Kafin Hausa

Kafin Hausa is a Local Government Area of Jigawa State, Nigeria. Its headquarters are in the town of Kafin Hausa.

Kafin Hausa
LGA and town
Country Nigeria
StateJigawa State
Government
  Local Government ChairmanMuhammad Saminu Yahaya (APC)
Time zoneUTC+1 (WAT)

It has an area of 1,380 km2 and a population of 271,058 at the 2006 census.

The postal code of the area is 731.[1]

The Hausa language and Fulani language, now extinct, were formerly spoken in Kafin Hausa.[2]

References

  1. "Post Offices- with map of LGA". NIPOST. Archived from the original on 2009-10-07. Retrieved 2009-10-20.
  2. Blench, Roger (2019). An Atlas of Nigerian Languages (4th ed.). Cambridge: Kay Williamson Educational Foundation.


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