Lafia
Lafia, or Lafia Garin Madidi, is a town in Nasarawa State in North Central Nigeria. It is prominent as an agricultural center for sesame seeds, soybeans, and is a trading centre for yams, sorghum, millet, and cotton.
- City with about 331,000 residents
- …lies at an elevation of around 210 metres (670 feet)
- …is also known as “Lafia Beriberi”
- Description: Nasarawa State capital and local government area of Nigeria
Lafia
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Latitude
8.496° or 8° 29′ 46″ north
Longitude
8.5148° or 8° 30′ 53″ east
Open location code
6FWCFGW7+CW
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place = city
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Yoruba—“Lafia” goes by many names.
ላፊያAmharic
لافياArabic
ԼաֆիաArmenian
LafiaAsturian
LafiaAzerbaijani
lafiaBasque
লাফিয়াBengali
LafiaCatalan
LafiaCebuano
Lafia (distrito)Cebuano
拉菲亚Chinese
LafiaCroatian
LafiaDagbani
LafiaDanish
Lafia-Bere-BereDanish
LafiaDutch
LafiaFinnish
LafiaIndonesian
LafiaItalian
ラフィアJapanese
LafiaJavanese
ಲಾಫಿಯಾKannada
ЛафияKazakh
ЛафияKirghiz
라피아Korean
LafiaLatvian
LafijaLatvian
LafijaLithuanian
LafiaMalagasy
LafiaMalay
लॅफियाMarathi
LafiaMin Nan Chinese
LafiaNigerian Pidgin
LafiaNorthern Frisian
LafiaNorwegian
LafiaNorwegian Bokmål
LafiaNupe-Nupe-Tako
LafiaSwedish
ЛафияTajik
லாபியாTamil
ЛафияTatar
లాఫియాTelugu
ลาเฟียThai
LafiaTurkish
LafiyaTyap
ЛафіаUkrainian
لافیاUrdu
LafiaUzbek
LafiaVietnamese
LafiaWaray (Philippines)
LafiaYoruba
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