Kaduna State
Kaduna North
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Kaduna

Kaduna is the capital of in . 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.
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  • 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.

Stadium
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
The , simply referred to as ABS is a multi-purpose in Kaduna City, , . It was designed in 1965 by the English architects Jane Drew and Maxwell Fry.

Kaduna

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
node 27565091
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2335727
Wiki­data ID
Q208318
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yoruba—“Kaduna” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Kaduna”
  • Arabic: “كادونا”
  • Armenian: “Կադունա”
  • Asturian: “Kaduna”
  • Belarusian: “Кадуна”
  • 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”
  • Greek: “Καντούνα”
  • Gujarati: “કદુના”
  • Hausa: “Jahar Kaduna”
  • Hausa: “Kaduna”
  • Hebrew: “קאדונה”
  • Hebrew: “קדונה”
  • Hindi: “कडुना”
  • Hindi: “कड्यूना”
  • Hungarian: “Kaduna”
  • Igbo: “crocodile city”
  • Igbo: “Kaduna”
  • Indonesian: “Kaduna”
  • Irish: “Kaduna”
  • Italian: “Kaduna”
  • Japanese: “カドゥナ”
  • Kannada: “ಕಾಡುನಾ”
  • Kanuri: “Kaduna”
  • Kanuri: “KD”
  • 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”
  • Panjabi: “ਕਾਦੂਨਾ”
  • Persian: “کادونا”
  • Polish: “Kaduna”
  • Portuguese: “Kaduna”
  • Romanian: “Kaduna”
  • Russian: “Кадуна”
  • Scots: “Kaduna”
  • Silesian: “Kaduna”
  • Sinhala: “කාඩුනා”
  • Slovenian: “Kaduna”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کادونا”
  • Spanish: “Kaduna”
  • Swahili: “Kaduna”
  • Swedish: “Kaduna”
  • Tamil: “கடுனா”
  • Telugu: “కడున”
  • Thai: “คาดูนา”
  • Turkish: “Kaduna”
  • Tyap: “Ka̱duna”
  • Tyap: “KeDi”
  • Ukrainian: “Кадуна”
  • Urdu: “کادونا”
  • Venetian: “Kaduna”
  • Veps: “Kadun”
  • Vietnamese: “Kaduna”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Kaduna”
  • Welsh: “Kaduna”
  • Yoruba: “Kaduna”
  • Yoruba: “Kàdúná”

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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 “Kaduna”. Photo: Anasskoko, CC BY-SA 4.0.