Nigeria
North East Nigeria
Borno State

Dikwa

Dikwa is a local government area in eastern , , roughly 90 km east of Maiduguri. It has an important Mosque.
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Dikwa

Latitude
12.0348° or 12° 2′ 5″ north
Longitude
13.9187° or 13° 55′ 8″ east
Population
29,000
Elevation
298 metres (978 feet)
Open location code
7F4M2WM9+WF
Open­Street­Map ID
node 501416376
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2344854
Wiki­data ID
Q5276586
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In Other Languages

From Bengali to Spanish—“Dikwa” goes by many names.
  • Bengali: “দিকওয়া”
  • Catalan: “Dikwa”
  • Cebuano: “Dikwa (distrito)”
  • Cebuano: “Dikwa (kapital sa distrito)”
  • Cebuano: “Dikwa”
  • Chinese: “Dikwa”
  • Chinese: “迪克瓦”
  • Dutch: “Dikwa”
  • French: “Dikoa”
  • German: “Dikwa”
  • Greek: “Ντίκβα”
  • Hausa: “Dikwa”
  • Igbo: “Dikwa”
  • Italian: “Dikwa”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Dikwa”
  • Spanish: “Dikwa”

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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 “Dikwa”. Photo: Arrantzaleak, CC BY-SA 3.0.