Baro
Baro is a small port town on the Niger in present Niger State. A crater on Mars has been named after Baro.- Type: Town with 26,800 residents
- Description: is a small port town on the Niger in present Niger State, Nigeria
- Also known as: “Barbo” and “Baro, Nigeria”
Baro
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Lapai, Niger State, North Central Nigeria, Nigeria, West Africa, Africa
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Latitude
8.6148° or 8° 36′ 53″ north
Longitude
6.41873° or 6° 25′ 7″ east
Population
26,800
Elevation
62 metres (203 feet)
Open location code
6FW8JC79+WF
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Yoruba—“Baro” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Baro”
- Cebuano: “Baro”
- Chinese: “巴罗”
- Dutch: “Baro”
- French: “Baro”
- Georgian: “ბარო”
- Hausa: “Baro”
- Hebrew: “בארו”
- Igbo: “Baro”
- Irish: “Baro”
- Italian: “Baro”
- Polish: “Baro”
- Russian: “Баро (Нигерия)”
- Russian: “Баро”
- Turkish: “Baro”
- Yoruba: “Baro”
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