Lokoja
Lokoja is the capital city of Kogi State, a state in North Central part of Nigeria. It is sited at the confluence of the rivers Niger and Benue.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Photo: MOAdanu, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Town with 90,000 residents
- Description: local government area of Nigeria
- Also known as: “Lairdstown” and “Zokoja”
Lokoja
- Categories: local government area of Nigeria, city, and locality
- Location: Kogi State, North Central Nigeria, Nigeria, West Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
7.8024° or 7° 48′ 9″ northLongitude
6.743° or 6° 44′ 35″ eastPopulation
90,000Elevation
53 metres (174 feet)Open location code
6FV8RP2V+W6OpenStreetMap ID
node 501514422OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
2331939Wikidata ID
Q994085
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Yoruba—“Lokoja” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Lokoja”
- Catalan: “Lokoja”
- Cebuano: “Lokoja (distrito)”
- Cebuano: “Lokoja (kapital sa estado)”
- Cebuano: “Lokoja”
- Chinese: “Lokoja”
- Chinese: “洛科賈”
- Chinese: “洛科贾”
- Croatian: “Lokoja”
- Danish: “Lokoja”
- Dutch: “Lokoja”
- Esperanto: “Lokoja”
- Estonian: “Lokoja”
- Finnish: “Lokoja”
- French: “Lokoja”
- German: “Lokodscha”
- German: “Lokoja”
- Hausa: “lokaja”
- Hausa: “Lokoja”
- Hebrew: “לוקוג’ה”
- Igala: “Lokoja”
- Igbo: “Lokoja”
- Italian: “Lokoja”
- Japanese: “ロコジャ”
- Korean: “로코자”
- Malagasy: “Lokoja”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Lokoja”
- Nigerian Pidgin: “Lokoja”
- Northern Frisian: “Lokoja”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Lokoja”
- Nupe-Nupe-Tako: “Lokoja”
- Persian: “لوکوجا”
- Polish: “Lokoja”
- Portuguese: “Locoja”
- Portuguese: “Lokoja”
- Romanian: “Lokoja”
- Russian: “Локоджа”
- Slovenian: “Lokoja”
- South Azerbaijani: “لوکوجا”
- Spanish: “Lokoja”
- Swedish: “Lokoja”
- Tyap: “La̱kwoja”
- Ukrainian: “Локоджа”
- Urdu: “لوکوجا”
- Western Frisian: “Lokoja”
- Western Panjabi: “لوکوجا”
- Yoruba: “Lokoja”
- Yoruba: “Lọ́kọ́ja”
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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 “Lokoja”. Photo: MOAdanu, CC BY-SA 4.0.