Urhobo people

Urhobo people
Ihwo r' Urhobo
Total population
c. 1.2 million[citation needed] (est.)
Languages
Religion
Related ethnic groups
Isoko, Bini, Esan, Afemai, Ijaw, Itsekiri

The Urhobos are people located in southern Nigeria,[1] near the northwestern Niger Delta.[2]

The Urhobos are one of the three major ethnic groups in Delta State, the other two being the Itsekiri and the Ijaw. The Urhobos speak the Urhobo language.[1] Their population is approximately 1.2 million.[3]

The Urhobo people live in a territory bounded by latitudes 6° and 5°, 15° North and Longitudes 5°, 40° and 6°, 25° East[clarification needed] in the Delta and Bayelsa States of Nigeria. Their neighbors are the Isoko to the southeast, the Itsekiri and Ijaw to the west, the Bini to the north, the Ijaw to the south and the Ukwuani people to the northeast.[4]

  1. ^ a b "Urhobo | people | Britannica". www.britannica.com. Retrieved 2022-03-05.
  2. ^ Kuper, Hannah. Searching for observational studies: what does citation tracking add to PubMed? A case study in depression and coronary heart disease. OCLC 1186477102.
  3. ^ "PeopleGroups.org - Urhobo of Nigeria". peoplegroups.org.[dead link]
  4. ^ "Orodje Okpe: Ten years on an ancestral throne". The Guardian Nigeria. 2017-01-02. Retrieved 2022-03-30.

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