Gwale

Gwale is a town and Local Government Area in , within the Greater Metropolitan Area of city. It has an area of 18 km2 and a population of 362,059 at the 2006 census.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Great Mosque of Kano and Gidan Makama Museum Kano.

Mosque
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The is a general Jumaat in , the capital city of and the second most populous city in . The mosque is situated at the heart of the city.

Museum
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or Kano Museum is a in , . 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.

Peak
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is a hill in , , . It is 534 metres high and contains a stairway with 101 steps to the bottom to top. In the seventh century, the hill was the site of a community that engaged in iron-working.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Kano.

Photo: shirazc, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is the capital of . 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.

Gwale

Latitude
11.9821° or 11° 58′ 56″ north
Longitude
8.4982° or 8° 29′ 54″ east
Population
358,000
Elevation
488 metres (1,601 feet)
Open location code
7F3CXFJX+R7
Geo­Names ID
8633820
Wiki­data ID
Q5623248
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In Other Languages

From Bole to Yoruba—“Gwale” goes by many names.
  • Bole: “Gwale”
  • Cebuano: “Gwale (distrito)”
  • Cebuano: “Gwale”
  • Chinese: “Gwale”
  • Dutch: “Gwale”
  • French: “Gwale”
  • German: “Gwale”
  • Hausa: “Gwale”
  • Igbo: “Gwale”
  • Italian: “Gwale”
  • Karekare: “Gwale”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Gwale”
  • Spanish: “Gwale”
  • Yoruba: “Agbègbè Ìjọba Ìbílẹ̀ Gwale”

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