Kano State
Kano State is one of the 36 states of Nigeria, located in the northern region of the country. According to the 2006 national census, Kano State was the most populous state in Nigeria.
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Kano State
- Type: state of Nigeria with 15,500,000 residents
- Description: state of Nigeria
- Also known as: “Birnin Dabo”, “Civitas Caninis”, “emirato de Kano”, “Etat de Kano”, “Kano Krallığı”, “NG-KN”, “subŝtato Kano”, “Ta Dabo”, “Tumbin giwa”, “كانو”, “کانو اسٹیٹ”, and “కానో రాష్ట్రం”
- Neighbors: Bauchi State, Jigawa State, Kaduna State, and Katsina State
- Location: North West Nigeria, Nigeria, West Africa, Africa
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Latitude of center
11.5° or 11° 30′ north
Longitude of center
8.5° or 8° 30′ east
Population
15,500,000
Elevation
530 metres (1,739 feet)
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Yue Chinese—“Kano State” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ካኖ ግዛት”
- Arabic: “ولاية كانو”
- Azerbaijani: “Kano ştatı”
- Belarusian: “штат Кано”
- Bengali: “কানো অঙ্গরাজ্য”
- Catalan: “estat de Kano”
- Catalan: “Estat de Kano”
- Cebuano: “Kano State”
- Central Kanuri: “Kano”
- Chinese: “卡諾州”
- Chinese: “卡诺州”
- Croatian: “Kano (država)”
- Croatian: “Kano”
- Czech: “Kano”
- Danish: “Kano”
- Dutch: “Kano”
- Esperanto: “Kano Ŝtato”
- Esperanto: “Kano”
- Esperanto: “ŝtato Kano”
- Estonian: “Kano osariik”
- Finnish: “Kano”
- French: “État de Kano”
- French: “Kano”
- Fulah: “Kano”
- Galician: “Estado de Kano”
- Georgian: “კანოს შტატი”
- German: “Kano”
- Greek: “Πολιτεία του Κάνο”
- Gujarati: “કાનો સ્ટેટ”
- Gun: “Ayimatẹn Kano Tọn”
- Hausa: “jihar Kano”
- Hausa: “Jihar Kano”
- Hausa: “Kano”
- Hebrew: “קנו”
- Hindi: “कानो राज्य”
- Igala: “Kano State”
- Igbo: “Nkeji Ochíchííwu Kano”
- Igbo: “Steeti Kano”
- Indonesian: “Kano”
- Irish: “Stát Kano”
- Italian: “Kano”
- Japanese: “カノ州”
- Javanese: “Negara Kano”
- Kannada: “ಕ್ಯಾನೊ ರಾಜ್ಯ”
- Kanuri: “Cidi kano bǝ”
- Karekare: “Kano”
- Kazakh: “Кано облысы”
- Kirghiz: “Кано штаты”
- Korean: “카노주”
- Latin: “Cano”
- Latvian: “Kano štats”
- Latvian: “Kano”
- Lithuanian: “Kanas”
- Lithuanian: “Kano valstija”
- Malay: “Negeri Kano”
- Marathi: “कानो राज्य”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Kano Chiu”
- Nigerian Pidgin: “Kano state”
- Nigerian Pidgin: “Kano Stet”
- Northern Frisian: “Kano (Bundesstoot)”
- Northern Frisian: “Kano”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kano”
- Norwegian: “Kano”
- Nupe-Nupe-Tako: “Kano State”
- Obolo: “Kano”
- Oromo: “Naannoo Kano”
- Ossetian: “Кано (штат)”
- Ossetian: “Кано”
- Panjabi: “ਕਾਨੋ ਰਾਜ”
- Persian: “ایالت کانو”
- Persian: “کانو”
- Polish: “Kano”
- Portuguese: “Cano”
- Portuguese: “Kano”
- Pushto: “د کانو ایالت”
- Romanian: “Statul Kano”
- Russian: “Кано”
- Serbian: “Кано”
- Sindhi: “ڪانو رياست”
- Sinhala: “කානෝ ප්රාන්තය”
- Sinhala: “කානෝ රාජ්යය”
- Somali: “Gobolka Kano”
- South Azerbaijani: “کانو (ایالت) ایالتی”
- South Azerbaijani: “کانو ایالتی”
- South Azerbaijani: “کانو”
- Spanish: “Estado de Kano”
- Swahili: “Kano”
- Swedish: “Kano”
- Tajik: “Вилояти Kano”
- Tamil: “கனோ மாநிலம்”
- Tatar: “Kano дәүләте”
- Telugu: “కానో స్టేట్”
- Thai: “รัฐคาโน”
- Tumbuka: “Kano State, Nigeria”
- Turkish: “Kano Devleti”
- Tyap: “A̱byin Ka̱na̱u”
- Tyap: “Si̱tet Ka̱na̱u”
- Ukrainian: “Кано”
- Urdu: “کانو ریاست”
- Uzbek: “Kano viloyati”
- Venetian: “Cano”
- Vietnamese: “Bang Kano”
- Waray (Philippines): “Kano (estado)”
- Waray (Philippines): “Kano”
- Western Mari: “Кано”
- Yoruba: “Ipinle Kano”
- Yoruba: “Kano State”
- Yue Chinese: “卡諾州”
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