North Central Nigeria
Federal Capital Territory
Municipal Area Council

Abuja

Abuja is the capital of . Because most Nigerian government agencies are now headquartered in Abuja and most other countries' embassies have been relocated from Lagos to Abuja, it is a surprisingly expensive city.
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is a district near Abuja in the , . It is one of the top notch areas in the state.

is a developed district in Abuja Phase 3 which has the largest single housing estate in Nigeria. The area is quite flourishing and as a result it is often referred to as a city on its own.

is a town in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory, . It's occupied by top government officials and it's a really expensive place.

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is a district area in Abuja phase 2. It is a developing district.

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is a district in Abuja. is a very important district in Abuja, as in fact it is seen as the principal business and administrative district of Abuja as there are a lot of tourists attraction in the district.

New is a town in . It is a district of Local Government Area, , and is among the towns that make up the Karu Urban Area, a conurbation of towns stretching into the Federal Capital Territory.

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, Abuja is a residential district and town in Abuja. The town covers approximately 50 km2. The community is a countryside settlement expanding on the urban fringe of Abuja.

is a rural area a few kilometres to the east of Abuja. It is part of the Federal Capital Territory.

is a satellite town within the Abuja Municipal Area Council. Its geographical coordinate is 8°54'0"N,7°34'22" E It is located along Nyanya expressway.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Apostolic Nunciature of the Holy See in Nigeria and Embassy of Switzerland to Nigeria.

Government office
The Apostolic Nunciature to Nigeria is the diplomatic mission of the Holy See to . The Apostolic Nuncio to Nigeria is an ecclesiastical office of the Catholic Church in Nigeria, with the rank of an ambassador.

Government office
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is a government office.

Government office
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is a government office.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Durumi.

is a district in Abuja.

