New Nyanya is a town in Nasarawa State. It is a district of

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, Nasarawa State, and is among the towns that make up the

Karu Urban Area The Karu Urban Area is an urban area in central Nigeria. The urban area is majorly located in the Nigerian state of Nasarawa, but with some parts stretching into the boundaries of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). It has an area of 40,000 hect ...

, a

conurbation A conurbation is a region comprising a number of metropolises, cities, large towns, and other urban areas which through population growth and physical expansion, have merged to form one continuous urban or industrially developed area. In most ca ...

of towns stretching into the

Federal Capital Territory A territory is an area of land, sea, or space, particularly belonging or connected to a country, person, or animal. In international politics, a territory is usually either the total area from which a state may extract power resources or a ...

(FCT). New Nyanya is loosely considered as part of the metropolitan area of

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. Its neighbouring towns are

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, Ado, Masaka,

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and Koroduma and villages that grew, as a result of the rapid expansion of administrative and economic activities of Abuja, into neighbouring towns, coupled with the evacuation of tens of thousands of people from Abuja by the

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(FCTA). The indigenes of New Nyanya are the Gbagyi people.

References

Populated places in Nasarawa State {{nasarawa-geo-stub