Tureta
Sign in to saveTureta is a Local Government Area in Sokoto State, Nigeria. Its headquarters is in the town of Tureta. It shares a border with Zamfara State in the south and east. They are mainly Hausa people predominantly Burmawa. Islam is there main religion. Fishing and farming are the major occupations. Currently Dr Muhammad Danrabi Tureta is their newly appointed king title as sarkin Burmin tureta.
Key facts
- Settlement.official_name
- Tureta
- Settlement.settlement_type
- LGA and town
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Nigeria
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- State
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Sokoto State
- Settlement.leader_title
- Local Government Chairman
- Settlement.leader_name
- Aliyu Abubakar
- Settlement.unit_pref
- Imperial
- Settlement.area_total_km2
- 2383
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2006
- Settlement.population_total
- 68370
- Settlement.timezone
- WAT
- Settlement.utc_offset
- +1
- Settlement.mapframe
- yes
- Settlement.mapframe zoom
- 8
- Settlement.mapframe wikidata
- yes
- Settlement.mapframe marker
- village
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- local government area of Nigeria
- Country
- Nigeria
- Located in
- Sokoto State
- Population
- 68414
- Area
- 2383
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Climate
- References
Tureta is a Local Government Area in Sokoto State, Nigeria. Its headquarters is in the town of Tureta. It shares a border with Zamfara State in the south and east. They are mainly Hausa people predominantly Burmawa. Islam is there main religion. Fishing and farming are the major occupations. Currently Dr Muhammad Danrabi Tureta is their newly appointed king title as sarkin Burmin tureta.
Tureta has an area of 2,383 km and a population of 68,370 at the 2006 census.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tureta” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
On the map
2 mapped locations