Abia State
Abia is a state in the Southeastern region of Nigeria. The state's capital is Umuahia and its most populous city is Aba. The legislature is the Abia State House of Assembly.Photo: Segunfodeke, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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Top destinations include Aba and Umuahia.
Aba
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Aba is a city in Abia State, South East Nigeria, 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.
Umuahia
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Umuahia is a city of about 774,000 in Abia State, South East Nigeria. Umuahia is renowned for being a railway and agricultural market center, which attracts traders and farmers from neighbouring towns to sell their produce, such as yams, cassava, corn, taro, citrus fruits, and palm oil and kernels.
Okigwe
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Okigwe is a city in Imo State in South East Nigeria. It is the third largest city, after Owerri and Orlu, in Imo state. Okigwe is on the Port Harcourt-Enugu-Maiduguri rail line.
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Umu Nneochi
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Umu-Nneochi or Umunneochi is a Local Government Area in Abia State, Nigeria. Officially known as "Nneochi", Umunneochi is made up of three major septs: Umuchieze, Nneato, and Isuochi.
Abiriba
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Abiriba pronounced is an ancient Enuda kingdom in Abia State, in southeastern Nigeria, traditionally an Igbo speaking region. It is in the Ohafia local government area.
Abia State
- Type: State with 4,220,000 residents
- Description: state in Nigeria
- Also known as: “Abia” and “Abia state”
- Neighbors: Akwa Ibom State, Cross River State, Ebonyi State, Enugu State, Imo State, and Rivers State
- Categories: state of Nigeria and locality
- Location: South East Nigeria, Nigeria, West Africa, Africa
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Latitude of center
5.4541° or 5° 27′ 15″ northLongitude of center
7.5153° or 7° 30′ 55″ eastPopulation
4,220,000Elevation
142 metres (466 feet)OpenStreetMap ID
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Yue Chinese—“Abia State” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “አቢያ ግዛት”
- Arabic: “ولاية أبيا”
- Azerbaijani: “Abia ştatı”
- Basque: “Abia estatua”
- Belarusian: “Абія”
- Bengali: “আবিয়া অঙ্গরাজ্য”
- Bulgarian: “Абия”
- Catalan: “Abia”
- Cebuano: “Abia State”
- Central Kanuri: “Abia”
- Chinese: “Abia Chiu”
- Chinese: “阿比亚州”
- Chinese: “阿比亞州”
- Croatian: “Abia (država)”
- Croatian: “Abia”
- Czech: “Abia”
- Danish: “Abia”
- Dutch: “Abia”
- Esperanto: “Abia Ŝtato”
- Esperanto: “Abia”
- Esperanto: “subŝtato Abia”
- Estonian: “Abia osariik”
- Finnish: “Abia”
- French: “Abia State, Nigeria”
- French: “Abia”
- French: “Etat d’Abia”
- Fulah: “Abia”
- Galician: “Estado de Abia”
- Georgian: “აბიის შტატი”
- German: “Abia”
- German: “NG-AB”
- Greek: “Αμπία”
- Gujarati: “અબિયા સ્ટેટ”
- Gun: “Abia”
- Gun: “Ayimatẹn Abia Tọn”
- Hausa: “Abiya”
- Hausa: “Jihar Abiya”
- Hebrew: “אביה”
- Hindi: “अबिया राज्य”
- Hindi: “आबिया राज्य”
- Hungarian: “Abia állam”
- Hungarian: “Abia”
- Igala: “Abia”
- Igbo: “Abia State”
- Igbo: “Abia”
- Igbo: “Nkeji Ochíchííwu Abia”
- Igbo: “Ȯha Abia”
- Igbo: “Ȯra Abia”
- Igbo: “Steeti Abia”
- Indonesian: “Abia (negara bagian nigeria)”
- Indonesian: “Abia (Nigeria)”
- Indonesian: “Abia”
- Irish: “Ȯra Abia”
- Italian: “Abia”
- Japanese: “アビア州”
- Javanese: “Negara Abia”
- Kannada: “ಅಬಿಯಾ ರಾಜ್ಯ”
- Karekare: “Abia”
- Kazakh: “Абия облысы”
- Kirghiz: “Абия штаты”
- Korean: “아비아주”
- Kurdish: “Abia”
- Latvian: “Abija”
- Lithuanian: “Abija”
- Lithuanian: “Abijos valstija”
- Malay: “Abia State”
- Marathi: “अबिया राज्य”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Abia Chiu”
- Nigerian Pidgin: “Abia State”
- Nigerian Pidgin: “Abia Stet”
- Northern Frisian: “Abia”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Abia”
- Norwegian: “Abia”
- Nupe-Nupe-Tako: “Abia State”
- Obolo: “Abia”
- Oromo: “Naannoo Abia”
- Panjabi: “ਅਬੀਆ ਰਾਜ”
- Persian: “اراضی ابیا”
- Persian: “ایالت ابیا”
- Polish: “Abia”
- Portuguese: “Abia”
- Portuguese: “Estado de Abia”
- Pushto: “د ابیا ایالت”
- Romanian: “Abia”
- Romanian: “Statul Abia”
- Russian: “Абиа”
- Russian: “Абия”
- Serbian: “Абија”
- Sindhi: “ابيا رياست”
- Sinhala: “අබියා ප්රාන්තය”
- Sinhala: “අබියා රාජ්ය”
- Slovenian: “Abia”
- Somali: “Gobolka Abia”
- South Azerbaijani: “ابیا ایالتی”
- Spanish: “Abia”
- Spanish: “Estado de Abia”
- Swahili: “Abia State”
- Swahili: “Abia”
- Swedish: “Abia”
- Tajik: “Вилояти Abia”
- Tamil: “அபியா மாநிலம்”
- Tatar: “Abia дәүләте”
- Telugu: “ఆబియా రాష్ట్రము”
- Telugu: “ఆబియా స్టేట్”
- Thai: “รัฐอาเบีย”
- Thai: “รัฐอาไบอา”
- Tumbuka: “Abia State, Nigeria”
- Turkish: “Abia Eyaleti”
- Turkish: “Abia”
- Ukrainian: “Абія”
- Urdu: “ابیا اسٹیٹ”
- Urdu: “ابیا ریاست”
- Uzbek: “Abia viloyati”
- Vietnamese: “Bang Abia”
- Waray (Philippines): “Abia (estado)”
- Waray (Philippines): “Abia”
- Western Mari: “Абия (штат)”
- Western Mari: “Абия”
- Wu Chinese: “阿比亚州”
- Yoruba: “Abia State”
- Yoruba: “Ipinle Abia”
- Yoruba: “Ìpínlẹ̀ Abia”
- Yue Chinese: “阿比亞州”
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