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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. It is found in the South South of Nigeria. Bayelsa was carved out of Rivers State in 1996.

is a town in Bayelsa State, Nigeria. It is a popular town in Bayelsa state owing to the heavy presence of natural resources in the town which has contributed largely to the development of the area.

Bayelsa State

Latitude of center
4.763° or 4° 45′ 47″ north
Longitude of center
6.0289° or 6° 1′ 44″ east
Population
2,000,000
Elevation
3 metres (10 feet)
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2163706693
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
2595344
Wiki­data ID
Q532153
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Bayelsa State” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “بايلسا”
  • Arabic: “ولاية بايلسا”
  • Azerbaijani: “Bayelsa ştatı”
  • Bengali: “বেলসা অঙ্গরাজ্য”
  • Bulgarian: “Байелса”
  • Catalan: “Bayelsa”
  • Cebuano: “Bayelsa State”
  • Central Kanuri: “Bayelsa”
  • Chinese: “Bayelsa Chiu”
  • Chinese: “巴耶尔萨州”
  • Chinese: “巴耶爾薩州”
  • 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”
  • Kannada: “ಬೇಯೆಲ್ಸಾ ರಾಜ್ಯ”
  • Korean: “바이엘사주”
  • Kurdish: “Bayelsa”
  • Latvian: “Bajelsa”
  • Latvian: “Bajelsas štats”
  • 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”
  • Obolo: “Bayelisa”
  • Persian: “ایالت بایلسا”
  • Polish: “Bayelsa”
  • Portuguese: “Bayelsa”
  • Romanian: “Statul Bayelsa”
  • Russian: “Байельса”
  • Russian: “Байэлса”
  • Serbian: “Бајелса”
  • Sindhi: “بيئلسا رياست”
  • Sinhala: “බයෙල්සා ප්‍රාන්තය”
  • Sinhala: “බයෙල්සා රාජ්‍ය”
  • Slovenian: “Bayelsa”
  • South Azerbaijani: “بایلسا ایالتی”
  • Spanish: “Bayelsa”
  • Spanish: “Estado de Bayelsa”
  • Swahili: “Jimbo la Bayelsa”
  • Swedish: “Bayelsa”
  • Tamil: “பஎல்ஸா மாநிலம்”
  • Telugu: “బేయెల్సా రాష్ట్రం”
  • Thai: “รัฐบาเยลซา”
  • Tumbuka: “Bayelsa State, Nigeria”
  • Turkish: “Bayelsa Eyaleti”
  • Turkish: “Bayelsa”
  • Tyap: “Si̱tet Ba̱yelsa”
  • Ukrainian: “Баєлса”
  • Ukrainian: “Баєльса”
  • Urdu: “بایلسا اسٹیٹ”
  • Urdu: “بایلسا ریاست”
  • 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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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Bayelsa State”. Photo: Mizzleighpix, CC BY-SA 4.0.