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Eket
Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria · Africa
About Eket
Eket sits on the route: 15 minutes from Abat.
Eket is in Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria, with about 26,000 people. The nearest town is Abat, about 7 km away.
Eket is a city and one of the 31 local government areas in Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria. The name Eket or Ekid also refers to the indigenous people of the two Local Government Areas of Eket and Esit Eket who are a stock of the Ibibio people of the southern part of Ibibioland and to their dialect which is Ekid. The EketRead more
people use the endonym Ekid for themselves and their language, but Europeans spell and pronounce the name as "Eket". The Eket in Ibibioland has no relationship with Eket in Sweden.
Apart from being a local government area in Akwa Ibom State, Eket is one of the three geopolitical zones in the state. The geopolitical zones are Uyo senatorial district, Ikot Ekpene senatorial district and Eket senatorial district.
The town itself is an industrial city that in recent years has become a conurbation joining together separate villages. The Office of the Surveyor-General of Akwa Ibom State estimates the area of the Eket Local Government Area to be approximately 176.000 square Km while the 2006 National Census gives the population of the Local Government Area as 172,856. However, the Akwa Ibom State Ministry of Economic Development gives the 2013 estimated population of the Eket Local Government Area as given as 218,438 with a population density of 1,241/km2.
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Eket is in Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria, about 7 km from Abat.
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Quick Information
- Population
- 25,569
- Continent
- Africa
- Country
- Nigeria
- Region
- Akwa Ibom State
- Timezone
- Africa/Lagos
- Coordinates
- 4.6423, 7.9244
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