Gwagwalada
Gwagwalada is a city and local government area in the Federal Capital Territory in Nigeria. Gwagwalada serves as the traditional headquarters of the Bassa people in FCT, with their traditional leader known as the Agụma, currently held by HRH Alhaji Muhammadu Magaji.
- Type: Town with 159,000 residents
- Description: local government area in the Federal Capital Territory in Nigeria
- Also known as: “Gwagwaldda”
Gwagwalada
- Categories: local government area of Nigeria and locality
- Location: Federal Capital Territory, North Central Nigeria, Nigeria, West Africa, Africa
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Latitude
8.936° or 8° 56′ 10″ north
Longitude
7.0859° or 7° 5′ 9″ east
Population
159,000
Elevation
186 metres (610 feet)
Open location code
6FW9W3PP+C9
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Yoruba—“Gwagwalada” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Գվագվալադա”
- Basque: “Gwagwalada”
- Bole: “Gwagwalada”
- Catalan: “Gwagwalada”
- Cebuano: “Gwagwalada”
- Chinese: “瓜瓜拉達”
- Dutch: “Gwagwalada”
- French: “Gwagwalada”
- Fulah: “Gwagwalada”
- Hausa: “Gwagwalada”
- Igbo: “Gwagwalada”
- Nupe-Nupe-Tako: “Gwagwalada”
- Portuguese: “Gwagwalada”
- Spanish: “Gwagwalada”
- Yoruba: “Agbègbè Ìjọba Ìbílẹ̀ Gwagwalada”
- Yoruba: “Gwagwalada”
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