bauchi state

The State of Bauchi which lies in Nigeria and which is usually calledto as Bauchi State in order to differentiate it from the Capital city which is also called Bauchi too is a state in northern part of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. It was in the year 1976 that the state was formed and that time when the previous North-Eastern State was split up to some other states. Originally and right from time, it had included the area now which bears the name, Gombe State, and which was in 199d declared a distict state.
The State has a very famous University known as the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University and which is situated in the capital city of Bauchi. It also have some other educational institutions includes Bauchi State University and the Federal Polytechnic, Bauchi.
Now, Bauchi State has bordered around it, seven states and these are Kano and Jigawa which lies on the northern side, to the south you will find Taraba and Plateau.
Bauchi state is one of the few states that is located in the northern part of Nigeria and also span two distinctive vegetation zones, which are, the Sudan Savannah and the Sahel savannah.
It is that the Sudan savannah type of vegetation covers the southern part of the state and here, one can find that, the vegetation gets richer and richer as it extends towards the southern border, especially along water sources or rivers, but generally the vegetation is less uniform and grasses are shorter than what grows even farther south.
Looking at the Sahel type of savannah, which is also known as semi-desert vegetation, everything becomes manifest from the middle of the state as one moves all the way from the state's south to its north. Now, this type of vegetation comprises isolated stands of thorny shrubs and in addition to all these, the rainfall is not that much like in South-South Nigeria,as Bauchi state has quite a number of rivers watering it. These rivers are the Gongola rivers and the Jama'are.