ڪوگي رياست

ڪوگي رياست
رياست
Kogi State
Flag Seal of Kogi State Seal
سانچو:Pluralize from text:  The Confluence State سانچو:Pluralize from text
Location of Kogi State in Nigeria
جاگرافي بيهڪ: 7°30′N 6°42′E
Country	نائجيريا
Date created	27 August 1991
Capital	Lokoja
Government
• Body	Government of Kogi State
• Governor	Usman Ododo (APC)
• Deputy Governor	Salifu Joel (APC)
• Legislature	Kogi State House of Assembly
• Senators	C: Natasha Akpoti (PDP) E: Jibrin Isah (APC) W: Sunday Karimi (APC)
• Representatives	List
Area
• Total	29,833 ڪ.م2 (11,519 ميل2)
• Rank	13th of 36

ڪوگي رياست (Kogi State) نائيجيريا جي اتر مرڪزي علائقي ۾ هڪ رياست آهي، جنهن جي اولهه ۾ ايڪيٽي ۽ ڪوارا رياستون، اتر ۾ وفاقي گادي وارو علائقو، اتر اوڀر ۾ نساراوا رياست، اتر اولهه ۾ نائجر رياست، ڏکڻ اولهه ۾ ايڊو ۽ اونڊو رياستون، ڏکڻ اوڀر ۾ انامبرا ۽ اينوگو رياستون، ۽ اولهه ۾ بينو رياست آهن. اها نائيجيريا ۾ واحد رياست آهي جيڪا ڏهه ٻين رياستن سان سرحد رکي ٿي. درياءَ لاءِ هائوسا لفظ جي نالي تي، رياست 27 آگسٽ 1991 تي بينو رياست، نائجر رياست ۽ ڪوارا رياست جي حصن مان ٺهي هئي. رياست کي "سنگم واري رياست" جو نالو ڏنو ويو آهي ڇاڪاڻ ته نائيجر ندي ۽ بينو درياءَ جو سنگم ان جي گاديءَ واري هنڌ، لوڪوجا جي ڀرسان ٿئي ٿو.

Kogi State is a state in the North Central region of Nigeria, bordered to the west by the states of Ekiti and Kwara, to the north by the Federal Capital Territory, to the northeast by Nasarawa State, to the northwest by Niger State, to the southwest by the states of Edo and Ondo, to the southeast by the states of Anambra and Enugu, and to the west by Benue State. It is the only state in Nigeria to border ten other states. Named for the Hausa word for river, the state was formed from parts of Benue State, Niger State, and Kwara State on 27 August 1991. The state is nicknamed the "Confluence State" as the confluence of the River Niger and the River Benue occurs next to its capital, Lokoja.

Of the 36 states of Nigeria, Kogi is the thirteenth largest in area and twentieth most populous with an estimated population of about 4.5 million as of 2016. Geographically, the state is within the tropical Guinean forest–savanna mosaic ecoregion. Important geographic features include the key rivers with the Niger flowing from the northwest and the Benue coming from the northeast before the two rivers meet in Kogi's center and bisect the state southward.

Kogi State has been inhabited for years by various ethnic groups, including the Ebira, Gbagyi, Nupe (mainly the Bassa Nge, Kakanda, and Kupa subgroups), and Oko in the state's centre; the Agatu, Basa-Komo, Idoma, Igala, and Igbo in the east; and the Yoruba (mainly the Okun, Ogori, Oworo, and Magongo subgroups) in the west. Kogi is also religiously diverse, with about equal percentages of Christians and Muslims along with a substantial minority of adherents of traditional ethnic religions.

In the pre-colonial period, the area that is now Kogi State was split up between various states with some states being tiny and village-based as others were part of larger empires like the Nupe Kingdom which held much of now-western Kogi State until the early 1800s when the Fulani jihad annexed the kingdom and placed the area under the Sokoto Caliphate while the eastern half of the modern state was the ancient Igala Kingdom. In the 1900s and 1910s, British expeditions occupied the area and incorporated them into the Northern Nigeria Protectorate with its capital as Lokoja until 1903. The protectorate later merged into British Nigeria before becoming independent as Nigeria in 1960. Originally, modern-day Kogi State was a part of the post-independence Northern Region until 1967 when the region was split and the area became part of the North-Western State, Kwara State, and Benue-Plateau State. After Benue-Plateau and the North-Western states were split in 1976, now-Kogi became a part of the new Benue and Niger states along with Kwara. Western Benue State, southeastern Kwara State, and far southern Niger State were broken off to form the new Kogi State.

Economically, Kogi State is largely based around agriculture, mainly of coffee, cashew, groundnut, cocoa, oil palm, and yam crops. Other key industries are crude oil extraction and the livestock herding of cattle, goats, and sheep. Kogi has the ninth highest Human Development Index and sixteenth highest GDP in the country.

ڪوگي رياست (Kogi State) نائيجيريا جي اتر مرڪزي علائقي ۾ هڪ رياست آهي، جنهن جي اولهه ۾ ايڪٽي ۽ ڪوارا رياستون، اتر ۾ وفاقي گادي وارو علائقو، اتر اوڀر ۾ نساراوا رياست، اتر اولهه ۾ نائجر رياست، ڏکڻ اولهه ۾ ايڊو ۽ اونڊو رياستون، ڏکڻ اوڀر ۾ انامبرا ۽ اينوگو رياستون، ۽ اولهه ۾ بينو رياست آهن. اها نائيجيريا ۾ واحد رياست آهي جيڪا ڏهه ٻين رياستن سان سرحد رکي ٿي. درياءَ لاءِ هائوسا لفظ جي نالي تي، رياست 27 آگسٽ 1991 تي بينو رياست، نائجر رياست ۽ ڪوارا رياست جي حصن مان ٺهي هئي. رياست کي "سنگم واري رياست" جو نالو ڏنو ويو آهي ڇاڪاڻ ته نائيجر ندي ۽ بينو درياءَ جو سنگم ان جي گاديءَ واري هنڌ، لوڪوجا جي ڀرسان ٿئي ٿو.