Kafanchan

Kafanchan is a town in the southern part of Kaduna State, Nigeria, and owes much of its development to the railway. The Nigerian Railway Corporation station, built in 1927 at a junction on the line connecting Port Harcourt, Enugu, Kafanchan, Kuru, Bauchi and Maiduguri, turned it into a railway junction town and drew migrants from across the country looking for work and trade. The area is the home of the Fantswam people, whose chiefdom was created in 2001 together with the Nikyob-Nindem chiefdom, and the town is also known by names in the Tyap and Nikyob languages. It lies in the Southern Guinea Zone of forest and savannah, southwest of the Jos Plateau escarpment, and its relief is drained by the Sanga and Amere rivers. An estimated 83,092 people lived there in 2007.