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Kukawa

Kukawa is a town and Local Government Area in the northeastern state of , close to . Kukawa was originally founded as Kuka in the early 19th century by the military leader and religious scholar Muhammad al-Amin al-Kanemi.
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  • Type: Town with 16,100 residents
  • Description: local government area of Nigeria
  • Also known as: “Kouka”, “Koukaoua”, and “Koukawa”

Kukawa

Latitude
12.92475° or 12° 55′ 29″ north
Longitude
13.56617° or 13° 33′ 58″ east
Population
16,100
Elevation
291 metres (955 feet)
Open location code
7F4MWHF8+WF
Open­Street­Map ID
node 469221065
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2333563
Wiki­data ID
Q128665
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In Other Languages

From Catalan to Spanish—“Kukawa” goes by many names.
  • Catalan: “Kouka”
  • Catalan: “Kukawa”
  • Cebuano: “Kukawa (distrito)”
  • Cebuano: “Kukawa (kapital sa distrito)”
  • Cebuano: “Kukawa”
  • Central Kanuri: “Kukawa”
  • Chinese: “Kukawa”
  • Chinese: “库卡瓦”
  • Chinese: “庫卡瓦鎮”
  • Dutch: “Kukawa”
  • French: “Kukawa”
  • Fulah: “Kukawa”
  • German: “Kuka”
  • German: “Kukaua”
  • German: “Kukawa”
  • Greek: “Κουκάβα”
  • Hausa: “Kukawa”
  • Igbo: “Kukawa”
  • Italian: “Kukawa”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Kukawa”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kukawa”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kukawa”
  • Norwegian: “Kukawa”
  • Polish: “Kukawa”
  • Spanish: “Kukawa”

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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 “Kukawa”. Photo: Jigamen, CC BY-SA 4.0.