Benue State
Benue State is a state in North Central part of Nigeria. It shares border with Boki LGA in Cross River State…| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Makurdi and Gboko.
Makurdi
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Makurdi is a city of 365,000 people, and the capital of Benue State of North Central Nigeria. It sits in a very agricultural area along the Benue River with the fitting moniker of food basket of the nation.
Gboko
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Gboko is one of the busiest towns in Benue State. Aside from Makurdi the state capital, Gboko is one of the other important commercial, administrative headquarters of the state. It is also where the highest traditional ruling head, the Tor-Tiv sits.
Otukpo
Otukpo is a town in Benue State, Nigeria located in the Middle Belt Region of Nigeria. It is also the eponymous name of a subgroup of the Idoma people.Destinations to Discover
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Katsina-ala
Katsina-ala is a cosmopolitan settlement that sits on the Katsina-ala River. The town is almost surrounded by water and it is linked to other major parts of the state via a dual lane bridge over the river.Benue State
- Type: State with 5,180,000 residents
- Description: state in Nigeria
- Also known as: “Benue”
- Neighbors: Cross River State, Ebonyi State, Enugu State, Kogi State, Nasarawa State, and Taraba State
- Categories: state of Nigeria and locality
- Location: North Central Nigeria, Nigeria, West Africa, Africa
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Latitude of center
7.3506° or 7° 21′ 2″ northLongitude of center
8.7773° or 8° 46′ 38″ eastPopulation
5,180,000Elevation
164 metres (538 feet)OpenStreetMap ID
node 2163706694OpenStreetMap feature
place=state
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yoruba—“Benue State” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ولاية بينو”
- Armenian: “Բենուեի Զուտ Արժեքը”
- Azerbaijani: “Benue ştatı”
- Belarusian: “Бенуэ (штат)”
- Belarusian: “Бенуэ”
- Bengali: “বেনু রাজ্য”
- Bulgarian: “Бенуе”
- Catalan: “Estat de Benue”
- Cebuano: “Benue State”
- Central Kanuri: “Benue”
- Chinese: “Benue Chiu”
- Chinese: “贝努埃州”
- Czech: “Benue (stát)”
- Czech: “Benue”
- Danish: “Benue”
- Dutch: “Benue”
- Esperanto: “Benue Ŝtato”
- Esperanto: “Benue”
- Esperanto: “subŝtato Benue”
- Estonian: “Benue osariik”
- Finnish: “Benue”
- French: “Benue”
- Fulah: “Diiwal Benue”
- Fulah: “Diiwal Benuwe”
- Galician: “Estado de Benue”
- Georgian: “ბენუეს შტატი”
- German: “Benue”
- Greek: “Μπένιου”
- Gujarati: “બેન્યુ સ્ટેટ”
- Hausa: “Benue”
- Hausa: “Jahar Benue”
- Hausa: “jahar”
- Hebrew: “בנו”
- Hindi: “बेनुए राज्य”
- Hindi: “बेनू राज्य”
- Igala: “Benue”
- Igbo: “Benue Steetị”
- Igbo: “Ȯra Benue”
- Indonesian: “Benue”
- Italian: “Benue”
- Japanese: “ベヌエ州”
- Kannada: “ಬೆನ್ಯು ರಾಜ್ಯ”
- Korean: “베누에주”
- Kurdish: “Benué”
- Latvian: “Benue štats”
- Latvian: “Benue”
- Lithuanian: “Benujės valstija”
- Malay: “Benue State”
- Marathi: “बेनू राज्य”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Benue Chiu”
- Nigerian Pidgin: “Benue state”
- Nigerian Pidgin: “Benue State”
- Northern Frisian: “Benue (Bundesstoot)”
- Northern Frisian: “Benue”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Benue”
- Norwegian: “Benue”
- Obolo: “Benuwe”
- Persian: “ایالت بنوئه”
- Polish: “Benue”
- Portuguese: “Benue”
- Romanian: “Statul Benue”
- Russian: “Бенуэ”
- Serbian: “Бенуе”
- Sindhi: “بينو رياست”
- Sinhala: “බෙනුයි ප්රාන්තය”
- Sinhala: “බෙනුයි රාජ්ය”
- Slovenian: “Benue”
- South Azerbaijani: “بنوئه ایالتی”
- Spanish: “Benue”
- Spanish: “Estado de Benue”
- Swahili: “Jimbo la Benue”
- Swedish: “Benue”
- Tamil: “பேணுவே மாநிலம்”
- Telugu: “బెన్యూ రాష్ట్రం”
- Thai: “เบนิว”
- Tumbuka: “Benue State, Nigeria”
- Turkish: “Benue Eyaleti”
- Turkish: “Benue”
- Tyap: “Si̱tet Benuwe”
- Ukrainian: “Бенуе”
- Urdu: “بینوے اسٹیٹ”
- Urdu: “بینوے ریاست”
- Vietnamese: “Bang Benue”
- Waray (Philippines): “Benue (estado)”
- Waray (Philippines): “Benue”
- Western Mari: “Бенуэ”
- Yoruba: “Ìpínlẹ̀ Bẹ́núé”
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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 “Benue State”. Photo: Agbendeh Simon, CC BY-SA 4.0.