🏠 Local Government Area • Gombe State • Gombe South
Kaltungo Local Government Area
Gombe State · North East Zone · Headquarters: Kaltungo
Known for the Tangale-Waja people and cotton farming. Important cultural and agricultural LGA.
Kaltungo Local Government Area is located in Gombe State, in the North East geopolitical zone of Nigeria. It falls within the Gombe South senatorial district. The headquarters of Kaltungo LGA is Kaltungo.
The headquarters of Kaltungo Local Government Area is Kaltungo. This is where the council secretariat, chairman's office and main government offices are located. The postal code for Kaltungo is 771301.
According to the 2006 National Population Census by the National Population Commission (NPC), Kaltungo Local Government Area had a population of 127,421 people.
Kaltungo Local Government Area was created in 1976 as part of the national local government reforms. Nigeria has had several rounds of LGA creation — 1976, 1991, and 1996 — which expanded the total from 301 to the current 774 LGAs.
Kaltungo Local Government Area is in Gombe State, Nigeria. Gombe State is in the North East zone and has its capital at Gombe. Gombe State has 11 Local Government Areas in total.
Kaltungo Local Government Area is in the Gombe South senatorial district of Gombe State. This district is represented by a senator in the Nigerian National Assembly. Each senatorial district in Nigeria comprises several LGAs and elects one senator for a four-year term.