Nigeria
North Central Nigeria
Nasarawa State

Lafia

Lafia, or Lafia Garin Madidi, is a town in in . It is prominent as an agricultural center for sesame seeds, soybeans, and is a trading centre for yams, sorghum, millet, and cotton.
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  • Type: City with 509,000 residents
  • Description: Nasarawa State capital and local government area of Nigeria
  • Also known as: “Lafia Beriberi”
Photo: Thechronicler21, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Lafia

Latitude
8.496° or 8° 29′ 46″ north
Longitude
8.5148° or 8° 30′ 53″ east
Population
509,000
Elevation
179 metres (587 feet)
Open location code
6FWCFGW7+CW
Open­Street­Map ID
node 317967219
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2332515
Wiki­data ID
Q1023721
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yoruba—“Lafia” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “لافيا”
  • Armenian: “Լաֆիա”
  • Asturian: “Lafia”
  • Basque: “lafia”
  • Bengali: “লাফিয়া”
  • Catalan: “Lafia”
  • Cebuano: “Lafia (distrito)”
  • Cebuano: “Lafia”
  • Chinese: “Lafia”
  • Chinese: “拉菲亚”
  • Croatian: “Lafia”
  • Dagbani: “Lafia”
  • Danish: “Lafia-Bere-Bere”
  • Danish: “Lafia”
  • Dutch: “Lafia”
  • Finnish: “Lafia”
  • French: “Lafia”
  • German: “Lafia-Bere-Bere”
  • German: “Lafia”
  • Greek: “Λάφια”
  • Gujarati: “લેફિયા”
  • Hausa: “Lafia”
  • Hindi: “लाफिया”
  • Igala: “Lafia”
  • Igbo: “Lafia”
  • Indonesian: “Lafia”
  • Italian: “Lafia”
  • Japanese: “ラフィア”
  • Kannada: “ಲಾಫಿಯಾ”
  • Korean: “라피아”
  • Latvian: “Lafia”
  • Latvian: “Lafija”
  • Lithuanian: “Lafija”
  • Malagasy: “Lafia”
  • Malay: “Lafia”
  • Marathi: “लॅफिया”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Lafia”
  • Nigerian Pidgin: “Lafia”
  • Northern Frisian: “Lafia”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Lafia”
  • Norwegian: “Lafia”
  • Nupe-Nupe-Tako: “Lafia”
  • Persian: “لافیا”
  • Polish: “Lafia”
  • Portuguese: “Lafia”
  • Romanian: “Lafia”
  • Russian: “Лафиа”
  • Sinhala: “ලෆියා”
  • Slovenian: “Lafia”
  • South Azerbaijani: “لافیا”
  • Spanish: “Lafia”
  • Swedish: “Lafia”
  • Tamil: “லாபியா”
  • Tamil: “லேபியா”
  • Telugu: “లఫియా”
  • Telugu: “లాఫియా”
  • Thai: “ลาเฟีย”
  • Turkish: “lafia”
  • Turkish: “Lafia”
  • Tyap: “Lafiya”
  • Ukrainian: “Лафіа”
  • Urdu: “لافیا”
  • Vietnamese: “Lafia”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Lafia”
  • Yoruba: “Lafia”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Lafia”. Photo: Enakenonester, CC BY-SA 4.0.