Jos Jos is a city in the North-Central region of Nigeria. The city has a population of about 900,000 residents based on the 2006 census. Popularly called "J-Town", it is the administrative capital and largest city of Plateau State. The city is situ ...

is a city in Nigeria's middle belt. Jos or JOS may also refer to:

In Nigeria

Jos Plateau The Jos Plateau is a plateau located near the centre of Nigeria. The plateau has given its name to the Plateau State in which it is found and is named for the state's capital, Jos. The plateau is home to people of diverse cultures and languages ...

, in the centre of Nigeria *

Anglican Diocese of Jos The Anglican Diocese of Jos is a diocese of the Anglican Church of Nigeria which is roughly contiguous with Plateau State. In the late 1970s, it was recognised that the large Northern Diocese required subdivision as the church was experiencing ...

Anglican Province of Jos The Jos Province is one of the 14 ecclesiastical provinces of the Church of Nigeria. It was one of the original ten provinces created in 2002. It is divided into ten dioceses, 31 archdeaconries and 137 parishes. The ten dioceses of the Jos Provi ...

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Jos The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Jos (''Archidioecesis Iosensis (Latin'') is the Metropolitan See for the ecclesiastical province of Jos in Nigeria. History * 1934.04.09: Established as Apostolic Prefecture of Jos from the Apostolic Pref ...

University of Jos The University of Jos, abbreviated as Unijos, is a federal university in Jos, Plateau State, central Nigeria. History What became the University of Jos was established in November 1971 from the satellite campus of the University of Ibadan. T ...

Yakubu Gowon Airport Yakubu Gowon Airport , also known as Jos Airport, is an airport serving Jos, the capital of the Plateau State of Nigeria. It was named after Yakubu Gowon, the Nigerian head of state from 1966 to 1975. Airlines and destinations See also *Federa ...

, also called Jos Airport, serving the city of Jos

People

Jos (given name) Jos is a given name and nickname (often of Joseph, Jozef, Josephus, etc.) which may refer to: * Jos van Aert (born 1962), Dutch cyclist * Jos Bax (1946–2020), Dutch footballer * Jos Baxendell (born 1972), English rugby union player * Jos Beij ...

, a list of people with either the given name or nickname

Other uses

* 84340 Jos, a main-belt asteroid *

JOS Watergraafsmeer JOS Watergraafsmeer is an association football club from the Amsterdam district Watergraafsmeer. In 2010 the club had around 500 registered members. The Saturday team plays in the Derde Klasse, while the Sunday team competes in the Vierde Divisie ...

, a Dutch football club *

Jos Nosy-Bé Jos Nosy-Bé is a Malagasy football club based in Nosy Be, Madagascar. The team has won Madagascar's top level THB Champions League in 1987, qualifying them for the 1988 African Cup of Champions Clubs. As of 2014, Jos Nosy-Bé was playing in th ...

, a football club based in Nosy Be, Madagascar * jos, ISO 639-3 code for the

Levantine Arabic Sign Language Levantine Arabic Sign Language is the sign language used by people of the area known as Bilad al-Sham or the Levant, comprising Jordan, Palestine, Syria, and Lebanon Lebanon, officially the Republic of Lebanon, is a country in the Levan ...

* J OS, the former name for

TempleOS TempleOS (formerly J Operating System, LoseThos, and SparrowOS) is a biblical-themed lightweight operating system (OS) designed to be the Third Temple prophesized in the Bible. It was created by American programmer Terry A. Davis, who develope ...