Kogi State: The lone State in Nigeria sharing boundaries with 10 neighbouring States

The confluence State as it is popularly referred to because the confluence of River Niger and River Benue is at its capital, Lokoja. Kogi State is located at the North Central of Nigeria sharing boundaries with 10 other states. The States it shares boundaries with are:

1. Niger State – towards the North
2. Federal Capital Territory – towards the North
3. Nasarawa State – towards the North East
4. Kwara State – towards the North West
5. Benue State – towards the East
6. Anambra State – towards the South
7. Enugu State – towards the South East
8. Ondo State – towards the West
9. Ekiti State – towards the West
10. Edo State – towards the South West

Other facts about Kogi state are enumerated below

• It is the most centrally located of all the States in the Federation
• Lokoja its State Capital is generally hot throughout the year
• It's Capital, Lokoja  was the first administrative capital of modern day Nigeria.
• The Major ethnic groups are Igala, Ebira and Okun.
• The State was created on August 27, 1991 during the military regime of Gen. Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida from parts of Kwara and Benue States.
• Flora Shaw the future wife of Baron Lugard, a British Colonial Administrator while gazing out at the River Niger in Lokoja coined the Name Nigeria.
• The State is made-up of twenty-one Local Government Areas.
• Apart from agriculture which is the mainstay of Kogi economy, the state is also blessed with mineral resources such as coal, limestone, iron, petroleum and tin. With these resources it houses the biggest steel industry in Nigeria, the Ajaokuta Steel Company Limited and one of the largest cement factories in Africa, Obajana Cement Factory.