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Ota

Ota is a town in , with an estimated 163,783 residents. Ota is the capital of the Local Government Area. The traditional leader of Ota is the Olota of Ota, Oba Adeyemi AbdulKabir Obalanlege.
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  • Type: Village with 37,800 residents
  • Description: settlement in Ogun State, Nigeria
  • Also known as: “Ota, Ogun”, “Otan”, “Otan Aiyegbaju”, “Otan-Aiyegbaju”, “Oton”, “Otta”, “Sango-Ota”, and “Sango-Otta”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Otan Ayegbaju.

Town
Photo: Ogundele1, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is an historic town in Yorubaland founded about 800 years ago by descendants of Oduduwa, Olasooye Osilokun Osiloye the 16th child of Oduduwa who migrated from .

Ota

Latitude
7.95° or 7° 57′ north
Longitude
4.8° or 4° 48′ east
Population
37,800
Elevation
484 metres (1,588 feet)
Open location code
6FV6XR22+22
Open­Street­Map ID
node 501355892
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
2325506
Wiki­data ID
Q3320817
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Catalan to Yoruba—“Ota” goes by many names.
  • Catalan: “Otta”
  • Cebuano: “Otan Ayegbaju”
  • Dutch: “Ota”
  • Hausa: “Ota, Ogun”
  • Hausa: “Ota”
  • Igbo: “Ota Ogun”
  • Igbo: “Ota, Ogun”
  • Irish: “Ota”
  • Polish: “Ota”
  • Portuguese: “Ota”
  • Portuguese: “Otá”
  • Romanian: “Sango Otta”
  • Yoruba: “Ota”
  • Yoruba: “Otta”
  • Yoruba: “Sango Otta”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Ota”. Photo: Deboaa, CC BY-SA 4.0.