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Soil carbon pools exist in Abia State soils but variation, quantification and speciation remain unascertained. This study was carried out on soils collected from two locations (Umuahia North and Ikwuano LGAs) under three land use systems: arable land (AL), forest land (FL) and palm plantation (PP). The aim of the study was to assess carbon pools in the study soil. Laboratory data was subjected to analysis of variance (ANOVA) in Randomized Complete Block Design (RCBD). Significantly different means were separated using Fisher’s least significant difference (F-LSD) at 5% level of probability (p≤0.05). Correlation analysis was used to assess the relationship between the selected soil properties. It was observed that organic carbon increased significantly (p<0.05) 2.47 under forest land in Umuahia North and decreased to 0.97 under arable land in Ikwuano, permanganate oxidizable carbon (POC) increased significantly in Umuahia North (p<0.05) while decreasing in Ikwuano, the POC interaction on the both locations were significant, water soluble organic carbon (WSOC) and microbial biomass carbon (MBC) were neither significant in location, land use or their interaction.
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