Edo State Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===Demographics=== The main ethnic groups in Edo State are Γdo, Etsako, Esan, Owan, and Akoko Edo.<ref name="About Edo"/> Virtually all the groups trace their origin to Benin City, hence their dialects vary with their distance from Benin City. The Edo speaking people occupy seven out of the 18 Local Government Areas (LGAs) of the state and constitute 57.54% of the total population. Others are as follows: Esan (17.14%), Etsako (12.19%), Owan (7.43%), and Akoko Edo (5.70%).<ref name="About Edo"/> There are also [[Ebira language|Igbira]] speaking communities in Akoko Edo, Itsekiri communities in Ikpoba-Okha, and [[Ijaw people|Ijaw]] Izons and [[Urhobo people|Urhobos]] in Ovia North East and South West Local Government Areas, especially in the borderlands. Also, [[Ika people|Ika]] speaking communities exist in Igbanke (Ika) in Orhionmwon LGA.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2020-07-17 |title=Edo: Igbo community in Edo declare support for Obaseki |url=https://peoplesdailyng.com/edo-igbo-community-in-edo-declare-support-for-obaseki/ |access-date=2021-07-10 |website=Peoples Daily Newspaper |language=en-US}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page