Yenegoa
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Yenagoa is a Local Government Area and capital city of Bayelsa State, Southern Nigeria. It is located in the Niger Delta region of the country at coordinates .
Key facts
- Settlement.official_name
- Yenagoa
- Settlement.other_name
- YELGA
- Settlement.imagesize
- 300px
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Nigeria
- Settlement.pushpin_mapsize
- 250
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location in Nigeria
- Settlement.seat_type
- Headquarters
- Settlement.seat
- Yenagoa
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- State
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Bayelsa State
- Settlement.government_type
- Local Government Council
- Settlement.leader_title
- Local Government Chairman
- Settlement.leader_name
- Toby Andy (PDP)
- Settlement.unit_pref
- Metric
- Settlement.area_total_km2
- 706.7
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2024 est
- Settlement.population_total
- 798,466
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- local government area of Nigeria
- Country
- Nigeria
- Located in
- Bayelsa State
- Continent
- Africa
- Population
- 352285
- Area
- 1698
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00
- Capital of
- Bayelsa State
- Image
- High Court of Justice, Yenogoa, Bayelsa state.jpg
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- inception
- 1996-10-01
- postal code
- 569101
- Commons category
- Yenagoa
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Yenagoa is a Local Government Area and capital city of Bayelsa State, Southern Nigeria. It is located in the Niger Delta region of the country at coordinates .
The LGA has an area of 706 km2 and an estimated population of 798,466 at 2024.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Yenegoa” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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