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South South Nigeria
Akwa Ibom State

Ikot Ekpene

Ikot Ekpene, also known as The Raffia City, is a historic town in the south-southern state of . It is the political and cultural capital of the Annang ethnic group in Nigeria.
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  • Type: City with 143,000 residents
  • Description: local government area in Akwa Ibom State of Nigeria
  • Also known as: “Ikot Ekpene Local Government Area” and “Raffia City”

Ikot Ekpene

Latitude
5.182° or 5° 10′ 55″ north
Longitude
7.7132° or 7° 42′ 48″ east
Population
143,000
Elevation
76 metres (249 feet)
Open location code
6FQ95PJ7+Q7
Open­Street­Map ID
node 501516317
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
8638449
Wiki­data ID
Q680926
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yoruba—“Ikot Ekpene” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “ايكوت إكبين”
  • Armenian: “Իկոտ-Էքփենե”
  • Asturian: “Ikot Ekpene”
  • Bengali: “ঈকট একপেনে”
  • Cebuano: “Ikot Ekpene (distrito)”
  • Cebuano: “Ikot Ekpene”
  • Chinese: “Ikot Ekpene”
  • Chinese: “伊科特埃佩內”
  • Danish: “Ikot Ekpene”
  • Dutch: “Ikot Ekpene”
  • Finnish: “Ikot Ekpene”
  • French: “Ikot Ekpene”
  • Fulah: “Ikot Ekpene”
  • German: “Ikot Ekpene”
  • Greek: “Ίκοτ Εκπένε”
  • Gujarati: “ઇકોટ એક્પીન”
  • Hausa: “Ikot Ekpene”
  • Hindi: “इकोट एकपीन”
  • Igbo: “Ikot Ekpene”
  • Indonesian: “Ikot Ekpene”
  • Italian: “Ikot Ekpene”
  • Japanese: “イコット・エックペン”
  • Kannada: “ಇಕಾಟ್ ಏಕ್ಪೆನ್”
  • Korean: “이콧 이케페네”
  • Latvian: “Ikot-Ekpene”
  • Lithuanian: “Ikot Ekpenė”
  • Malagasy: “Ikot Ekpene”
  • Malay: “Ikot Ekpene”
  • Marathi: “इकोट एकपीन”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Ikot Ekpene”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Ikot Ekpene”
  • Norwegian: “Ikot Ekpene”
  • Polish: “Ikot Ekpene”
  • Portuguese: “Ikot Ekpene”
  • Romanian: “Ikot Ekpene”
  • Russian: “Икот-Экпене”
  • Sinhala: “අයිකොට් ,එක්පෙනේ”
  • Sinhala: “අයිකොට්”
  • Slovenian: “Ikot Ekpene”
  • Spanish: “Ikot Ekpene”
  • Swahili: “Ikot Ekpene”
  • Swedish: “Ikot Ekpene”
  • Tamil: “இகோட் எக்பேனி”
  • Telugu: “ఇకోట్ ఏక్పిన్”
  • Turkish: “Ikot Ekpene”
  • Ukrainian: “Ікот-Екпене”
  • Urdu: “یکوت یکپینی”
  • Vietnamese: “Ikot Ekpene”
  • Yoruba: “Agbegbe Ijoba Ibile Ikot Ekpene”
  • Yoruba: “Agbègbè Ìjọba Ìbílẹ̀ Ikot Ekpene”
  • Yoruba: “Agbegbe Ijoba Ibile Ikot-Ekpene”
  • Yoruba: “Ikot Ekpene”

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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 Wikipedia page “Ikot Ekpene”. Photo: Gogeafrica, CC BY-SA 4.0.