Kano
Kano is the capital of Kano State. 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.
- City with about 4,350,000 residents
- …lies at an elevation of around 490 metres (1,600 feet)
- …has the IATA airport code KAN
- Description: city in Nigeria
- Neighbors: Jigawa State
Places of Interest
Highlights include Sani Abacha Stadium and Great Mosque of Kano.
Sani Abacha Stadium
Stadium
The Sani Abacha Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Kano, Kano State, Nigeria.
Great Mosque of Kano
The Great Mosque of Kano is a general Jumaat mosque…
Gidan Makama Museum Kano
Gidan Makama Museum Kano or Kano Museum is a museum in Kano, Nigeria.
Kano
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Latitude
11.994° or 11° 59′ 38″ north
Longitude
8.522° or 8° 31′ 19″ east
UN/LOCODE
NG KAN
Open location code
7F3CXGVC+HQ
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yoruba—“Kano” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Kano”
- Albanian: “Kano”
- Amharic: “ካኖ”
- Arabic: “كانو”
- Armenian: “Կանո (քաղաք)”
- Armenian: “Կանո”
- Asturian: “Kano”
- Azerbaijani: “Kano”
- Balinese: “Kano”
- Basque: “Kano”
- Belarusian: “Кана”
- Belarusian: “Кано (Нігерыя)”
- Belarusian: “Кано”
- Bengali: “কানো”
- Bole: “Kano”
- Bulgarian: “Кано”
- Catalan: “Kano”
- Cebuano: “Kano (kapital sa estado)”
- Cebuano: “Kano”
- Central Kanuri: “Kano”
- Chechen: “Кано”
- Chinese: “卡諾”
- Chinese: “卡諾市”
- Chinese: “卡诺”
- Chinese: “卡诺市”
- Croatian: “Kano”
- Czech: “Kano”
- Danish: “Kano”
- Dutch: “Kano”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كانو”
- Esperanto: “Kano”
- Estonian: “Kano”
- Finnish: “Kanō”
- French: “Kano”
- Fulah: “Kano”
- Galician: “Kano”
- Georgian: “კანო”
- German: “Kano”
- Greek: “Κάνο”
- Gujarati: “કાનો”
- Hausa: “birnin Kano”
- Hausa: “Kano”
- Hebrew: “קנו (עיר)”
- Hebrew: “קנו”
- Hindi: “कानो, नाइजीरिया”
- Hindi: “कानो”
- Hungarian: “Kano”
- Icelandic: “Kano”
- Igbo: “Kano”
- Indonesian: “Kano, Nigeria”
- Indonesian: “Kano”
- Interlingue: “Kano”
- Irish: “Kano”
- Italian: “Kano”
- Japanese: “カノ”
- Javanese: “Kano”
- Jju: “Ka̱na̱u”
- Kannada: “ಕನೋ”
- Kannada: “ಕ್ಯಾನೊ”
- Karekare: “Kano”
- Kazakh: “Кано”
- Kirghiz: “Кано”
- Korean: “카노”
- Latin: “Canos”
- Latvian: “Kano”
- Lithuanian: “Kanas”
- Lithuanian: “Kano”
- Macedonian: “Кано”
- Malagasy: “Kano”
- Malay: “Kano”
- Marathi: “कानो”
- Nigerian Pidgin: “Kano”
- 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”
- Oromo: “Kano”
- Ossetian: “Кано (сахар)”
- Ossetian: “Кано”
- Panjabi: “ਕਾਨੋ”
- Persian: “کانو، نیجریه”
- Persian: “کانو”
- Polish: “Kano”
- Portuguese: “Cano”
- Portuguese: “Kano”
- Pushto: “کانو”
- Romanian: “Kano, Nigeria”
- Romanian: “Kano”
- Russian: “Кано”
- Scots: “Kano”
- Serbian: “Kano”
- Serbian: “Кано”
- Shona: “Kano, Nigeria”
- Shona: “Kano”
- Sindhi: “ڪانو”
- Sinhala: “කානෝ”
- Slovenian: “Kano”
- Somali: “Kano”
- South Azerbaijani: “کانو، نیجریه”
- Spanish: “Kano”
- Swahili: “Kano”
- Swedish: “Kano”
- Tagalog: “Kano”
- Tajik: “Кано”
- Tamil: “கனோ”
- Tatar: “Кано”
- 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: “Kánò”
Places with the Same Name
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Dirimin Iya and Gidan Sarkin Kano.
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