Calabar

Calabar is the capital city of in . It is a charming and quite peaceful city. Attractions include the Slave Museum, Calabar Free Trade Zone, Tinapa Business and Tourist Resort, Cultural and Civic Centre, Calabar Port and university campuses.
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  • Type: City with 371,000 residents
  • Description: city in Nigeria
  • Also known as: “Akwa Akpa”, “Birnin Kalaba”, “Canaan city”, “Canaan City”, and “Old Calabar”

Places of Interest

Highlights: Margaret Ekpo International Airport and U. J. Esuene Stadium.

Aerodrome
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, also known…

Stadium
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The is a multi-purpose stadium in Calabar, Nigeria.

Calabar

Latitude
4.9796° or 4° 58′ 47″ north
Longitude
8.3374° or 8° 20′ 15″ east
Population
371,000
Elevation
37 metres (121 feet)
IATA airport code
CBQ
UN/LOCODE
NG CBQ
Open location code
6FPCX8HP+RW
Open­Street­Map ID
node 251608378
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2346229
Wiki­data ID
Q844091
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In Other Languages

From Amharic to Yoruba—“Calabar” goes by many names.
  • Amharic: “ካላባር”
  • Arabic: “كالابار”
  • Armenian: “Քալաբար”
  • Asturian: “Calabar”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kalabar”
  • Belarusian: “Калабар”
  • Bengali: “কালাবার”
  • Breton: “Calabar”
  • Bulgarian: “Калабар”
  • Catalan: “Calabar”
  • Cebuano: “Calabar (kapital sa estado)”
  • Cebuano: “Calabar”
  • Central Kanuri: “Calabar”
  • Chinese: “卡拉巴尔”
  • Chinese: “卡拉巴爾”
  • Croatian: “Calabar”
  • Czech: “Calabar”
  • Dagbani: “Calabar”
  • Danish: “Calabar”
  • Dutch: “Calabar”
  • Esperanto: “Kalabaro”
  • Finnish: “Calabar”
  • French: “Calabar”
  • Fulah: “Kalaba”
  • German: “Calabar”
  • Greek: “Κάλαμπαρ”
  • Gujarati: “કેલબાર”
  • Hausa: “Calabar”
  • Hausa: “Kalaba”
  • Hebrew: “קאלבאר”
  • Hindi: “कलाबार”
  • Hindi: “कालाबार”
  • Hungarian: “Calabar”
  • Igbo: “Calabar”
  • Indonesian: “Calabar”
  • Italian: “Calabar”
  • Japanese: “カラバル”
  • Javanese: “Calabar”
  • Kannada: “ಕ್ಯಾಲಬರ್”
  • Kazakh: “Калабар”
  • Kikuyu: “Karamba (Akwa Akpa)”
  • Kikuyu: “Karamba”
  • Kirghiz: “Калабар”
  • Korean: “칼라바르”
  • Latvian: “Kalabara”
  • Lithuanian: “Kalabaras”
  • Malagasy: “Calabar”
  • Malay: “Calabar”
  • Marathi: “कालबार”
  • Nigerian Pidgin: “Calabar”
  • Northern Frisian: “Calabar (Nigeeria)”
  • Northern Frisian: “Calabar”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Calabar”
  • Norwegian: “Calabar”
  • Oromo: “Calabar”
  • Panjabi: “ਕਲਾਬਾਰ”
  • Persian: “کالابار”
  • Polish: “Calabar”
  • Portuguese: “Calabar (Nigéria)”
  • Portuguese: “Calabar”
  • Pushto: “کالابار”
  • Romanian: “Calabar”
  • Russian: “Калабар”
  • Shona: “Calabar”
  • Sinhala: “කලාබර්”
  • Slovak: “Calabar”
  • Slovenian: “Calabar”
  • Somali: “Calabar”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کالابار”
  • Spanish: “Calabar”
  • Swahili: “Calabar”
  • Swedish: “Calabar”
  • Tajik: “Калабар”
  • Tamil: “களபர்”
  • Tatar: “Калабар”
  • Telugu: “కలబార్”
  • Thai: “กาลาบาร์”
  • Turkish: “Calabar”
  • Ukrainian: “Калабар”
  • Urdu: “کالابار”
  • Uzbek: “Calabar”
  • Vietnamese: “Calabar”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Calabar”
  • Yoruba: “Calabar”
  • “Calabar”

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