A coursed wall of laterite blocks survives above dry scrub at Surame in Sokoto State.
Heritage

Surame: Visitor and Heritage Guide

A Hausa kingdom of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, nine kilometers across, now walls and wells in the scrub of Sokoto State, in the north west.
  • Country Nigeria
  • Category Heritage
  • Reviewed 20 August 2026
  • Sources 2
  • Length 1 min read

Credit DipoTayo, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Surame is on Nigeria's Tentative List, submitted in 2007. It is not inscribed, and this is Nigeria's own account of it.

Surame is in Sokoto State, in Nigeria’s north west. Check access locally before planning a visit.

Sources

  1. UNESCO Tentative List: Surame Cultural Landscape
  2. National Commission for Museums and Monuments

The dates, the extent and the list of surviving features are from Nigeria's Tentative List submission for the Surame Cultural Landscape, entry 5172, submitted in 2007 and read on 20 August 2026. The submission spells gates as "Grates"; the typo is the source's.