Afikpo

Afikpo is a city in Ebonyi State in Nigeria. The table of Nigerian cities and urban settlements published by City Population, which reproduces the census of 26 November 1991, counts 44,823 inhabitants for Afikpo, and warns that all Nigerian population figures carry high error rates and that census results are disputed. GeoNames places Afikpo at latitude 5.89258 and longitude 7.93534, about 92 metres above sea level by its digital elevation model, in the Africa/Lagos time zone of the IANA database, which is UTC+1. GeoNames records Afikpo as the seat of a second-order administrative division, so it is not the capital of Ebonyi State. GeoNames carries a population figure of 71,866. The atlas places it in the Western Africa subregion of Africa.