Abuja
Abuja is the capital of Nigeria. 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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National Hospital
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Abuja
- City with about 1,690,000 residents
- …lies at an elevation of around 360 metres (1,180 feet)
- …has the IATA airport code ABV
- Description: capital city of Nigeria
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Latitude
9.0643° or 9° 3′ 52″ north
Longitude
7.4893° or 7° 29′ 22″ east
UN/LOCODE
NG ABV
Open location code
6FX93F7Q+PP
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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In Other Languages
From Achinese to Zulu—“Abuja” goes by many names.
- Achinese: “Abuja”
- Afrikaans: “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”
- Bole: “Abuja”
- Bosnian: “Abuja”
- Breton: “Abuja”
- Bulgarian: “Абуджа”
- Burmese: “အဘူဂျာမြို့”
- Catalan: “Abuja”
- Cebuano: “Abuja”
- Central Bikol: “Abuja”
- Central Kanuri: “Abuja”
- Central Kurdish: “ئەبووجا”
- Chechen: “Абуджа”
- 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”
- Extremaduran: “Abuya”
- Faroese: “Abuja”
- Fiji Hindi: “Abuja”
- Finnish: “Abuja”
- French: “Abuja”
- Fulah: “Abuja”
- Fulah: “FCT”
- Galician: “Abuja”
- Georgian: “აბუჯა”
- German: “Abuja”
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Abuja”
- Greek: “Αμπούζα”
- Greek: “Αμπούτζα”
- Guarani: “Avúja”
- Gujarati: “અબુજા”
- Gun: “Abuja”
- Haitian: “Abouja”
- Hakka Chinese: “Abuja”
- Hausa: “Abuja”
- Hausa: “F. C. T”
- Hebrew: “אבוג’ה”
- 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”
- Jju: “A̱buja”
- Kabiyè: “Abuuja”
- Kabyle: “Abuja”
- Kannada: “ಅಬುಜಾ”
- Kara-Kalpak: “Abuja”
- Karachay-Balkar: “Абуджа”
- Karekare: “Abuja”
- Kashmiri: “اَبُجا”
- Kazakh: “Абуджа”
- Kikuyu: “Abuja”
- Kinyarwanda: “Abuja”
- Kirghiz: “Абужа”
- Kongo: “Abuja”
- Korean: “아부자”
- Kotava: “Abuja”
- Kurdish: “Abuja”
- Kurdish: “Ebuca”
- 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: “Abuudja”
- 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”
- Spanish: “Abuja”
- Spanish: “Abuya”
- Spanish: “La ciudad bella”
- Swahili: “Abuja”
- Swedish: “Abuja”
- Tagalog: “Abuja”
- Tajik: “Абуҷа”
- Talysh: “Abuča”
- Tamil: “அபுஜா”
- Tatar: “Абуҗа”
- Telugu: “అబూజా”
- Telugu: “అబ్యూజా”
- Thai: “อาบูจา”
- Tibetan: “ཨ་པུ་ཅ།”
- Turkish: “Abuja”
- Tyap: “A̱buja”
- Udmurt: “Абуджа”
- Ukrainian: “Абуджа”
- Urdu: “ابوجا”
- Uzbek: “Abuja”
- Venetian: “Abuja”
- Veps: “Abudž”
- 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: “Àbújá”
- Yue Chinese: “阿布札”
- Yue Chinese: “阿布賈”
- Zulu: “i-Abuja”
- “ABJ”
- “ABV”
- “Federal Capital Territory”
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