ولاية باوچي Bauchi State
ولاية
Nickname(s):  Pearl of Tourism
مسقط ولاية باوچي في نيجيريا
الإحداثيات: Coordinates:
البلد	نيجريا
Date created	3 February 1976
Capital	باوچي
الحكم
• الحاكم	بالا محمد (PDP)
• نائب الحاكم	بابا تـِلا
• Senators	Jika Dauda Halliru Bulkachuwa Adamu Muhammad Lawal Yahaya Gumau
• Representatives	List
المساحة
• الإجمالية	49٬119 كم² (18٬965 ميل²)
ترتيب المساحة	الخامسة بين 36
التعداد(2006 census)
• الإجمالي	4٬676٬465
• الترتيب	بترتيب:سبعة من 36
• الكثافة	95/km2 (250/sq mi)
GDP (PPP)
• Year	2007
• Total	$4.71 billion
• Per capita	$983
منطقة التوقيت	WAT (التوقيت العالمي المنسق+01)
postal code	740001
ISO 3166 code	NG-BA
HDI (2018)	0.426 low · 31st of 37
المسقط الإلكتروني	www.bauchistate.gov.ng

ولاية باوچي هي احدى الولايات الست وثلاثين المكونة لنيجيريا. الإنجليزية هي اللغة الرسمية. Its capital is the city of Bauchi. The state was formed in 1976 when the former North-Eastern State was broken up. It originally included the area now in Gombe State, which became a distinct state in 1996.

مدينة باوچي هي مقر جامعة أبوبكر تفاوة باليوة.

Other educational institutions located in the state include Bauchi State University, Abubakar Tatari Ali Polytechnic and Federal Polytechnic, Bauchi.

الاسم

According to tradition, it was named for a hunter known as Baushe, who settled in the region before the arrival of Yakubu, the first traditional ruler of Bauchi emirate (founded 1800–10).

In Hausa the word Bauchi means the land of freedom and tourism. Bauchi and Adamawa were the two main sources of freedom and tourism for the Fulani empire of Sokoto.

التاريخ

What is now known as Bauchi was until 1976 a province in the then North-Eastern State of Nigeria. According to the 2006 census, the state has a population of 4,653,066.

Bauchi State has gone through tremendous transformation over the years. The Ajawa language was spoken in Bauchi State, but became extinct between 1920 and 1940 as speakers switched to Hausa.

During the colonial era up to independence, it formed part of the Bauchi Plateau of the then Northern Region, until the 1967 state creation exercise, when the Bauchi, Borno, and Adamawa provinces constituted the former North-Eastern State.

With the creation of Bauchi State in 1976, then comprising present Bauchi and Gombe states, it included 16 local government areas. The number of local government areas in the then Bauchi State was increased to 20 and later to 23. However, in 1997 when Gombe State was created out of Bauchi and additional local governments were created in the country, Bauchi State was left with 20 local government areas as shown below.

Sharia law was adopted in June 2001.

مناطق الحكومة المحلية

تنقسم ولاية باوتشي إلى 20 منطقة حكومة محلية (LGAs). هم:

الجغرافيا

Bauchi State occupies a total land area of 49,119 kم² (5.2871×10¹¹ قدم²) representing about 5.3% of Nigeria's total land mass and is located between latitudes 9° 3' and 12° 3' north and longitudes 8° 50' and 11° east.

The state is bordered by seven states, Kano and Jigawa to the north, Taraba and Plateau to the south, Gombe and Yobe to the east and Kaduna to the west.

Bauchi state is one of the states in the northern part of Nigeria that span two distinctive vegetation zones, namely, the Sudan savannah and the Sahel savannah. The Sudan savannah type of vegetation covers the southern part of the state. Here, the vegetation gets richer and richer towards the south, especially along water sources or rivers, but generally the vegetation is less uniform and grasses are shorter than what grows even farther south, that is, in the forest zone of the middle belt.

The Sahel type of savannah, also known as semi-desert vegetation, becomes manifest from the middle of the state as one moves from the state's south to its north. This type of vegetation comprises isolated stands of thorny shrubs.

On the other hand, the southwestern part of the state is mountainous as a result of the continuation of the Jos Plateau, while the northern part is generally sandy.

The vegetation types as described above are conditioned by the climatic factors, which in turn determine the amount of rainfall received in the area. For instance, the rainfall in Bauchi state ranges between 1,300 milliمترs (4.3 قدم) per annum in the south and only 700 milliمترs (2.3 قدم) per annum in the extreme north. This pattern is because in the West Africa sub-region, rains generally come from the south as they are carried by the southwesterlies. There is therefore a progressive dryness towards the north, culminating in the desert condition in the far north. So also is the case in Bauchi state.

Consequently, rains start earlier in the southern part of the state, where rain is heaviest and lasts longer. Here the rains start in April with the highest record amount of 1,300 milliمترs (4.3 قدم) per annum. In contrast, the northern part of the state receives the rains late, usually around June or July, and records the highest amount of 700 milliمترs (2.3 قدم) per annum.

In the same vein, the weather experienced in the south and the north varies considerably. While it is humidly hot during the early part of the rainy season in the south, the hot, dry and dusty weather lingers up north.

In addition to rainfall, Bauchi state is watered by a number of rivers. They include the Gongola and Jama'are rivers.

The Gongola River crosses Bauchi state in Tafawa Balewa Local Government Area in the south and in Kirfi and Alkaleri Local Government Areas in the eastern part of the state, while the Jama’are River cuts across a number of Local Government Areas in the northern part of the state. Moreover, a substantial part of the Hadeja-Jama'are River basin lies in Bauchi state, which along with various fadama (floodplain) areas in the state provides suitable land for agricultural activities. These are further supported by the number of dams meant for irrigation and other purposes. These include the Gubi and Tilde-Fulani dams. There also lakes such as the Maladumba Lake in Misau Local Government Area that further provide the necessary conditions to support Agriculture.

السكان

Bauchi State has a total of 55 tribal groups in which Gerawa, Sayawa, Jarawa, Kirfawa, Turawa Bolewa, Karekare, Kanuri, Fa'awa, Butawa, Warjawa, Zulawa, Boyawa MBadawa, Hausa and Fulani are the main tribes. This means that they have backgrounds, occupational patterns, beliefs and many other things that form part of the existence of the people of the state.

There are cultural similarities in the people's language, occupational practices, festivals, dress and there is a high degree of ethnic interaction especially in marriage and economic existence. Some of the ethnic groups have joking relationships that exist between them, e.g. Fulani and Kanuri, Jarawa and Sayawa, etc.

الاسم

في الهاوسا تعني حدثة باوتشي أرض العبيد. كانت باوتشي وأداماوا المصدرين الرئيسيين للعبيد في عهد إمبراطورية فولاني من سكوتو.

اللغات

West Chadic language groups spoken in Bauchi State:

• North Bauchi languages
• South Bauchi languages

Languages of Bauchi State listed by LGA:

Other languages of Bauchi State are Ajawa, Beele, Berom, Kanuri, Kwaami, Manga, Pero, and Piya-Kwonci.

انظر أيضا

• Bauchi Light Railway
• معارك نيجيريا 2009

وصلات خارجية

المسقط الرسمي:- [1]

المصادر

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