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Udung Uko is surrounded by Mbo to the south, Oron to the north, Urue offong/Oruko to the west, and the Cross river estuary to the east. With mainly an agrarian rural population, and a total land area of 112 sq.km(excluding territorial waters), Udung Uko is made up of 52 organised villages, split into 10 political wards, with capital at Eyofin. It has a beach market at Esuk Usung, where fishermen from Ilaje, Cameroon, Ghana, and indigenes alike who return from fishing expeditions display their wares for sale, in addition to other water ways and fronts like Esuk Okong, Esuk Edet Edem, and Atakibang from which commercial quantity of fine sand and gravels are extracted. Atakibang, so called, directly faces both Ibang (lighthouse) on the riverbed of Oron river, as well as Uko Ubo Akpa (Parrot island). It is said that Esuk Usung served as the entry point for the Biafran troops during the Nigerian civil war which lasted from of 1967 to 1970.