Eket
Eket is a city and one of the 31 local government areas in Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria. The name Eket or Ekid also refers to the indigenous people of the two Local Government Areas of Eket and Esit Eket who are a stock of the Ibibio people of the southern part of Ibibioland and to their dialect which is Ekid.
- Type: Town with 364,000 residents
- Description: Local Government Area and a City in Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria
- Also known as: “Eket (distrito)” and “Idong Nfianwe”
Eket
- Categories: local government area of Nigeria and locality
- Location: Akwa Ibom State, South South Nigeria, Nigeria, West Africa, Africa
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Latitude
4.6421° or 4° 38′ 32″ north
Longitude
7.9264° or 7° 55′ 35″ east
Population
364,000
Elevation
30 metres (98 feet)
UN/LOCODE
NG EKE
Open location code
6FP9JWRG+RH
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yoruba—“Eket” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “إيكيت”
- Cebuano: “Eket (kapital sa distrito)”
- Cebuano: “Eket”
- Dutch: “Eket”
- French: “Eket”
- Fulah: “Eket”
- German: “Eket”
- Hausa: “Eket”
- Igbo: “Eket”
- Italian: “Eket”
- Japanese: “エケト”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Eket”
- Nigerian Pidgin: “Eket”
- Polish: “Eket”
- Portuguese: “Eket”
- Romanian: “Eket”
- Russian: “Экет”
- Spanish: “Eket”
- Ukrainian: “Екет”
- Western Mari: “Экетвлӓ”
- Yoruba: “Eket”
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