Ankpa

Ankpa is a town and the seat of a Local Government Area in Kogi State, Nigeria. The local government area covers about 1,200 square kilometres. Its population was recorded as 267,353 at the 2006 census, and a figure of 359,300 is given for 2016, an increase of roughly ninety thousand people in a decade. The area uses the postal code 270. A small geographic curiosity attached to the area is that the northeasterly line along which latitude and longitude are equal passes through the local government area. Within the Atlas it is held as a Nigerian city for its place in Western Africa.