Gboko
| Gboko | |||
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| Coordinates | 7 ° 20 ′ N , 9 ° 0 ′ E | ||
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| Country | Nigeria | ||
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| ISO 3166-2 | NG-BE | ||
| Residents | 480,000 (2010 calculation) | ||
Gboko is a city and a Local Government Area of the Nigerian state of Benue and is located in the southeast of Nigeria. According to a calculation from 2010, it has over 480,000 inhabitants.
Most of the inhabitants belong to the Tiv ethnic group .
religion
Gboko is the seat of the Gboko diocese, founded in 2012 .
Sports
BCC Lions football club , founded in 1982, was the Nigerian champion in 1994
sons and daughters of the town
- Farida Waziri (* 1949), politician
- Francisca Ordega (* 1993), soccer player
- Isaac Louté (born 1991), football player
- Daniel Loute (* 1990), football player