Nigeria
North Central Nigeria
Benue State

Gboko

Gboko is one of the busiest towns in . Aside from the state capital, Gboko is one of the other important commercial, administrative headquarters of the state. It is also where the highest traditional ruling head, the Tor-Tiv sits.
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Gboko

Latitude
7.3179° or 7° 19′ 4″ north
Longitude
8.9951° or 8° 59′ 42″ east
Population
365,000
Elevation
226 metres (741 feet)
Open location code
6FVC8X9W+52
Open­Street­Map ID
node 501399362
Geo­Names ID
2341374
Wiki­data ID
Q2425179
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In Other Languages

From Catalan to Yoruba—“Gboko” goes by many names.
  • Catalan: “Gboko”
  • Cebuano: “Gboko”
  • Chinese: “Gboko”
  • Chinese: “博科”
  • Chinese: “吉博库”
  • Chinese: “吉博庫”
  • Dutch: “Gboko”
  • Esperanto: “Gboko”
  • Finnish: “Gboko”
  • French: “Gboko”
  • Galician: “Gboko”
  • German: “Gboko”
  • Hausa: “Gboko”
  • Igala: “Gboko”
  • Igbo: “Gboko”
  • Italian: “Gboko”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Gboko”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Gboko”
  • Norwegian: “Gboko”
  • Polish: “Gboko”
  • Portuguese: “Gboko”
  • Romanian: “Gboko”
  • Russian: “Гбоко”
  • Spanish: “Gboko”
  • Swahili: “Gboko”
  • Ukrainian: “Гбоко”
  • Yoruba: “Gboko”

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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 “Gboko”. Photo: Dotun55, CC BY-SA 4.0.