Kano State
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Kano

Kano is the capital of . It has a population of around 3.6 million, giving it a busy atmosphere. It is an ancient trading city inhabited for well over a thousand years.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Sani Abacha Stadium and Great Mosque of Kano.

Stadium
The is a multi-purpose stadium in Kano, , . It is mostly used for football matches and athletics. The stadium is the home of Nigeria Professional Football League side Kano Pillars F.C.

Mosque
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The is a general Jumaat in Kano, the capital city of and the second most populous city in . The mosque is situated at around the Heart of the city around the Mandawari area of the state.

Museum
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or Kano Museum is a in Kano, . This building served as temporary palace of Sarakunan Hausa of Kano before the current palace Gidan Rumfa was constructed in the 15th century The museum has a significant collections of arts, crafts and items of historic interest related to the Kano area.

Kano

Latitude
11.994° or 11° 59′ 38″ north
Longitude
8.522° or 8° 31′ 19″ east
Population
2,400,000
Elevation
484 metres (1,588 feet)
IATA airport code
KAN
United Nations Location Code
NG KAN
Open location code
7F3CXGVC+HQ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 501540880
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2335204
Wiki­data ID
Q182984
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yoruba—“Kano” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Kano”
  • Albanian: “Kano”
  • Arabic: “كانو”
  • Armenian: “Կանո (քաղաք)”
  • Armenian: “Կանո”
  • Asturian: “Kano”
  • Basque: “Kano”
  • Belarusian: “Кана”
  • Belarusian: “Кано (Нігерыя)”
  • Belarusian: “Кано”
  • Bengali: “কানো”
  • Bulgarian: “Кано”
  • Catalan: “Kano”
  • Cebuano: “Kano (kapital sa estado)”
  • Cebuano: “Kano”
  • Central Kanuri: “Kano”
  • Chechen: “Кано”
  • Chinese: “卡诺”
  • Chinese: “卡诺市”
  • Chinese: “卡諾”
  • Chinese: “卡諾市”
  • Croatian: “Kano”
  • Czech: “Kano”
  • Danish: “Kano”
  • Dutch: “Kano”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كانو”
  • Esperanto: “Kano”
  • Estonian: “Kano”
  • Finnish: “Kano”
  • Finnish: “Kanō”
  • French: “Kano”
  • Fulah: “Kano”
  • Galician: “Kano”
  • Georgian: “კანო”
  • German: “Kano”
  • Greek: “Κάνο”
  • Gujarati: “કાનો”
  • Hausa: “jahar Kano”
  • Hausa: “Jalla Babba Hausa”
  • Hausa: “Kano ta Dabo tunbin Giwa”
  • Hausa: “Kano”
  • Hausa: “Koda me kazo anfika”
  • Hebrew: “קנו (עיר)”
  • Hebrew: “קנו”
  • Hindi: “कऩो”
  • Hindi: “कानो, नाइजीरिया”
  • Hindi: “कानो”
  • Hindi: “कानौ”
  • Hungarian: “Kano”
  • Icelandic: “Kano”
  • Igbo: “Kano”
  • Indonesian: “Kano, Nigeria”
  • Indonesian: “Kano”
  • Interlingue: “Kano”
  • Irish: “Kano”
  • Italian: “Kano”
  • Japanese: “カノ”
  • Kannada: “ಕನೋ”
  • Kannada: “ಕ್ಯಾನೊ”
  • Kirghiz: “Кано”
  • Korean: “카노”
  • Latin: “Canos”
  • Latvian: “Kano”
  • Lithuanian: “Kanas”
  • Lithuanian: “Kano”
  • Macedonian: “Кано”
  • Malagasy: “Kano”
  • Malay: “Kano”
  • Marathi: “कानो”
  • Northern Frisian: “Kano”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kano”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Byen Kano”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kano i Nigeria”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kano”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kanoriket”
  • Norwegian: “Kano”
  • Nupe-Nupe-Tako: “Kano”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Kano”
  • Ossetian: “Кано (сахар)”
  • Ossetian: “Кано”
  • Panjabi: “ਕਾਨੋ”
  • Persian: “کانو، نیجریه”
  • Polish: “Kano”
  • Portuguese: “Cano”
  • Portuguese: “Kano”
  • Romanian: “Kano, Nigeria”
  • Romanian: “Kano”
  • Russian: “Кано”
  • Scots: “Kano”
  • Serbian: “Kano”
  • Serbian: “Кано”
  • Shona: “Kano, Nigeria”
  • Shona: “Kano”
  • Sindhi: “ڪانو”
  • Sinhala: “කානෝ”
  • Slovenian: “Kano”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کانو، نیجریه”
  • Spanish: “Kano”
  • Swahili: “Kano”
  • Swedish: “Kano”
  • Tagalog: “Kano”
  • Tajik: “Кано”
  • Tamil: “கனோ”
  • Telugu: “కానో”
  • Thai: “คาโน”
  • Turkish: “Kano, Nijerya”
  • Turkish: “Kano”
  • Tyap: “Ka̱na̱u”
  • Tyap: “Kano”
  • Ukrainian: “Кано”
  • Urdu: “کانو”
  • Uzbek: “Kano”
  • Venetian: “Kano”
  • Veps: “Kano”
  • Vietnamese: “Kano”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Kano”
  • Welsh: “Kano”
  • Wu Chinese: “卡诺”
  • Yoruba: “Kano”
  • Yoruba: “Kánò”
  • “Kano”

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