Tarauni
Tarauni is a Local Government Area in Kano State, Nigeria. Its Secretariat is in the locality of Unguwa Uku within the city of Kano. It has an area of 28 km2 and a population of 221,367 at the 2006 census.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: local government area of Nigeria with 222,000 residents
- Description: local government area in Kano State, Nigeria
- Also known as: “Tarauni Local Government Area”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital and Gidan Makama Museum Kano.
Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital
Hospital
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Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital is a Federal Government Teaching Hospital located in Kano State, Nigeria. It was formerly known as Bayero University Teaching hospital.
Gidan Makama Museum Kano
Museum
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Gidan Makama Museum Kano or Kano Museum is a museum in Kano, Nigeria. This building served as temporary palace of Sarakunan Hausa of Kano before the current palace Gidan Rumfa was constructed in the 15th century The museum has a significant collections of arts, crafts and items of historic interest related to the Kano area. Gidan Makama Museum Kano is situated 4 km northwest of Tarauni.
Kofar Dan Agundi
Monument
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Kofar Dan Agundi is a monument, which is situated 3½ km northwest of Tarauni.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kano.
Kano
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Kano is the capital of Kano State. It has a population of around 3.6 million, giving it a busy atmosphere. It is an ancient trading city inhabited for well over a thousand years.
Tarauni
- Location: Kano State, North West Nigeria, Nigeria, West Africa, Africa
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Yoruba—“Tarauni” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Tarauni (distrito)”
- Cebuano: “Tarauni”
- Chinese: “Tarauni”
- French: “Tarauni”
- Fulah: “Taaraawni”
- Hausa: “Tarauni”
- Igbo: “Tarauni”
- Italian: “Tarauni”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Tarauni”
- Portuguese: “Tarauni”
- Spanish: “Tarauni”
- Yoruba: “Agbegbe Ijoba Ibile Tarauni”
- Yoruba: “Agbègbè Ìjọba Ìbílẹ̀ Tarauni”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Goron Dutse Hill and Bayero University.
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About Mapcarta. 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 “Tarauni”. Photo: Anasskoko, CC BY-SA 4.0.