Bama
Bama is a town and a local government area in the central part of Borno State, Nigeria. Bama has about 118,000 residents.Photo: Ifenomenal, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Town with 118,000 residents
- Description: local government and city in Borno, Nigeria
- Also known as: “Bama, Borno”, “Bama, Nigeria”, and “Kasugula Bama”
Bama
- Categories: local government area of Nigeria and locality
- Location: Kasugula, Bama, Borno State, North East Nigeria, Nigeria, West Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
11.5235° or 11° 31′ 24″ northLongitude
13.6912° or 13° 41′ 28″ eastPopulation
118,000Elevation
330 metres (1,083 feet)Open location code
7F3MGMFR+9FOpenStreetMap ID
node 501526319OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
2347954Wikidata ID
Q3331583
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yoruba—“Bama” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “محافظة باما”
- Catalan: “Bama”
- Cebuano: “Bama (distrito)”
- Cebuano: “Bama (kapital sa distrito)”
- Cebuano: “Bama”
- Central Kanuri: “Bama Nigeria”
- Central Kanuri: “Bama”
- Chinese: “Bama”
- Chinese: “巴马”
- Danish: “Bama”
- French: “Bama”
- Fulah: “Bama”
- Galician: “Bama, Nixeria”
- Galician: “Bama”
- German: “Bama”
- Hausa: “Bama, borno”
- Hausa: “Bama”
- Igbo: “Bama, Bọrnu”
- Igbo: “Bama”
- Italian: “Bama”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Bama”
- Nigerian Pidgin: “Bama”
- Nigerian Pidgin: “Borno”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Bama”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bama i Nigeria”
- Norwegian: “Bama”
- Polish: “Bama”
- Portuguese: “Bama”
- Spanish: “Bama”
- Yoruba: “Bama, Nàìjíríà”
- Yoruba: “Bama”
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