Jigawa State
Jigawa State is a state in North West Nigeria. The state is the eighth largest state in Nigeria by population and is characterised predominantly by the Hausas and Fulani background. Most of the population living in Jigawa State are Muslim.
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Jigawa State
- State of Nigeria with 7,500,000 residents
- …lies at an elevation of 375 metres (1,230 feet)
- …is also known as “Land of beauty”
- Description: state in Northern Nigeria
- Neighbors
- Location
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Latitude of center
12.1° or 12° 6′ north
Longitude of center
9.56° or 9° 33′ 36″ east
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Yue Chinese—“Jigawa State” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ጂጋዋ ግዛት”
- Arabic: “جيگاوة”
- Arabic: “ولاية جيغاوة”
- Arabic: “ولاية جيگاوة”
- Arabic: “ولايه جيغاوه”
- Azerbaijani: “Ciqava ştatı”
- Azerbaijani: “Ciqava”
- Bengali: “জিগাবা অঙ্গরাজ্য”
- Bulgarian: “Джигава”
- Catalan: “Jigawa”
- Cebuano: “Jigawa State”
- Central Kanuri: “Jigawa”
- Chinese: “吉加瓦州”
- Croatian: “Jigawa”
- Czech: “Jigawa”
- Danish: “Jigawa”
- Dutch: “Jigawa”
- Esperanto: “Jigava Ŝtato”
- Esperanto: “Jigava”
- Esperanto: “ŝtato Jigava”
- Esperanto: “subŝtato Jigava”
- Estonian: “Jigawa osariik”
- Estonian: “Jigawa”
- Finnish: “Jigawa”
- French: “Etat de Jigawa”
- French: “Jigawa”
- Fulah: “Diiwal Jigawa”
- Galician: “Jigawa”
- Georgian: “ჯიგავის შტატი”
- German: “Jigawa”
- German: “NG-JI”
- Greek: “Τζιγκουάβα”
- Gujarati: “જિગાવા સ્ટેટ”
- Gun: “Ayimatẹn Jigawa Tọn”
- Hausa: “Jigawa tarin Allah”
- Hausa: “Jihar Jigawa”
- Hebrew: “ג’יגבה”
- Hindi: “जिगावा राज्य”
- Igala: “Jigawa State”
- Igbo: “Ȯra Jigawa”
- Indonesian: “Jigawa”
- Italian: “Jigawa”
- Japanese: “ジガワ州”
- Javanese: “Negara Jigawa”
- Kannada: “ಜಿಗಾವಾ ರಾಜ್ಯ”
- Karekare: “Jigawa”
- Kazakh: “Джигава облысы”
- Kirghiz: “Джигава штаты”
- Korean: “지가와주”
- Latvian: “Džigava”
- Latvian: “Džigavas štats”
- Lithuanian: “Džigava”
- Lithuanian: “Džigavos valstija”
- Malay: “Jigawa State”
- Marathi: “जिगावा राज्य”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Jigawa Chiu”
- Nigerian Pidgin: “Jigawa state”
- Nigerian Pidgin: “Jigawa State”
- Nigerian Pidgin: “Land of beauty”
- Northern Frisian: “Jigawa (Bundesstoot)”
- Northern Frisian: “Jigawa”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Jigawa”
- Norwegian: “Jigawa”
- Nupe-Nupe-Tako: “Jigawa State”
- Obolo: “Jigawa”
- Oromo: “Naannoo Jigawa”
- Panjabi: “ਜੀਗਾਵਾ ਰਾਜ”
- Persian: “ایالت جیگاوا”
- Polish: “Jigawa”
- Portuguese: “Estado de Jigawa”
- Portuguese: “Jigawa”
- Portuguese: “Ygaua”
- Portuguese: “Yigaua”
- Pushto: “د جیګاوا ایالت”
- Romanian: “Statul Jigawa”
- Russian: “Джигава”
- Serbian: “Џигава”
- Sindhi: “جيگاوا رياست”
- Sinhala: “ජිගවා ප්රාන්තය”
- Sinhala: “ජිගවා රාජ්ය”
- Somali: “Gobolka Jigawa”
- South Azerbaijani: “جیقاوا ایالتی”
- Spanish: “Estado de Jigawa”
- Spanish: “Jigawa”
- Swahili: “Jigawa State”
- Swahili: “Jigawa”
- Swedish: “Jigawa”
- Tajik: “Вилояти Jigawa”
- Tamil: “ஜிகவா மாநிலம்”
- Tatar: “Jigawa дәүләте”
- Telugu: “జిగావా రాష్ట్రము”
- Telugu: “జిగావా స్టేట్”
- Thai: “จิกาวา”
- Tumbuka: “Jigawa State, Nigeria”
- Turkish: “Jigawa Eyaleti”
- Turkish: “Jigawa”
- Tyap: “A̱byin Ji̱gawa”
- Tyap: “Si̱tet Ji̱gawa”
- Ukrainian: “Джигава”
- Urdu: “جیگاوا اسٹیٹ”
- Urdu: “جیگاوا ریاست”
- Uzbek: “Jigava viloyati”
- Vietnamese: “Bang Jigawa”
- Waray (Philippines): “Jigawa (estado)”
- Waray (Philippines): “Jigawa”
- Western Mari: “Джигава”
- Yoruba: “Ipinle Jigawa”
- Yoruba: “Ìpínlẹ̀ Jigawa”
- Yoruba: “Jigawa State”
- Yue Chinese: “吉加瓦州”
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