Kaduna
Kaduna is the capital of Kaduna State in North West Nigeria. It is a trade centre and a major transportation hub for the surrounding agricultural areas, with its rail and road junction. Kaduna State is the fourth largest state in Nigeria.- Type: City with 760,000 residents
- Description: state capital of Kaduna State in Nigeria
- Also known as: “crocodile city”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Ahmadu Bello Stadium.
Ahmadu Bello Stadium
Stadium
Kaduna
- Categories: big city and locality
- Location: Unguwar Rimi, Kaduna North, Kaduna State, North West Nigeria, Nigeria, West Africa, Africa
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Latitude
10.5183° or 10° 31′ 6″ north
Longitude
7.436° or 7° 26′ 10″ east
Population
760,000
Elevation
626 metres (2,054 feet)
IATA airport code
KAD
United Nations Location Code
NG KAD
Open location code
7F29GC9P+89
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yoruba—“Kaduna” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Kaduna”
- Amharic: “ካዱና”
- Arabic: “كادونا”
- Armenian: “Կադունա”
- Asturian: “Kaduna”
- Azerbaijani: “Kaduna”
- Belarusian: “Кадуна”
- Bengali: “কাডুনা”
- Bengali: “কাদুনা”
- Bulgarian: “Кадуна”
- Catalan: “Kaduna”
- Cebuano: “Kaduna”
- Chinese: “卡杜納”
- Chinese: “卡杜纳”
- Croatian: “Kaduna”
- Czech: “Kaduna”
- Danish: “Kaduna”
- Dutch: “Kaduna”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كادونا”
- Esperanto: “Kaduna”
- Esperanto: “Kaduno”
- Estonian: “Kaduna”
- Finnish: “Kaduna”
- French: “Kaduna”
- Fulah: “Kaduna”
- Galician: “Kaduna”
- Georgian: “კადუნა”
- German: “Kaduna”
- German: “Stadt der Krokodile”
- Greek: “Καντούνα”
- Gujarati: “કદુના”
- Hausa: “Birnin Kada”
- Hausa: “Jahar Kaduna”
- Hausa: “Kaduna”
- Hebrew: “קאדונה”
- Hebrew: “קדונה”
- Hindi: “कडुना”
- Hindi: “कादुना”
- Hungarian: “Kaduna”
- Igbo: “crocodile city”
- Igbo: “Kaduna”
- Indonesian: “Kaduna”
- Irish: “Kaduna”
- Italian: “Kaduna”
- Japanese: “カドゥナ”
- Javanese: “Kaduna”
- Kannada: “ಕಾಡುನಾ”
- Kanuri: “Kaduna”
- Kanuri: “KD”
- Kazakh: “Кадуна”
- Kirghiz: “Кадуна”
- Korean: “카두나”
- Latvian: “Kaduna”
- Lithuanian: “Kaduna”
- Lithuanian: “Kadūna”
- Malagasy: “Kaduna”
- Malay: “Kaduna”
- Marathi: “कदुना”
- Moksha: “Кадуна”
- Nepali: “कडुना”
- Northern Frisian: “Kaduna”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kaduna”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kaduna”
- Norwegian: “Kaduna”
- Oromo: “Kaduna”
- Panjabi: “ਕਾਦੂਨਾ”
- Persian: “کادونا”
- Polish: “Kaduna”
- Portuguese: “Kaduna”
- Pushto: “کادونا”
- Romanian: “Kaduna”
- Russian: “Кадуна”
- Scots: “Kaduna”
- Silesian: “Kaduna”
- Sinhala: “කාඩුනා”
- Slovenian: “Kaduna”
- Somali: “Kaduna”
- South Azerbaijani: “کادونا”
- Spanish: “Kaduna”
- Swahili: “Kaduna”
- Swedish: “Kaduna”
- Tajik: “Кадуна”
- Tamil: “கடுனா”
- Tatar: “Кадуна”
- Telugu: “కడున”
- Thai: “คาดูนา”
- Turkish: “Kaduna”
- Tyap: “Ka̱duna”
- Tyap: “KeDi”
- Ukrainian: “Кадуна”
- Urdu: “کادونا”
- Uzbek: “Kaduna”
- Venetian: “Kaduna”
- Veps: “Kadun”
- Vietnamese: “Kaduna”
- Waray (Philippines): “Kaduna”
- Welsh: “Kaduna”
- Yoruba: “Kaduna”
- Yoruba: “Kàdúná”
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