Abakaliki

Abakaliki is the capital of the Nigerian state of Ebonyi and is located in the southeast of Nigeria, about 40 km east of Enugu at the intersection of the streets of Enugu, Afikpo and Ogoja. One calculation according to the 2012, the city has 267 386 inhabitants.

Abakaliki is the seat of a university founded in 1996. Agricultural products that are traded in the city, are yams, cassava, rice and palm oil. In the area of Abakaliki to find deposits of limestone, lead and zinc, which have already been degraded in pre-colonial times. The Guinea worm, for its proliferation Abakaliki was formerly known, is fought successfully since the 1980s.

Abakaliki and its eastern environs constitute one of the 13 Local Government Areas ( LGA) of the state of Ebonyi with an area of ​​584.09 km ². In the previous 1991 census, the LGA had 133 065 inhabitants, which has a population density of 228 inhabitants per km ². In the city itself 83 651 inhabitants were counted.