Tureta
Tureta is a town and Local Government Area in Sokoto State, Nigeria. It shares a border with Zamfara State in the south and east. They are mainly Hausa people predominantly Burmawa.Tureta
- Type: Town with 68,400 residents
- Description: LGA and town in Sokoto State, Nigeria
- Categories: local government area of Nigeria and locality
- Location: Tureta, Sokoto State, North West Nigeria, Nigeria, West Africa, Africa
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Latitude
12.59364° or 12° 35′ 37″ north
Longitude
5.5444° or 5° 32′ 40″ east
Population
68,400
Elevation
274 metres (899 feet)
Open location code
7F47HGVV+FQ
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Yoruba—“Tureta” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Tureta (distrito)”
- Cebuano: “Tureta”
- Chinese: “Tureta”
- French: “Tureta”
- Fulah: “Tureta”
- German: “Tureta”
- Hausa: “Tureta”
- Igbo: “Tureta”
- Italian: “Tureta”
- Karekare: “Tureta”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Tureta”
- Persian: “تورتا”
- South Azerbaijani: “تورتا”
- Spanish: “Tureta”
- Urdu: “توریتا”
- Yoruba: “Agbegbe Ijoba Ibile Tureta”
- Yoruba: “Agbègbè Ìjọba Ìbílẹ̀ Tureta”
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