Abuja

Latitude
9.0643° or 9° 3′ 52″ north
Longitude
7.4893° or 7° 29′ 22″ east
Population
776,000
Elevation
476 metres (1,562 feet)
IATA airport code
ABV
United Nations Location Code
NG ABV
Open location code
6FX93F7Q+PP
Open­Street­Map ID
node 31203257
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2352778
Wiki­data ID
Q3787
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Zulu—“Abuja” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Abuja”
  • Afrikaans: “Abuja”
  • Albanian: “Abuja”
  • Albanian: “Abuxha”
  • Amharic: “አቡጃ”
  • Arabic: “أبوجا”
  • Aragonese: “Abuja”
  • Armenian: “Աբուջա”
  • Arpitan: “Abuja”
  • Asturian: “Abuya”
  • Awadhi: “अबुजा”
  • Azerbaijani: “Abuca”
  • Balinese: “Abuja”
  • Bashkir: “Абуджа”
  • Basque: “Abuja”
  • Belarusian: “Абуджа”
  • Bengali: “আবুজা”
  • Bosnian: “Abuja”
  • Breton: “Abuja”
  • Bulgarian: “Абуджа”
  • Burmese: “အဘူဂျာမြို့”
  • Catalan: “Abuja”
  • Cebuano: “Abuja”
  • Central Bikol: “Abuja”
  • Central Kanuri: “ABJ”
  • Central Kanuri: “Abuja”
  • Central Kurdish: “ئەبووجا”
  • Chechen: “Абуджа”
  • Chinese: “Abuja”
  • Chinese: “阿布加”
  • Chinese: “阿布札”
  • Chinese: “阿布賈”
  • Chinese: “阿布贾”
  • Chuvash: “Абуджа”
  • Croatian: “Abuja”
  • Czech: “Abuja”
  • Dagbani: “Abuja”
  • Danish: “Abuja”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Abuca”
  • Dutch: “Abuja”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ابوجا”
  • Esperanto: “Abuĝo”
  • Estonian: “Abuja”
  • Ewe: “Abuja”
  • Extremaduran: “Abuya”
  • Fanti: “Abuja”
  • Farefare: “Abuja”
  • Faroese: “Abuja”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Abuja”
  • Finnish: “Abuja”
  • French: “Abuja”
  • Fulah: “Abuja”
  • Fulah: “FCT”
  • Ga: “Abuja”
  • Galician: “Abuja”
  • Georgian: “აბუჯა”
  • German: “Abuja”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “ABJ”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Abuja”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “ABV”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “FCT”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Federal Capital Territory”
  • Greek: “Αμπούζα”
  • Greek: “Αμπούτζα”
  • Guarani: “Avúja”
  • Gujarati: “અબુજા”
  • Gun: “Abuja”
  • Haitian: “Abouja”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Abuja”
  • Hausa: “Abuja”
  • Hausa: “F. C. T”
  • Hebrew: “אבוג’ה”
  • Hebrew: “אבוגה”
  • Hindi: “अबुजा”
  • Hungarian: “Abuja”
  • Icelandic: “Abuja”
  • Icelandic: “Abútja”
  • Ido: “Abuja”
  • Igala: “Abuja”
  • Igbo: “Abuja”
  • Inari Sami: “Abuja”
  • Indonesian: “Abuja”
  • Interlingua: “Abuja”
  • Interlingue: “Abuja”
  • Irish: “Abuja”
  • Italian: “Abuja”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Abuja”
  • Japanese: “アブジャ”
  • Javanese: “Abuja”
  • Kabiyè: “Abuuja”
  • Kabyle: “Abuja”
  • Kannada: “ಅಬುಜಾ”
  • Kannada: “ಅಬೂಜ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Abuja”
  • Kashmiri: “اَبُجا”
  • Kazakh: “Абуджа”
  • Kikuyu: “Abuja”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Abuja”
  • Kirghiz: “Абужа”
  • Kongo: “Abuja”
  • Korean: “아부자”
  • Kotava: “Abuja”
  • Kurdish: “Abuja”
  • Kurdish: “Ebuca”
  • Kusaal: “Abuja”
  • Latin: “Abugia”
  • Latvian: “Abudža”
  • Ligurian: “Abuja”
  • Lingala: “Abuja”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Abuja”
  • Lithuanian: “Abudža”
  • Livvi: “Abudža”
  • Lombard: “Abuja”
  • Luxembourgish: “Abuja”
  • Macedonian: “Абуџа”
  • Maithili: “अबुजा”
  • Malagasy: “Abuja”
  • Malay: “Abuja”
  • Malayalam: “അബുജ”
  • Maltese: “Abuja”
  • Marathi: “अबुजा”
  • Mazanderani: “آبوجا”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Abuja”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Abuja”
  • Minangkabau: “Abuja”
  • Mingrelian: “აბუჯა”
  • Moksha: “Абуджа”
  • Mongolian: “Абужа”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “أبوجا”
  • Mossi: “Abuja”
  • Navajo: “Tsétsoh Dijoolí”
  • Nepali: “अबुजा”
  • Nigerian Pidgin: “Abuja”
  • Nigerian Pidgin: “F. C. T”
  • Northern Frisian: “Abuja”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Abuja”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Abuja”
  • Norwegian: “Abuja”
  • Novial: “Abuja”
  • Nupe-Nupe-Tako: “Abuja”
  • Obolo: “Abuja”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Abuja”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Abūdga”
  • Oriya: “ଅବୁଜା”
  • Ossetian: “Абуджæ”
  • Ossetian: “Абуджа”
  • Pampanga: “Abuja”
  • Panjabi: “ਅਬੁਜਾ”
  • Papiamento: “Abuja”
  • Persian: “آبوجا”
  • Piemontese: “Abuja”
  • Polish: “Abudża”
  • Portuguese: “Abuja”
  • Pushto: “آبوجا”
  • Quechua: “Abuja”
  • Romanian: “Abuja”
  • Russian: “Абуджа”
  • Samogitian: “Abodža”
  • Santali: “ᱟᱵᱩᱡᱟ”
  • Saraiki: “ابوجا”
  • Sardinian: “Abuja”
  • Scots: “Abuja”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Abuja”
  • Serbian: “Абуџа”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Abuja”
  • Shona: “Abuja”
  • Silesian: “Abudża”
  • Sindhi: “ابوجا”
  • Sinhala: “අබුජා”
  • Slovak: “Abuja”
  • Slovenian: “Abuja”
  • Somali: “Abuja”
  • South Azerbaijani: “آبوجا”
  • Southern Dagaare: “Abuja”
  • Spanish: “ABJ”
  • Spanish: “Abuja”
  • Spanish: “Abuya”
  • Spanish: “FCT”
  • Spanish: “La ciudad bella”
  • Swahili: “Abuja”
  • Swedish: “Abuja”
  • Tagalog: “Abuja”
  • Tajik: “Абуҷа”
  • Talysh: “Abuca”
  • Talysh: “Abuča”
  • Tamil: “அபுஜா”
  • Tatar: “Абуҗа”
  • Telugu: “అబూజా”
  • Telugu: “అబ్యూజా”
  • Thai: “อาบูจา”
  • Tibetan: “ཨ་པུ་ཅ།”
  • Turkish: “Abuja”
  • Twi: “Abuja”
  • Tyap: “Abuja”
  • Tyap: “A̱buja”
  • Udmurt: “Абуджа”
  • Ukrainian: “Абуджа”
  • Urdu: “ابوجا”
  • Uzbek: “Abuja”
  • Venetian: “Abuja”
  • Veps: “Abudž”
  • Veps: “Abuja”
  • Vietnamese: “Abuja”
  • Volapük: “Abuja”
  • Võro: “Abuja”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Abuja”
  • Welsh: “Abuja”
  • Western Frisian: “Abuja”
  • Western Mari: “Абуджа”
  • Western Panjabi: “ابوجا”
  • Wu Chinese: “阿布贾”
  • Xhosa: “Abuja”
  • Yiddish: “אבודזשא”
  • Yoruba: “Abùjá”
  • Yoruba: “Àbújá”
  • Yue Chinese: “阿布賈”
  • Zulu: “i-Abuja”
  • “ABJ”
  • “Abodža”
  • “Abuja”
  • “Abuya”
  • “ABV”
  • “FCT”
  • “Federal Capital Territory”

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