Bayelsa State

Bayelsa State is in . It was created in 1996 and was created from the popular . The capital city is . According to the 2006 population census conducted in Nigeria, Bayelsa State recorded a total population count of over 1.7 million count ranking at the time 35th of the 36 states.
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Yenogoa is the capital city of Bayelsa State with a population of around 350,000 people.
is a town in Bayelsa State, Nigeria.
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is a town in Bayelsa State, , and the headquarters of Local Government Area.
is a town and the headquarters of Local Government Area in Bayelsa State, .

Bayelsa State

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Latitude of center
4.763° or 4° 45′ 47″ north
Longitude of center
6.0289° or 6° 1′ 44″ east
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2163706693
Open­Street­Map feature
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Geo­Names ID
2595344
Wiki­data ID
Q532153

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In Other Languages

From Amharic to Yue Chinese—“Bayelsa State” goes by many names.
  • Amharic: “ባይelስা ግዛት”
  • Arabic: “بايلسا”
  • Arabic: “ولاية بايلسا”
  • Azerbaijani: “Bayelsa ştatı”
  • Bengali: “বেলসা অঙ্গরাজ্য”
  • Bole: “Bayelsa”
  • Bulgarian: “Байелса”
  • Catalan: “Bayelsa”
  • Cebuano: “Bayelsa State”
  • Central Kanuri: “Bayelsa”
  • Chinese: “巴耶尔萨州”
  • Croatian: “Bayelsa”
  • Czech: “Bayelsa”
  • Danish: “Bayelsa”
  • Dutch: “Bayelsa”
  • Esperanto: “Bajelsa Ŝtato”
  • Esperanto: “Bajelsa subŝtato”
  • Esperanto: “Bajelso”
  • Esperanto: “Bayelsa”
  • Estonian: “Bayelsa osariik”
  • Estonian: “Bayelsa”
  • Finnish: “Bayelsa”
  • French: “Bayelsa”
  • Fulah: “Bayelsa”
  • Galician: “Bayelsa”
  • Georgian: “ბაიელსის შტატი”
  • German: “Bayelsa”
  • Greek: “Μπαγιέλσα”
  • Gujarati: “બાયલ્સા સ્ટેટ”
  • Gun: “Ayimatẹn Bayelsa Tọn”
  • Hausa: “Bayelsa”
  • Hausa: “Jahar Bayelsa”
  • Hausa: “Jiha ce a Najeriya”
  • Hebrew: “ביילסה”
  • Hindi: “बायेल्सा राज्य”
  • Igala: “Bayelsa”
  • Igbo: “Bayelsa Steetị”
  • Igbo: “Ȯra Bayelsa”
  • Indonesian: “Bayelsa”
  • Italian: “Bayelsa”
  • Japanese: “バイエルサ州”
  • Javanese: “Bayelsa State”
  • Kannada: “ಬೇಯೆಲ್ಸಾ ರಾಜ್ಯ”
  • Karekare: “Bayelsa”
  • Kazakh: “Байелса штаты”
  • Kirghiz: “Байелса штаты”
  • Korean: “바이엘사주”
  • Kurdish: “Bayelsa”
  • Latvian: “Bajelsa”
  • Latvian: “Bajelsas štats”
  • Lithuanian: “Bajelsa”
  • Lithuanian: “Bajelsos valstija”
  • Malay: “Bayelsa State”
  • Marathi: “बायल्स राज्य”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Bayelsa Chiu”
  • Nigerian Pidgin: “Bayelsa State”
  • Northern Frisian: “Bayelsa (Bundesstoot)”
  • Northern Frisian: “Bayelsa”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Bayelsa”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bayelsa”
  • Norwegian: “Bayelsa”
  • Nupe-Nupe-Tako: “Bayelsa”
  • Obolo: “Bayelisa”
  • Oromo: “Bayelsa State”
  • Panjabi: “ਬਾਏਲਸਾ ਸਟੇਟ”
  • Persian: “ایالت بایلسا”
  • Polish: “Bayelsa”
  • Portuguese: “Bayelsa”
  • Pushto: “بایلسا ایالت”
  • Romanian: “Statul Bayelsa”
  • Russian: “Байельса”
  • Russian: “Байэлса”
  • Serbian: “Бајелса”
  • Sindhi: “بيئلسا رياست”
  • Sinhala: “බයෙල්සා ප්‍රාන්තය”
  • Sinhala: “බයෙල්සා රාජ්‍ය”
  • Slovenian: “Bayelsa”
  • Somali: “Bayelsa State”
  • South Azerbaijani: “بایلسا ایالتی”
  • Spanish: “Bayelsa”
  • Spanish: “Estado de Bayelsa”
  • Swahili: “Jimbo la Bayelsa”
  • Swedish: “Bayelsa”
  • Tajik: “Вилояти Байелса”
  • Tamil: “பஎல்ஸா மாநிலம்”
  • Tatar: “Bayelsa Ştaty”
  • Telugu: “బేయెల్సా రాష్ట్రం”
  • Thai: “รัฐบาเยลซา”
  • Tumbuka: “Bayelsa State, Nigeria”
  • Turkish: “Bayelsa Eyaleti”
  • Turkish: “Bayelsa”
  • Tyap: “A̱byin Ba̱yelsa”
  • Tyap: “Si̱tet Ba̱yelsa”
  • Ukrainian: “Баєлса”
  • Ukrainian: “Баєльса”
  • Urdu: “بایلسا اسٹیٹ”
  • Urdu: “بایلسا ریاست”
  • Uzbek: “Bayelsa shtati”
  • Vietnamese: “Bang Bayelsa”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Bayelsa (estado)”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Bayelsa”
  • Western Mari: “Байельса”
  • Yoruba: “Bayelsa State”
  • Yoruba: “Ìpínlẹ̀ Bayelsa”
  • Yue Chinese: “巴耶爾薩州”

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