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Oka-Akoko

Nigeria
Also known as: Oka
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Oka-Akoko, town, Ondo state, southwestern Nigeria, in the Yoruba Hills, on roads from Owo and Ikare. An agricultural market centre (yams, cassava [manioc], corn [maize], rice, palm oil and kernels, okra, and pumpkins) for the local Yoruba people, it is also a collecting point for cocoa, palm produce, tobacco, and cotton. Pop. (latest est.) 132,800.

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