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Kafanchan

Kafanchan is in , . 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.
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  • Type: Town with 83,100 residents
  • Description: town in Kaduna State, Nigeria
  • Also known as: “Abyin Fantswam”, “Fantswam land”, “Kafachan”, “Kafanchan Junction”, and “Kajanchan”
Photo: Kambai Akau, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Kafanchan

Latitude
9.5852° or 9° 35′ 7″ north
Longitude
8.2926° or 8° 17′ 33″ east
Population
83,100
Elevation
733 metres (2,405 feet)
Open location code
6FXCH7PV+32
Open­Street­Map ID
node 501493308
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2335713
Wiki­data ID
Q6346073
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yoruba—“Kafanchan” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “كافانتشان”
  • Bulgarian: “Кафанчан”
  • Cebuano: “Kafanchan”
  • Chinese: “卡凡钱”
  • Chinese: “卡凡錢”
  • Dutch: “Kafanchan”
  • French: “Kafanchan”
  • German: “Fanzwam”
  • German: “Kafantschan”
  • Greek: “Καφαντσάν”
  • Hausa: “Kafancan”
  • Irish: “Kafanchan”
  • 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”
  • Tyap: “A̱byin Fantswam”
  • Tyap: “Fantswam”
  • Yoruba: “Kafanchan”

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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 “Kafanchan”. Photo: Wallat Dennis, CC BY-SA 4.0.