| Official Name: | Shira, Nigeria | ||||||
| Nickname: | badali | ||||||
| Settlement Type: | LGA and town | ||||||
| Motto: | badali takuna ramin kura daga ke sai yayanki | ||||||
| Pushpin Map: | Nigeria#Africa | ||||||
| Pushpin Relief: | y | ||||||
| Subdivision Type: | Country | ||||||
| Subdivision Name: |  Nigeria | ||||||
| Subdivision Name1: | Bauchi State | ||||||
| Unit Pref: | Imperial | ||||||
| Population As Of: | 2006 | ||||||
| Timezone: | WAT | ||||||
| Utc Offset: | +1 | ||||||
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Shira is a Local Government Area of Bauchi State, Nigeria. Its headquarters is in the town of Yana. It has an area of 1,321 km and a population of 234,014 at the 2006 census.[1]
The postal code of the area is 750.[2]
The area's temperature ranges from -8°F to 74°F, with warm summers and some cloud cover and chilly, snowy, windy winters.[3]
Shira's climate is getting colder, with a positive trend of rising temperatures and a horizontal trend of falling temperatures.[4]