Borno State
Borno State is a state in North East Nigeria. It is the second-largest state in the area of the 36 states in the country, only behind Niger State which is the largest. In 2016, its population was estimated to be about 5.86 million.
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Borno State
- Type: state of Nigeria with 6,110,000 residents
- Description: state in Nigeria
- Also known as: “Bornu”, “Etat de Borno”, “Home of peace”, “Ipinle Borno”, “NG-BO”, “subŝtato Borno”, “بورنو”, “بورنو اسٹیٹ”, “ولايه بورنو”, and “博爾諾省”
- Neighbors: Adamawa State, Gombe State, and Yobe State
- Location: North East Nigeria, Nigeria, West Africa, Africa
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Latitude of center
11.5° or 11° 30′ north
Longitude of center
13° east
Population
6,110,000
Elevation
353 metres (1,158 feet)
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Yue Chinese—“Borno State” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ቦርኖ ግዛት”
- Arabic: “ولاية برنو”
- Arabic: “ولاية بورنو”
- Armenian: “Բորնո”
- Azerbaijani: “Borno ştatı”
- Basque: “Borno”
- Bengali: “বর্নো অঙ্গরাজ্য”
- Bislama: “Borno State”
- Breton: “Borno”
- Bulgarian: “Борно”
- Catalan: “Borno”
- Catalan: “estat de Borno”
- Catalan: “Estat de Borno”
- Cebuano: “Borno State”
- Central Kanuri: “Borno”
- Chinese: “博尔诺州”
- Chinese: “博爾諾州”
- Croatian: “Borno (država)”
- Croatian: “Borno”
- Czech: “Borno”
- Danish: “Borno”
- Dimli (individual language): “Borno”
- Dutch: “Borno”
- Esperanto: “Borno Ŝtato”
- Esperanto: “Borno”
- Estonian: “Borno osariik”
- Estonian: “Borno”
- Finnish: “Borno”
- French: “Borno”
- French: “État de Borno”
- Fulah: “Diiwal Borno”
- Galician: “Estado de Borno”
- Georgian: “ბორნოს შტატი”
- German: “Borno”
- Greek: “Πολιτεία Μπόρνο”
- Gujarati: “બોર્નો સ્ટેટ”
- Hausa: “Borno”
- Hausa: “Jihar Borno”
- Hebrew: “בורנו”
- Hindi: “बोरनो राज्य”
- Igala: “Borno State”
- Igbo: “Ȯra Borno”
- Indonesian: “Borno”
- Italian: “Borno”
- Japanese: “ボルノ州”
- Javanese: “Negara Borno”
- Kannada: “ಬೊರ್ನೊ ರಾಜ್ಯ”
- Karekare: “Barno”
- Kazakh: “Борно облысы”
- Kirghiz: “Борно штаты”
- Korean: “보르노주”
- Kurdish: “Borno”
- Latvian: “Borno štats”
- Latvian: “Borno”
- Lithuanian: “Bornas”
- Lithuanian: “Borno valstija”
- Macedonian: “Борно”
- Malay: “Borno State”
- Marathi: “बोर्नो राज्य”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Borno Chiu”
- Nepali: “बोर्नो राज्य”
- Nigerian Pidgin: “Borno state”
- Nigerian Pidgin: “Borno State”
- Northern Frisian: “Borno (Bundesstoot)”
- Northern Frisian: “Borno”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Borno”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Borno”
- Norwegian: “Borno”
- Obolo: “Bọrọnu”
- Oromo: “Naannoo Borno”
- Panjabi: “ਬੋਰਨੋ ਰਾਜ”
- Persian: “ایالت بورنو”
- Polish: “Borno”
- Portuguese: “Borno”
- Pushto: “د بورنو ایالت”
- Romanian: “Borno”
- Romanian: “Statul Borno”
- Russian: “Борно”
- Serbian: “Борно”
- Sindhi: “بورنو رياست”
- Sinhala: “බොර්නෝ රාජ්ය”
- Sinhala: “බෝර්නෝ ප්රාන්තය”
- Slovenian: “Borno”
- Somali: “Gobolka Borno”
- South Azerbaijani: “بورنو ایالتی”
- Spanish: “Borno”
- Spanish: “Estado de Borno”
- Swahili: “Borno”
- Swedish: “Borno”
- Tajik: “Вилояти Borno”
- Tamil: “போர்னோ மாநிலம்”
- Tatar: “Borno дәүләте”
- Telugu: “బోర్నో రాష్ట్రం”
- Thai: “รัฐโบร์โน”
- Tumbuka: “Borno State, Nigeria”
- Turkish: “Borno Eyaleti”
- Turkish: “Borno”
- Tyap: “A̱byin Ba̱ri̱no”
- Tyap: “Si̱tet Ba̱ri̱no”
- Ukrainian: “Борно”
- Urdu: “بورنو ریاست”
- Uzbek: “Borno viloyati”
- Vietnamese: “Borno”
- Waray (Philippines): “Borno (estado)”
- Waray (Philippines): “Borno”
- Welsh: “Borno”
- Western Mari: “Борно”
- Yoruba: “Borno State”
- Yoruba: “Ìpínlẹ̀ Borno”
- Yue Chinese: “博爾諾州”
- “Borno”
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