Gubio | |
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LGA and town | |
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| Coordinates: 12°29′51″N 12°46′48″E / 12.49750°N 12.78000°E | |
| Country |  Nigeria |
| State | Borno State |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (WAT) |
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Gubio, also Gobiyo, is a Local Government Area of Borno State, in northeastern Nigeria. Its headquarters are in the town of Gubio.
It has an area of 2,464 km2 and a population of 152,778 at the 2006 census.[citation needed]
The postal code of the area is 602.[1]
The primary road through Gubio runs north towards Damasak and south towards Maiduguri. Gubio is about 60 miles from each of those two settlements.
It is one of the sixteen LGAs that constitute the Borno Emirate, a traditional state located in Borno State, Nigeria.[2]
- ^ "Post Offices- with map of LGA". NIPOST. Archived from the original on 2009-10-07. Retrieved 2009-10-20.
- ^ Nigeria (2000). Nigeria: a people united, a future assured. Vol. 2, State Surveys (Millennium ed.). Abuja, Nigeria: Federal Ministry of Information. p. 106. ISBN 9780104089.