Kagarko

Kagarko
LGA and town
Kagarko

Location in Nigeria

Coordinates: 9°27′0″N 7°41′0″E / 9.45000°N 7.68333°E / 9.45000; 7.68333Coordinates: 9°27′0″N 7°41′0″E / 9.45000°N 7.68333°E / 9.45000; 7.68333
Country  Nigeria
State Kaduna State
Time zone WAT (UTC+1)

Kagarko is a Local Government Area in Kaduna State, Nigeria. Its headquarters are in the town of Kagarko.

It has an area of 1,864 km² and a population of 240,943 at the 2006 census.It comprises about eleven districts which are, Shadalafiya, Katugal,Kushe, Jere, Dogon Kurmi,Kenyi,Kurmin Dangana, Kubacha,Aribi and Kagarko districts. The people of Kagarko Local government are predominantly Koro by tribe.The Koro people are very hard working and mostly farmers, about 70% of ginger produced in Kaduna State is from Kagarko Local Government.

The postal code of the area is 802.[1]

References

  1. "Post Offices- with map of LGA". NIPOST. Retrieved 2009-10-20.


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