[13] Cocoa production, farming, asphalt mining, and activities related to the state's extensive coastline also are part of the economy.

[14] It is home to the Idanre inselberg hills, the highest geographical point in the western half of Nigeria at over 1,000 metres (3,300 ft) in elevation.

The state contains eighteen local government areas, the major ones being Akoko, Akure, Okitipupa, Ondo, Ilaje, Idanre and Owo.

Ijaw people, such as the Apoi and Arogbo populations inhabit the southeastern swamps close to the Edo state border.

A small population of people speak a variant of the Yoruba language similar to the Ife dialect in Oke-Igbo town close to the Osun state border.

[24] The vast majority of the population are Christians; minorities practice Islam and traditional Yoruba animist religion.