Talata Mafara is a Local Government Area in Zamfara State

Zamfara State

Zamfara State is a state in northwestern Nigeria. Its capital is Gusau and its Governor is Abdul'aziz Abubakar Yari, a member of the All Nigeria Peoples Party . Until 1996 the area was part of Sokoto State....

, 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...

. Its headquarters are in the town of Talata Mafara, about 15 km from the Bakolori Dam

Bakolori Dam

The Bakolori Dam is in Sokoto State in the Northwest of Nigeria, completed in 1978 and its reservoir filled by 1981. It is a major reservoir on the Sokoto River, a tributary of the Rima River, which in turn feeds the Niger River...

 on the Sokoto River

Sokoto River

The Sokoto River is a river in north-west Nigeria and a tributary of the River Niger. The river's source is near Funtua in the south of Katsina State, some 275 km in straight line from Sokoto...

12°34′00"N 6°04′00"E. The town lies on the southern edge of the major irrigation project fed by the dam.
The town is the birthplace of Yahaya Abdulkarim

Yahaya Abdulkarim

Malam Yahaya Abdulkarim was elected governor of Sokoto State, Nigeria between January 1992 and November 1993, during General Ibrahim Babangida's attempted transition to democracy....

, governor of Sokoto State from January 1992 to November 1993.

It has an area of 1,430 km² and a population of 215,178 at the 2006 census.

The postal code

Postal code

A postal code is a series of letters and/or digits appended to a postal address for the purpose of sorting mail. Once postal codes were introduced, other applications became possible.In February 2005, 117 of the 190 member countries of the Universal Postal Union had postal code systems...

of the area is 892.