Kafanchan
Kafanchan is in Kaduna State, Nigeria. It is the junction town where the railtracks connecting the Kaduna-Zaria-Kaura Namoda, Akwanga-Enugu-Port Harcourt, Kuru-Jos-Bauchi-Maiduguri meet at the Nigerian Railway Corporation station built in 1927.
- Town with 83,100 residents
- …lies at an elevation of 733 metres (2,405 feet)
- Description: town in Kaduna State, Nigeria
- Also known as“Abyin Fantswam”“Fantswam land”“Kafachan”“Kafanchan Junction”“Kajanchan”
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Latitude
9.5852° or 9° 35′ 7″ north
Longitude
8.2926° or 8° 17′ 33″ east
Open location code
6FXCH7PV+32
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yoruba—“Kafanchan” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كافانتشان”
- Bulgarian: “Кафанчан”
- Cebuano: “Kafanchan”
- Chinese: “卡凡錢”
- Chinese: “卡凡钱”
- Dutch: “Kafanchan”
- French: “Kafanchan”
- German: “Fanzwam”
- German: “Kafantschan”
- Greek: “Καφαντσάν”
- Hausa: “Kafancan”
- Hindi: “कफनचन”
- Irish: “Kafanchan”
- Jju: “Kwantswam”
- Malagasy: “Kafanchan”
- Nigerian Pidgin: “Fantswam”
- Nigerian Pidgin: “Kafanchan”
- Polish: “Kafanchan”
- Polish: “Kanfanchan”
- Portuguese: “Kafanchan”
- Romanian: “Kafanchan”
- Russian: “Кафанчан”
- Slovenian: “Abyin Fantswam”
- Slovenian: “Kafanchan”
- Swedish: “Kafanchan”
- Turkish: “Kafanchan”
- Tyap: “A̱byin Fantswam”
- Tyap: “Fantswam”
- Yoruba: “Kafanchan”
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