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Enugu

Enugu is the capital of Enugu State in Southeast Nigeria. Enugu is one of the filming locations for directors of the Nigerian movie industry, dubbed "Nollywood".
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  • Type: City with 723,000 residents
  • Description: city in Nigeria
  • Also known as: “Enuga”
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Nnamdi Azikiwe Stadium.

Stadium
nicknamed The Cathedral is a multi-purpose stadium in Enugu, . It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of Enugu Rangers.

Enugu

Latitude
6.4497° or 6° 26′ 59″ north
Longitude
7.5137° or 7° 30′ 49″ east
Population
723,000
Elevation
192 metres (630 feet)
IATA airport code
ENU
United Nations Location Code
NG ENU
Open location code
6FR9CGX7+VF
Open­Street­Map ID
node 27565107
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2343279
Wiki­data ID
Q465022
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yoruba—“Enugu” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “إنوغو”
  • Arabic: “إينوجو”
  • Armenian: “Էնուգու”
  • Asturian: “Enugu”
  • Basque: “Enugu”
  • Bavarian: “Enugu”
  • Belarusian: “Энугу”
  • Bengali: “ইনুগু”
  • Breton: “Enugu”
  • Bulgarian: “Енугу”
  • Catalan: “Enugu”
  • Chinese: “埃努古”
  • Croatian: “Enugu”
  • Czech: “Enugu”
  • Danish: “Enugu”
  • Dutch: “Enugu”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “انوجو”
  • Esperanto: “Enugu”
  • Estonian: “Enugu”
  • Finnish: “Enugu”
  • French: “Enugu”
  • Fulah: “Enugu”
  • Galician: “Enugu”
  • German: “Enugu”
  • Greek: “Ενούγκου”
  • Gujarati: “એનુગુ”
  • Hausa: “Enugu”
  • Hausa: “jahar Enugu”
  • Hebrew: “אנוגו”
  • Hindi: “एनुगु”
  • Hungarian: “Enugu”
  • Igbo: “Enúgwu”
  • Igbo: “Enụgwụ”
  • Indonesian: “Enugu”
  • Irish: “Enugu”
  • Italian: “Enugu”
  • Italian: “Enugwu”
  • Japanese: “エヌグ”
  • Kannada: “ಏನುಗು”
  • Korean: “에누구”
  • Latin: “Enugu”
  • Latvian: “Enugu”
  • Lingala: “Enugu”
  • Lithuanian: “Enugu”
  • Lombard: “Enúgwu”
  • Malay: “Enugu”
  • Marathi: “एनुगु”
  • Mossi: “Enugu”
  • Nigerian Pidgin: “Enugu”
  • Northern Frisian: “Enugu”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Enugu”
  • Norwegian: “Enugu”
  • Persian: “انوگو”
  • Polish: “Enugu”
  • Portuguese: “Enugu”
  • Romanian: “Enugu”
  • Russian: “Энугу”
  • Silesian: “Enugu (mjasto)”
  • Silesian: “Enugu”
  • Sinhala: “එනුගු”
  • Slovak: “Enugu”
  • Slovenian: “Enugu”
  • South Azerbaijani: “انوقو”
  • Spanish: “Enugu”
  • Swahili: “Enugu”
  • Swedish: “Enugu”
  • Tamil: “எனுகு”
  • Telugu: “ఏన్గు”
  • Thai: “อินูกู”
  • Turkish: “Enugu”
  • Ukrainian: “Енугу”
  • Urdu: “انوگو”
  • Venetian: “Enugu”
  • Vietnamese: “Enugu”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Enugu”
  • Welsh: “Enugu”
  • Western Mari: “Энугу”
  • Yoruba: “Ẹnúgu”

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