Damaturu

Damaturu is a city in northeastern and the capital of in northern Nigeria. It is the headquarters of the Damaturu Emirate. Damaturu is the capital and administrative headquarters of Yobe State and where the governor resides and host to State Government Ministries, Departments and Agencies.
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Latitude
11.747° or 11° 44′ 49″ north
Longitude
11.9608° or 11° 57′ 39″ east
Open location code
7F3HPXW6+Q8
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Open­Street­Map feature
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In Other Languages

From Amharic to Yoruba—“Damaturu” goes by many names.
  • Amharic: “ዳማቱሩ”
  • Arabic: “داماتورو”
  • Asturian: “Damaturu”
  • Azerbaijani: “Damaturu”
  • Bengali: “দামাতুরু”
  • Bole: “Damaturu”
  • Catalan: “Damaturu”
  • Cebuano: “Damaturu (distrito)”
  • Cebuano: “Damaturu (kapital sa estado)”
  • Cebuano: “Damaturu”
  • Central Kanuri: “Damaturu”
  • Chinese: “达马图鲁”
  • Chinese: “達馬圖魯”
  • Croatian: “Damaturu”
  • Danish: “Damaturu”
  • Dutch: “Damaturu”
  • Esperanto: “Damaturu”
  • French: “Damaturu”
  • Fulah: “Damaaturu”
  • Fulah: “Damaturu”
  • Galician: “Damaturu”
  • German: “Damaturu”
  • Hausa: “Damaturu”
  • Hausa: “LGA”
  • Hindi: “दामातुरु”
  • Igbo: “Damaturu”
  • Indonesian: “Damaturu”
  • Italian: “Damaturu”
  • Japanese: “ダマツル”
  • Japanese: “ダマトゥル”
  • Javanese: “Damaturu”
  • Karekare: “Damaturu”
  • Kazakh: “Даматуру”
  • Kirghiz: “Даматуру”
  • Korean: “다마투루”
  • Lithuanian: “Damaturu”
  • Malagasy: “Damaturu”
  • Malay: “Damaturu”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Damaturu”
  • Nigerian Pidgin: “Damaturu”
  • Northern Frisian: “Damaturu”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Damaturu”
  • Oromo: “Damaturu”
  • Panjabi: “ਦਾਮਾਤੁਰੁ”
  • Persian: “داماتورو”
  • Polish: “Damaturu”
  • Portuguese: “Damaturu”
  • Pushto: “داماتورو”
  • Romanian: “Damaturu”
  • Russian: “Даматуру”
  • Slovenian: “Damaturu”
  • Somali: “Damaturu”
  • South Azerbaijani: “داماتورو”
  • Spanish: “Damaturu”
  • Swahili: “Damaturu”
  • Swedish: “Damaturu”
  • Tajik: “Даматуру”
  • Tatar: “Даматуру”
  • Turkish: “Damaturu”
  • Tyap: “Damanturu”
  • Ukrainian: “Даматуру”
  • Urdu: “داماتورو”
  • Uzbek: “Damaturu”
  • Yoruba: “Damaturu”

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