 The town is surrounded by many other towns and villages including Oke Odan, Ilase, Ita Egbe, Ajilete amongst others.Due to the location of an official cross-border post and as a result of cross-border trading activities within the frontier town, Idiroko has grown from a village to become a town.The residents of Idiroko are multilingual because of their mixed culture due to cross-cultural contact and intermarriages.