Nigeria
North West Nigeria
Zamfara State

Gusau

Gusau is a city in , . It is the administrative capital of Zamfara State.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Gusau Airstrip.

Aerodrome
or Gusau Airfield is an airstrip serving Gusau, and its nearby town, the capital city of the in . Gusau is also a major centre for commercial services in the state mostly farming, the gusau people are most of the Hausa… is situated 4 km east of Gusau.

Gusau

Latitude
12.1658° or 12° 9′ 57″ north
Longitude
6.6606° or 6° 39′ 38″ east
Population
383,000
Elevation
451 metres (1,480 feet)
IATA airport code
QUS
United Nations Location Code
NG QUS
Open location code
7F485M86+87
Open­Street­Map ID
node 501540899
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2339937
Wiki­data ID
Q600405
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Asturian to Yoruba—“Gusau” goes by many names.
  • Asturian: “Gusau”
  • Catalan: “Gusau”
  • Cebuano: “Gusau”
  • Chinese: “Gusau”
  • Chinese: “古紹”
  • Croatian: “Gusau”
  • Dagbani: “Gusau”
  • Danish: “Gusau”
  • Dutch: “Gusau”
  • Esperanto: “Gusau”
  • Estonian: “Gusau”
  • Finnish: “Gusau”
  • French: “Gusau”
  • Fulah: “Gusau”
  • German: “Gusau”
  • Hausa: “Gusau”
  • Igbo: “Gusau”
  • Italian: “Gusau”
  • Japanese: “グサウ”
  • Korean: “구사우”
  • Lithuanian: “Gusau”
  • Malagasy: “Gusau”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Gusau”
  • Northern Frisian: “Gusau”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Gusau”
  • Norwegian: “Gusau”
  • Persian: “گوساو”
  • Polish: “Gusau”
  • Portuguese: “Gusau”
  • Romanian: “Gusau”
  • Russian: “Гусау”
  • Russian: “Гусо”
  • South Azerbaijani: “قوساو”
  • Spanish: “Gusau”
  • Swahili: “Gusau”
  • Swedish: “Gusau”
  • Tyap: “Gusa̱u”
  • Urdu: “گوساو”
  • Yoruba: “Gusau”

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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 “Gusau”. Photo: Gwanki, CC BY-SA 4.0.