Karu is a Local Government Area in Nasarawa State

Nasarawa State

Nasarawa State is a state in central Nigeria. Its capital is Lafia.-History:Nasarawa was created on 1 October 1996 by the Abacha government from the Plateau State.-Geography:...

, central

Middle Belt

The Middle Belt is a human geographical term designating the region of central Nigeria populated largely by minority ethnic groups and stretching across the country longitudinally. The Middle Belt is indeterminate in that it lacks designated "borders" and is charactized by a heterogeneity and...

  Nigeria

Nigeria

Nigeria , officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a federal constitutional republic comprising 36 states and its Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. The country is located in West Africa and shares land borders with the Republic of Benin in the west, Chad and Cameroon in the east, and Niger in...

.It is close in proximity to the Federal Capital Territory

Federal Capital Territory

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 of Nigeria. It has an area of 2,640 km².Karu local government has its headquarters in New Karu

New Karu

New Karu is the headquarters of Karu Local Government Area, Nasarawa State and a suburb of Abuja, Nigeria's capital city.It is one of the largest towns that make up the greater Karu urban centre in Nasarawa state which is a conurbation consisting of towns and villages along the Keffi-Abuja...

 town.

According to the 2006 census,the population of mainly New Karu town was 205,477, Karu Urban Area in Karu local government has some 2 million inhabitants,While Karu metropolitan

Metropolitan

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 area,which extends beyond Karu urban area,covering about 1,325  km²,has a population of about 4.2 million inhabitants.


It was originally built to house the capital's civil servants and lower income families, but has no running water or good sanitation system.

Loyola Jesuit College

Loyola Jesuit College

Loyola Jesuit College is a private Roman Catholic secondary school in Nigeria operated by the Society of Jesus religious order. The school was opened on October 2, 1996 and is named after the Society's founder, St. Ignatius of Loyola. Loyola Jesuit College is a co-educational, boarding institution...

 is in Gidan Mangoro, Karu.

Urban areas in Karu

Karu Local Government Area is notable for containing a conurbation

Conurbation

A conurbation is a region comprising a number of cities, large towns, and other urban areas that, through population growth and physical expansion, have merged to form one continuous urban and industrially developed area...

 of towns covering a 24 km distance along the Keffi-Abuja

Abuja

Abuja is the capital city of Nigeria. It is located in the centre of Nigeria, within the Federal Capital Territory . Abuja is a planned city, and was built mainly in the 1980s. It officially became Nigeria's capital on 12 December 1991, replacing Lagos...

 expressway.The towns within this conurbation are merging with neighbouring urban centres forming an agglomeration

Agglomeration

In the study of human settlements, an urban agglomeration is an extended city or town area comprising the built-up area of a central place and any suburbs linked by continuous urban area. In France, INSEE the French Statistical Institute, translate it as "Unité urbaine" which means continuous...

 of towns and urban districts.

Transportation

The Karu urban area is served by an express way connecting Karu to Abuja, Nigeria's capital city,and to other parts of the country.