Katsina
Katsina is a Local Government Area and the capital city of Katsina State, in northern Nigeria. Located some 260 kilometres east of the city of Sokoto and 135 kilometres northwest of Kano, close to the border with Niger Republic, in 2016, Katsina's population was estimated at 429,000.
- City with 318,000 residents
- …lies at an elevation of 496 metres (1,627 feet)
- Description: local government area in Nigeria
- Also known as“Katsina Local Government Area”“KT”“Ta Dikko”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Muhammadu Dikko Stadium.
Katsina
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Latitude
12.9894° or 12° 59′ 22″ north
Longitude
7.6006° or 7° 36′ 2″ east
Open location code
7F49XJQ2+Q7
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yoruba—“Katsina” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كاتسينا (مدينة)”
- Arabic: “كاتسينا”
- Asturian: “Katsina”
- Belarusian: “Каціна”
- Bulgarian: “Катсина”
- Catalan: “Katsina”
- Cebuano: “Katsina (kapital sa estado)”
- Cebuano: “Katsina”
- Chinese: “卡齐纳”
- Croatian: “Katsina”
- Czech: “Katsina”
- Danish: “Katsina”
- Dutch: “Katsina”
- Esperanto: “Katsina”
- Finnish: “Katsina”
- French: “Katsina”
- Fulah: “Katsina”
- German: “Katsina”
- Hausa: “Katsina”
- Hausa: “KT”
- Hebrew: “קאצינה”
- Hungarian: “Katsina”
- Igbo: “Katsina”
- Igbo: “KT”
- Igbo: “Ta Dikko”
- Interlingue: “Katsina”
- Irish: “Katsina”
- Italian: “Katsina”
- Japanese: “カツィナ”
- Korean: “카치나”
- Latin: “Casena”
- Lithuanian: “Kacina”
- Malagasy: “Katsina”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Katsina”
- Nigerian Pidgin: “Katsina”
- Nigerian Pidgin: “Kt”
- Nigerian Pidgin: “Ta dikko”
- Northern Frisian: “Katsina”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Katsina”
- Norwegian: “Katsina”
- Nupe-Nupe-Tako: “Katsina”
- Persian: “کاتسینا”
- Polish: “Katsina”
- Portuguese: “Catsina”
- Portuguese: “Katsina”
- Romanian: “Katsina”
- Russian: “Кацина”
- South Azerbaijani: “کاتسینا”
- Spanish: “Katsina”
- Swahili: “Katsina”
- Swedish: “Katsina”
- Turkish: “Katsina”
- Ukrainian: “Кацина”
- Ukrainian: “Каціна”
- Urdu: “کاسینا (شہر)”
- Urdu: “کاسینا”
- Welsh: “Katsina”
- Yoruba: “Kàtsínà”
- Yoruba: “KT”
- Yoruba: “Ta Dikko”
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