Plateau State

Languages spoken

Major cities

Jos · Bukuru · Pankshin

What to explore · learn

• Home of Peace and Tourismculture

  Plateau's nickname reflects its cool highland climate and historical popularity as a colonial-era tourism and retreat destination.

• Colonial tin-mining boomhistory

  Jos grew rapidly from the early 1900s as a British colonial tin-mining hub, drawing migrant labour from across Nigeria and shaping the state's ethnic diversity.

• Nzem Berom Festivalfestival

  Nzem Berom is the umbrella cultural festival of the Berom people, combining older harvest and planting rites, with music, dance and displays from across Beromland.

  Apr · annualJos
• Gbong Gwom Josinstitution

  The Gbong Gwom Jos is the paramount Berom ruler and chairs the Plateau State Council of Traditional Rulers.

  Jos

Cultural groups & homelands

• Southern Plateau (Tarok, Goemai, Pan, Mupun)

  5 LGAs

  Tarok (Langtang), Goemai (Shendam), Pan (Qua'an Pan) and related communities of the southern Plateau lowlands.

• Ngas and Mwaghavul (central Plateau)

  4 LGAs

  Ngas (Pankshin, Kanke) and Mwaghavul (Mangu, Bokkos) communities of the central Plateau highlands.

• Berom

  3 LGAs

  Largest indigenous people of the Jos Plateau, centred on Jos South, Barkin Ladi and Riyom under the Gbong Gwom Jos.

Major celebrations

• Nzem Berom FestivalApr · annualJos

Cultural institutions

• Gbong Gwom Jos

  The Gbong Gwom Jos is the paramount Berom ruler and chairs the Plateau State Council of Traditional Rulers.

  Jos

Metro areas

• Jos Metropolis

  Plateau State's capital cluster on the cool Jos Plateau, built around a 20th-century tin-mining boom.