Nigeria
South South Nigeria
Akwa Ibom State

Eket

Eket is one of the 31 local government areas in , . The name Eket or Ekid also refers to the indigenous people of the region who are the Ibibio people of the southern part of Ibibioland and to their dialect which is Ekid.
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  • Type: Town with 364,000 residents
  • Description: Local Government Area and a City in Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria
  • Also known as: “Idong Nfianwe”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Eket Airstrip.

Aerodrome
or Eket Airfield is an airport serving Eket, a city in the of . The Eket non-directional beacon is located on the field. Runway length does not include a 145 metres displaced threshold on Runway 19.

Eket

Latitude
4.6421° or 4° 38′ 32″ north
Longitude
7.9264° or 7° 55′ 35″ east
Population
364,000
Elevation
30 metres (98 feet)
United Nations Location Code
NG EKE
Open location code
6FP9JWRG+RH
Open­Street­Map ID
node 501343986
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2343720
Wiki­data ID
Q3321199
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Yoruba—“Eket” goes by many names.
  • Cebuano: “Eket (distrito)”
  • Cebuano: “Eket (kapital sa distrito)”
  • Cebuano: “Eket”
  • Chinese: “Eket”
  • Dutch: “Eket”
  • French: “Eket”
  • Fulah: “Eket”
  • German: “Eket”
  • Hausa: “Eket”
  • Hausa: “Idong Nfianwe”
  • Igbo: “Eket”
  • Igbo: “Idong Nfianwe”
  • Italian: “Eket”
  • Japanese: “エケト”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Eket”
  • Nigerian Pidgin: “Eket”
  • Nigerian Pidgin: “Idong Nfianwe”
  • Polish: “Eket”
  • Portuguese: “Eket”
  • Romanian: “Eket”
  • Russian: “Экет”
  • Spanish: “Eket”
  • Ukrainian: “Екет”
  • Western Mari: “Экетвлӓ”
  • Yoruba: “Eket”

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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 Wikipedia page “Eket”. Photo: MediaMOF, CC BY-SA 4.0.