Katsina
Katsina is a Local Government Area and the capital city of Katsina State, in northern Nigeria. Located some 260 kilometres east of the city of Sokoto and 135 kilometres northwest of Kano, close to the border with Niger Republic, in 2016, Katsina's population was estimated at 429,000.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: WeirdmaskmanNG, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: WeirdmaskmanNG, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: City with 318,000 residents
- Description: local government area in Nigeria
- Also known as: “Katsina Local Government Area”, “KT”, and “Ta Dikko”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Muhammadu Dikko Stadium.
Muhammadu Dikko Stadium
Stadium
Photo: Uncle Bash007, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Muhammadu Dikko Stadium is an all-seater association football and athletics stadium in Katsina, Katsina State, Nigeria. The stadium is owned and maintained by the Katsina State Government.
Katsina
- Categories: local government area of Nigeria and locality
- Location: Katsina State, North West Nigeria, Nigeria, West Africa, Africa
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Latitude
12.9894° or 12° 59′ 22″ northLongitude
7.6006° or 7° 36′ 2″ eastPopulation
318,000Elevation
496 metres (1,627 feet)Open location code
7F49XJQ2+Q7OpenStreetMap ID
node 501540897OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
8633552Wikidata ID
Q937487
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Yoruba—“Katsina” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Katsina”
- Belarusian: “Каціна”
- Bulgarian: “Катсина”
- Catalan: “Katsina”
- Cebuano: “Katsina (kapital sa estado)”
- Cebuano: “Katsina”
- Chinese: “Katsina”
- Chinese: “卡齐纳”
- Croatian: “Katsina”
- Czech: “Katsina”
- Danish: “Katsina”
- Dutch: “Katsina”
- Esperanto: “Katsina”
- Finnish: “Katsina”
- French: “Katsina”
- Fulah: “Katsina”
- German: “Katsina”
- Hausa: “Ɗakin Kara”
- Hausa: “Jahar Katsina”
- Hausa: “Katsina”
- Hausa: “KT”
- Hausa: “Ta Dikko”
- Hebrew: “קאצינה”
- Hungarian: “Katsina”
- Igbo: “Katsina”
- Igbo: “KT”
- Igbo: “Ta Dikko”
- Interlingue: “Katsina”
- Irish: “Katsina”
- Italian: “Katsina”
- Japanese: “カツィナ”
- Korean: “카치나”
- Latin: “Casena”
- Lithuanian: “Kacina”
- Malagasy: “Katsina”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Katsina”
- Nigerian Pidgin: “Katsina”
- Nigerian Pidgin: “Kt”
- Nigerian Pidgin: “Ta dikko”
- Northern Frisian: “Katsina”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Katsina”
- Norwegian: “Katsina”
- Nupe-Nupe-Tako: “Katsina”
- Persian: “کاتسینا”
- Polish: “Katsina”
- Portuguese: “Catsina”
- Portuguese: “Katsina”
- Romanian: “Katsina”
- Russian: “Кацина”
- South Azerbaijani: “کاتسینا”
- Spanish: “Katsina”
- Swahili: “Katsina”
- Swedish: “Katsina”
- Turkish: “Katsina”
- Ukrainian: “Кацина”
- Ukrainian: “Каціна”
- Welsh: “Katsina”
- Yoruba: “Kàtsínà”
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