Funtua
Funtua is a town and local government area in Katsina State, Nigeria. It is one of the premier local governments in Nigeria created after the local government reforms in 1976.
- Type: Town with 75,000 residents
- Description: local government area in Nigeria
- Also known as: “FTA”, “FTA, Huntuwa”, “Funtua Local Government Area”, and “Huntuwa huntun dutse”
Funtua
- Categories: local government area of Nigeria and locality
- Location: Katsina State, North West Nigeria, Nigeria, West Africa, Africa
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Latitude
11.5232° or 11° 31′ 24″ north
Longitude
7.3075° or 7° 18′ 27″ east
Population
75,000
Elevation
699 metres (2,293 feet)
Open location code
7F39G8F4+7X
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Bole to Yoruba—“Funtua” goes by many names.
- Bole: “Funtua”
- Catalan: “Funtua”
- Cebuano: “Funtua (distrito)”
- Cebuano: “Funtua”
- Chinese: “丰图阿”
- Chinese: “豐圖阿”
- Dutch: “Funtua”
- French: “Funtua”
- Hausa: “Funtua”
- Igbo: “Funtua”
- Italian: “Funtua”
- Japanese: “フントゥア”
- Karekare: “Funtua”
- Malagasy: “Funtua”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Funtua”
- Nigerian Pidgin: “Funtua”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Funtua”
- Norwegian: “Funtua”
- Polish: “Funtua”
- Portuguese: “Funtua”
- Romanian: “Funtua”
- Spanish: “Funtua”
- Yoruba: “Funtua”
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