Ondo State Profile
Official Name:Ondo State of Nigeria
Appellation:Sunshine State
State Capital:Akure.
Date of Creation:February, 1976.
Consititution Status:One of the 36 States of the Federation of Nigeria
Location:Ondo State, made up of 18 Local Government Areas is located in the South Western Zone of Nigeria. The state lies between longitudes 4"30" and 6" East of the Greenwich Meridian, 5"45" and 8" 15" North of the Equator.This means that the state lies entirely in the tropics.
Ondo state is bounded in the North by Ekiti/Kogi State; in the East by Edo State; in the West by Oyo and Ogun States and in the South by the Atlantic Ocean.
Land Area:14,788.723 square kilometers.
Population:3,460,877 comprising 1,745.057 Male and 1,715,820 female(as at 2006)
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