[2] They consist of two nearly parallel sandstone mountain chains running east to west[1] along the boundaries of the federal states of Bauchi, Gombe, Taraba, and Adamawa.

[3] The area is not easily accessible due to the mountainous landscape and partial seasonal flooding, and as a result has retained an economically and politically marginal status.

[3] Ethnic groups living in and around the mountains as of 1992[update] include the Kushi, the Pero, the Piya, the Kwonci, the Kholok of Wídálá, the Nyam, the Tangale, the Bacama, the Kulung, the Kiyu, the Kwa, the Loo, the Burak, the Leemák, the Tala of Kode, the Leeláú, the Gomu, the Bambuka, the Jen, the Munga Doso, the Bangwinji, the Dadiya, the Cham, the Tsóbó, the Waja, and the Longuda.

[1] Prior to the twentieth century, the Muri Mountains served as a place of refuge for populations moving to escape slave raiding.

[7] The societies within the Muri Mountains were never conquered by the nearby emirates, but were subjugated by the British in the early 1900s, who sent in punitive expeditions.