Nigeria
North East Nigeria
Borno State

Maiduguri

Maiduguri, also known locally as Yerwa, is a city of 800,000 people in Northeastern Nigeria. It is the capital of the Borno State. Since 2009, it has been the heart of the Boko Haram insurgency.
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  • Type: City with 1,200,000 residents
  • Description: capital and largest city of Borno State in Northeastern Nigeria
  • Also known as: “Maidiguri”, “Maidugari”, and “Yerwa”
Photo: Abdlmaleeq, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Maiduguri

Latitude
11.8395° or 11° 50′ 22″ north
Longitude
13.1536° or 13° 9′ 13″ east
Population
1,200,000
Elevation
325 metres (1,066 feet)
IATA airport code
MIU
United Nations Location Code
NG MIU
Open location code
7F3MR5Q3+RC
Open­Street­Map ID
node 27565111
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2331447
Wiki­data ID
Q221436
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Maiduguri” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Maiduguri”
  • Arabic: “مايدوجوري”
  • Arabic: “مايدوغوري”
  • Arabic: “مايدوگورو”
  • Arabic: “ميدغري”
  • Armenian: “Մայդուգուրի”
  • Asturian: “Maiduguri”
  • Azerbaijani: “Maiduquri”
  • Azerbaijani: “Mayduquri”
  • Bavarian: “Maiduguri”
  • Bengali: “মাইদুগুরি”
  • Bulgarian: “Майдугури”
  • Catalan: “Maiduguri”
  • Cebuano: “Maiduguri (kapital sa estado)”
  • Cebuano: “Maiduguri”
  • Central Kanuri: “Maiduguri”
  • Chechen: “Майдугури”
  • Chinese: “Maiduguri”
  • Chinese: “迈杜古里”
  • Chinese: “邁杜古里”
  • Croatian: “Maiduguri”
  • Croatian: “Yerwa”
  • Czech: “Maiduguri”
  • Danish: “Maiduguri”
  • Dutch: “Maiduguri”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ميدجرى”
  • Esperanto: “Maiduguri”
  • Estonian: “Maiduguri”
  • Finnish: “Maiduguri”
  • French: “Maiduguri”
  • Fulah: “Maiduguri”
  • Galician: “Maiduguri”
  • Georgian: “მაიდუგური”
  • German: “Maiduguri”
  • Greek: “Μαϊντούγκουρι”
  • Gujarati: “મૈડુગુરી”
  • Hausa: “Maiduguri”
  • Hausa: “Yerwa”
  • Hebrew: “מאידוגורי”
  • Hebrew: “מידוגורי”
  • Hebrew: “מיידוגורי”
  • Hindi: “मैदुगुरी”
  • Hindi: “मॉड्यूगॉरी”
  • Hungarian: “Maiduguri”
  • Igbo: “Maiduguri”
  • Igbo: “Yerwa”
  • Indonesian: “Maiduguri”
  • Italian: “Maiduguri”
  • Japanese: “マイドゥグリ”
  • Kannada: “ಮೈದುಗುರಿ”
  • Kanuri: “Maiduguri”
  • Kanuri: “Yerwa”
  • Korean: “마이두구리”
  • Latvian: “Maiduguri”
  • Lithuanian: “Maiduguri”
  • Lithuanian: “Maiduguris”
  • Macedonian: “Маидугури”
  • Macedonian: “Мајдугури”
  • Malagasy: “Maiduguri”
  • Malay: “Maiduguri”
  • Marathi: “मायदुगिरी”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Maiduguri”
  • Nigerian Pidgin: “Maiduguri”
  • Nigerian Pidgin: “Yerwa”
  • Northern Frisian: “Maiduguri”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Maiduguri”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Maiduguri”
  • Norwegian: “Maiduguri”
  • Nupe-Nupe-Tako: “Maiduguri”
  • Persian: “مایدوگوری”
  • Polish: “Maiduguri”
  • Portuguese: “Maiduguri”
  • Romanian: “Maiduguri”
  • Russian: “Майдугури”
  • Scots: “Maiduguri”
  • Sinhala: “මෙයිඩුගුරි”
  • Slovak: “Maiduguri”
  • Slovenian: “Maiduguri”
  • South Azerbaijani: “مایدوقوری”
  • Spanish: “Maiduguri”
  • Swahili: “Maiduguri”
  • Swedish: “Maiduguri”
  • Swedish: “Yerwa”
  • Tagalog: “Maiduguri”
  • Tamil: “மெய்டுகுறி”
  • Telugu: “మైదుగురి”
  • Thai: “ไมดูกูรี”
  • Turkish: “Maiduguri”
  • Tyap: “Ma̱iduguri”
  • Tyap: “Nduguli”
  • Ukrainian: “Майдугурі”
  • Urdu: “مایدوگوری”
  • Veps: “Maiduguri”
  • Vietnamese: “Maiduguri”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Maiduguri”
  • Yoruba: “Maiduguri”
  • Yoruba: “Yerwa”
  • Yue Chinese: “邁杜古里”
  • “Maiduguri”

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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 “Maiduguri”. Photo: Ifenomenal, CC BY-SA 4.0.