The Bekworra of Nigeria, numbering approximately 219,000 people, are Engaged yet Unreached. They are described as an Indigenous ethnic group of southeastern Nigeria, located primarily in Cross River State, where they form both an ethnic community and the basis of Bekwarra Local Government Area Bekwarra, Bekwara They are an Indigenous people, with Bekworra (Yakoro) as their ethnic/kinship group and are in the Benue people cluster of the Sub-Saharan African Peoples. Their primary religion is Animism. They primarily speak Bekwarra.