South East Nigeria
Abia State
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Aba

Aba is a city in Abia State, , and also the commercial centre of Abia State. Aba is well known for its craftsmen and also the most populous city in the South Eastern Nigeria.
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  • Type: City with 1,020,000 residents
  • Description: city in Abia State, southern Nigeria
  • Also known as: “Aba City” and “Aba, Nigeria”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Enyimba International Stadium and Christ the King Cathedral.

Stadium
The is a multi-use in Aba, . It is currently used mostly for football matches and serves as the home ground of Enyimba F.C.

Church
The is a religious building in the Catholic Church that serves as the cathedral of Aba, a city with more than 500,000 inhabitants in in of .

Aba

Latitude
5.1128° or 5° 6′ 46″ north
Longitude
7.3651° or 7° 21′ 55″ east
Population
1,020,000
Elevation
64 metres (210 feet)
IATA airport code
QAX
United Nations Location Code
NG QAX
Open location code
6FQ94978+43
Open­Street­Map ID
node 501517702
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2353151
Wiki­data ID
Q202162
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In Other Languages

From Abkhazian to Yoruba—“Aba” goes by many names.
  • Abkhazian: “Аба”
  • Albanian: “Aba, Nigeria”
  • Arabic: “آبا”
  • Armenian: “Աբա”
  • Asturian: “Aba”
  • Azerbaijani: “Aba (Nigeriya)”
  • Azerbaijani: “Aba”
  • Belarusian: “Аба (горад)”
  • Belarusian: “Аба”
  • Bengali: “আবা”
  • Bulgarian: “Аба”
  • Catalan: “Aba”
  • Cebuano: “Aba”
  • Chechen: “Аба”
  • Chinese: “阿巴”
  • Croatian: “Aba”
  • Croatian: “Enyimba”
  • Croatian: “Enyinmba”
  • Czech: “Aba”
  • Danish: “Aba”
  • Dutch: “Aba”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ابا، نيجيريا”
  • Esperanto: “Aba”
  • Estonian: “Aba”
  • Finnish: “Aba”
  • French: “Aba”
  • Fulah: “Aba”
  • Galician: “Aba, Nixeria”
  • Galician: “Aba”
  • Georgian: “აბა”
  • German: “Aba”
  • Greek: “Άμπα”
  • Gujarati: “અબા”
  • Hausa: “Aba”
  • Hebrew: “אבה”
  • Hindi: “अबा”
  • Hungarian: “Aba”
  • Igbo: “Aba”
  • Igbo: “Abá”
  • Indonesian: “Aba, Nigeria”
  • Indonesian: “Aba”
  • Irish: “Aba”
  • Italian: “Aba”
  • Japanese: “アバ”
  • Kabardian: “Аба”
  • Kannada: “ಅಬ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Aba”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “ABA”
  • Korean: “아바”
  • Latvian: “Aba”
  • Lithuanian: “Aba”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Aba”
  • Malay: “Aba”
  • Marathi: “आबा”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Aba”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Aba i Nigeria”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Aba”
  • Norwegian: “Aba”
  • Persian: “آبا، ابیا”
  • Polish: “Aba”
  • Portuguese: “Aba”
  • Romanian: “Aba, Nigeria”
  • Romanian: “Aba”
  • Russian: “Аба”
  • Sinhala: “අබා”
  • Slovak: “Aba”
  • Slovenian: “Aba”
  • South Azerbaijani: “آبا، ابیا”
  • Spanish: “Aba”
  • Swahili: “Aba”
  • Swedish: “Aba, Nigeria”
  • Swedish: “Aba”
  • Talysh: “Aba”
  • Tamil: “அபா”
  • Telugu: “అబా”
  • Thai: “อาปา”
  • Turkish: “Aba”
  • Ukrainian: “Аба (місто, Нігерія)”
  • Ukrainian: “Аба (Нігерія)”
  • Ukrainian: “Аба”
  • Urdu: “آبا، نائیجیریا”
  • Urdu: “آبا”
  • Uzbek: “Aba”
  • Venetian: “Aba”
  • Vietnamese: “Aba”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Aba, Abia”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Aba”
  • Yoruba: “Aba”
  • Yoruba: “Abá”

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