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Located in this place 1
Located in time zone 1
Official language 1
Owned entities 1
Replaces 1
Things located in country 1
Topic's main category 1
← Capital of 1
← Category's main topic 1
← Contains the administrative territorial entity 1
← SNARC ID 1
← Work location 1
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Summary
Zamfara State is a state of Nigeria[1].
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served-tier precision 80.7% [76.2, 84.5] · rated rows currently served n=342 · entailment-gated at 0.85 · measured 2026-09-29 · re-scored every 10 min, demoted at the half-hourly fold
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evidence “Zamfara state has bought no less than 25 armoured personnel carriers, including specialised tactical and armoured Toyota Buffalo trucks.” leadership.ng · read source
evidence “Operation FANSAN YAMMA was launched to dismantle terrorist and bandit networks across the North-west, with Sokoto, Zamfara and Katsina forests identified as major hideouts used for attacks and kidnappings.” thisdaylive.com · read source