Kogi State
Kogi State is a state in North Central Nigeria. The state is nicknamed the "Confluence State" due the fact that the confluence of the River Niger and the River Benue occurs next to its capital, Lokoja.
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Kogi State
- Type: State with 4,470,000 residents
- Description: state in Nigeria
- Also known as: “État de la confluence”, “Geregu Kogi Stat”, “KOGI”, “Kogi STATE”, “Kwogi”, “كوجي”, and “کوگی اسٹیٹ”
- Neighbors: Anambra State, Benue State, Edo State, Ekiti State, Enugu State, Federal Capital Territory, Kwara State, Nasarawa State, Niger State, and Ondo State
- Categories: state of Nigeria and locality
- Location: North Central Nigeria, Nigeria, West Africa, Africa
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Latitude of center
7.795° or 7° 47′ 42″ north
Longitude of center
6.6869° or 6° 41′ 13″ east
Population
4,470,000
Elevation
35 metres (115 feet)
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Yue Chinese—“Kogi State” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ኮጊ ግዛት”
- Arabic: “ولاية كوجي”
- Azerbaijani: “Kogi ştatı”
- Bengali: “কোজি অঙ্গরাজ্য”
- Bulgarian: “Коги”
- Catalan: “Estat de Kogi”
- Cebuano: “Kogi State”
- Central Kanuri: “Kogi”
- Chinese: “科吉州”
- Croatian: “Kogi”
- Czech: “Kogi”
- Danish: “Kogi”
- Dutch: “Kogi”
- Esperanto: “Kogi Ŝtato”
- Esperanto: “Kogi”
- Estonian: “Kogi osariik”
- Estonian: “Kogi”
- Finnish: “Kogi”
- French: “État de Kogi”
- French: “Kogi”
- Fulah: “Diiwal Kogi”
- Galician: “Estado de Kogi”
- Georgian: “კოგის შტატი”
- German: “Kogi”
- Greek: “Κόγκι”
- Gujarati: “કોગી સ્ટેટ”
- Gun: “Ayimatẹn Kogi Tọn”
- Hausa: “Jahar Kogi”
- Hausa: “Jihar Kogi”
- Hebrew: “מדינת קוגי”
- Hindi: “कोगी राज्य”
- Igala: “Kogi State”
- Igbo: “Ȯra Kogi”
- Indonesian: “Kogi”
- Italian: “Kogi”
- Japanese: “コギ州”
- Javanese: “Kogi State”
- Kannada: “ಕೋಗಿ ರಾಜ್ಯ”
- Karekare: “Kogi”
- Kazakh: “Коги штаты”
- Kirghiz: “Коги штаты”
- Korean: “코기주”
- Latvian: “Kogi štats”
- Latvian: “Kogi”
- Lithuanian: “Kogio valstija”
- Lithuanian: “Kogis”
- Malay: “Kogi State”
- Marathi: “कोगी राज्य”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Kogi Chiu”
- Nigerian Pidgin: “Kogi State”
- Nigerian Pidgin: “Kogi Stet”
- Northern Frisian: “Kogi (Bundesstoot)”
- Northern Frisian: “Kogi”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kogi”
- Norwegian: “Kogi”
- Nupe-Nupe-Tako: “Kogi, Kogi State”
- Obolo: “Kogi”
- Oromo: “Kogi State”
- Panjabi: “ਕੋਗੀ ਸਟੇਟ”
- Persian: “ایالت کوگی”
- Polish: “Kogi”
- Portuguese: “Kogi”
- Pushto: “کوګي ایالت”
- Romanian: “Statul Kogi”
- Russian: “Коги”
- Serbian: “Коги”
- Sindhi: “ڪوگي رياست”
- Sinhala: “කොගී ප්රාන්තය”
- Sinhala: “කොගී රාජ්ය”
- Slovenian: “Kogi”
- Somali: “Kogi State”
- South Azerbaijani: “کوقی ایالتی”
- Spanish: “Estado de Kogi”
- Spanish: “Kogi”
- Swahili: “Kogi”
- Swedish: “Kogi”
- Tajik: “Вилояти Коги”
- Tamil: “கோகி மாநிலம்”
- Tatar: “Kogi Ştaty”
- Telugu: “కోగి రాష్ట్రం”
- Thai: “รัฐโคกี”
- Tumbuka: “Kogi State, Nigeria”
- Turkish: “Kogi Eyaleti”
- Turkish: “Kogi”
- Tyap: “A̱byin Kogi”
- Tyap: “Si̱tet Kogi”
- Ukrainian: “Когі”
- Urdu: “کوگی ریاست”
- Uzbek: “Kogi shtati”
- Vietnamese: “Bang Kogi”
- Waray (Philippines): “Kogi (estado)”
- Waray (Philippines): “Kogi”
- Western Mari: “Коги”
- Western Panjabi: “کوگی ریاست”
- Yoruba: “Ìpínlẹ̀ Kogí”
- Yoruba: “Kogi State”
- Yue Chinese: “科吉州”
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