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Sokoto
Sultan's Palace
Sultan's Palace
Sokoto is located in Nigeria
Sokoto
Sokoto
Location in Nigeria
Country Flag of Nigeria.svg Nigeria
State Sokoto State
Population
 (2006 census)
 • Total 427,760
Climate BSh

Sokoto is a city in the northwest of Nigeria, near to where the Sokoto River and Rima River meet. The people in Sokoto are mostly Muslims. Sokoto was the capital city of Gobir from the 10th century. Sokoto was made as a caliphate, an Islamic state, in the 19th century.

From around 1900, the British took control of Sokoto, which then made up a large part of the north-west corner of Nigeria. Sokoto became a province (area) of the British colony of Nigeria.

Images for kids

  • Sokotorivermap

    Sokoto river basin, showing location of the city

  • Travels and discoveries in North and Central Africa. From the journal of an expedition undertaken under the auspices of H.B.M.'s government, in the years 1849-1855 (1859) (14781116835)

    Market at Sokoto, early 1850s

  • West Africa in 1897

    The Sokoto area, crudely shown on an 1897 map

  • Sokoto Sultanate

    Sokoto Sultanate during the reign of sultan Ahmadu Rufai

  • Sokoto market 2006

    Sokoto Market

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