Makurdi

Makurdi is a city of 365,000 people, and the capital of of . It sits in a very agricultural area along the Benue River with the fitting moniker of food basket of the nation.
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  • Type: City with 501,000 residents
  • Description: city in Nigeria
  • Also known as: “Makurdu”

Makurdi

Latitude
7.7313° or 7° 43′ 53″ north
Longitude
8.5384° or 8° 32′ 18″ east
Population
501,000
Elevation
92 metres (302 feet)
IATA airport code
MDI
United Nations Location Code
NG MDI
Open location code
6FVCPGJQ+G9
Open­Street­Map ID
node 312045158
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2331140
Wiki­data ID
Q994096
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In Other Languages

From Amharic to Yoruba—“Makurdi” goes by many names.
  • Amharic: “ማኩርዲ”
  • Arabic: “ماكوردي”
  • Asturian: “Makurdi”
  • Azerbaijani: “Makurdi”
  • Belarusian: “Макурдзі”
  • Bengali: “মাকুরদি”
  • Bengali: “মাকুর্দি”
  • Catalan: “Makurdi”
  • Cebuano: “Makurdi”
  • Chinese: “Makurdi”
  • Chinese: “馬庫爾迪”
  • Chinese: “马库尔迪”
  • Croatian: “Makurdi”
  • Czech: “Makurdi”
  • Danish: “Makurdi”
  • Dutch: “Makurdi”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ماكوردى”
  • Esperanto: “Makurdi”
  • Finnish: “Makurdi”
  • French: “Makurdi”
  • Fulah: “Makurɗi”
  • German: “Makurdi”
  • Greek: “Μακούρντι”
  • Gujarati: “મકુર્ડી”
  • Hausa: “Makurdi”
  • Hebrew: “מקורדי”
  • Hindi: “मकुर्डी”
  • Hindi: “मकुर्दी”
  • Igala: “Makurdi”
  • Igbo: “Makurdi”
  • Indonesian: “Makurdi”
  • Italian: “Makurdi”
  • Japanese: “マクルディ”
  • Javanese: “Makurdi”
  • Kannada: “ಮಕುರ್ದಿ”
  • Kazakh: “Макурди”
  • Kirghiz: “Макурди”
  • Korean: “마쿠르디”
  • Kurdish: “Makurdî”
  • Latvian: “Makurdi”
  • Lithuanian: “Makurdis”
  • Malagasy: “Makurdi”
  • Malay: “Makurdi”
  • Marathi: “मकर्डी”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Makurdi”
  • Northern Frisian: “Makurdi”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Makurdi”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Makurdi”
  • Norwegian: “Makurdi”
  • Oromo: “Makurdi”
  • Panjabi: “ਮਕੁਰਦੀ”
  • Persian: “ماکوردی”
  • Polish: “Makurdi”
  • Portuguese: “Makurdi”
  • Pushto: “ماکوردي”
  • Romanian: “Makurdi”
  • Russian: “Макурди”
  • Sinhala: “මකුර්දී”
  • Slovenian: “Makurdi”
  • Somali: “Makurdi”
  • South Azerbaijani: “ماکوردی”
  • Spanish: “Makurdi”
  • Swahili: “Makurdi”
  • Swedish: “Makurdi”
  • Tajik: “Макурди”
  • Tamil: “மகுர்டி”
  • Tatar: “Макурди”
  • Telugu: “మకుర్ది”
  • Thai: “มาคูร์ดี”
  • Turkish: “Makurdi”
  • Ukrainian: “Макурді”
  • Urdu: “ماکوردی”
  • Uzbek: “Makurdi”
  • Vietnamese: “Makurdi”
  • Yoruba: “Makurdi”

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