North Central Nigeria
Plateau State
Jos North

Jos

Jos is a city of about 810,000 people. It is the state capital of in . Before the unrest that has shaken the region, the city's cool climate, scenic plateau location and colonial importance made it a popular tourist destination.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Jos Museum.

Museum
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is a in Jos, . The museum was established in 1952 by Bernard Fagg. The museum administers the Museum of Traditional Nigerian Architecture.

Jos

Latitude
9.9175° or 9° 55′ 3″ north
Longitude
8.8979° or 8° 53′ 53″ east
Population
900,000
Elevation
1,186 metres (3,891 feet)
IATA airport code
JOS
United Nations Location Code
NG JOS
Open location code
6FXCWV9X+25
Open­Street­Map ID
node 501540902
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2335953
Wiki­data ID
Q321079
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yoruba—“Jos” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Jos”
  • Albanian: “Jos”
  • Arabic: “جوس”
  • Armenian: “Ջոս”
  • Asturian: “Jos”
  • Azerbaijani: “Cos”
  • Basque: “Jos”
  • Bavarian: “Jos”
  • Belarusian: “Джос”
  • Bengali: “জোস”
  • Catalan: “Jos”
  • Cebuano: “Jos (kapital sa estado)”
  • Cebuano: “Jos”
  • Chinese: “Jos”
  • Chinese: “乔斯”
  • Chinese: “喬斯”
  • Croatian: “Jos”
  • Czech: “Jos”
  • Danish: “Jos”
  • Dutch: “Jos”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جوس”
  • Esperanto: “Jos”
  • Finnish: “Jos”
  • French: “Jos”
  • Fulah: “Jos”
  • Galician: “Jos”
  • German: “Jos”
  • Greek: “Τζος”
  • Gujarati: “જોસ”
  • Hausa: “Jos”
  • Hausa: “plato”
  • Hebrew: “ג’וס”
  • Hindi: “योष”
  • Hungarian: “Jos”
  • Igbo: “Jos”
  • Indonesian: “Jos”
  • Irish: “Jos”
  • Italian: “Jos”
  • Japanese: “ジョス”
  • Kannada: “ಜೋಸ್”
  • Korean: “조스”
  • Latvian: “Džosa”
  • Lithuanian: “Džosas”
  • Macedonian: “Џос”
  • Malay: “Jos”
  • Marathi: “जोस”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Jos”
  • Nigerian Pidgin: “Jos”
  • Northern Frisian: “Jos”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Jos”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Jos”
  • Norwegian: “Jos”
  • Nupe-Nupe-Tako: “Jos”
  • Persian: “جوس”
  • Polish: “Dżos”
  • Polish: “Jos”
  • Portuguese: “Jos”
  • Romanian: “Jos”
  • Russian: “Джос”
  • Russian: “Йос”
  • Scots: “Jos”
  • Serbian: “Džos”
  • Serbian: “Jos”
  • Serbian: “Џос”
  • Silesian: “Jos”
  • Sinhala: “ජෝස්”
  • Slovak: “Jos”
  • Slovenian: “Jos”
  • South Azerbaijani: “جوس”
  • Spanish: “Jos”
  • Swahili: “Jos”
  • Swedish: “Jos, Nigeria”
  • Swedish: “Jos”
  • Tagalog: “Jos”
  • Tamil: “ஜொஸ்”
  • Tatar: “Җос”
  • Telugu: “జోస్”
  • Thai: “จอส”
  • Turkish: “Jos”
  • Tyap: “Ja̱d”
  • Tyap: “Ja̱t”
  • Tyap: “Nja̱d”
  • Tyap: “Nja̱t”
  • Ukrainian: “Джос”
  • Urdu: “جوس، نائجیریا”
  • Venetian: “Jos”
  • Vietnamese: “Jos”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Jos”
  • Yoruba: “Jos”
  • “Jos”

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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 “Jos”. Photo: Jiří Komárek, CC BY-SA 4.0.