Urhobo people
Ethnic group of Niger Delta, Nigeria / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Urhobos are people located in southern Nigeria,[1] near the northwestern Niger Delta.[2]
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The Urhobos are one of the three major ethnic groups in Delta State, the other two being the Itsekiri and the Ijaw. The Urhobos speak the Urhobo language.[1] Their population is approximately 7 million.[3]
The Urhobo people live in a territory bounded by latitudes 6° and 5°, 15° North and Longitudes 5°, 40° and 6°, 25° East[clarification needed] in the Delta and Bayelsa States of Nigeria. Their neighbors are the Isoko to the southeast, the Itsekiri and Ijaw to the west, the Bini to the north, the Ijaw to the south and the Ukwuani people to the northeast.[4]