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
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 Shirawa language and Teshenawa 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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