Minna
Minna is a city in the North Central of Nigeria. It is the capital city of Niger State, one of Nigeria's 36 federal states. Its original major ethnic groups are the Gbagyi, Nupe and the Hausa peoples.
Minna
- Type: City with 304,000 residents
- Description: capital of Niger State in Nigeria
- Category: locality
- Location: Chanchaga, Niger State, North Central Nigeria, Nigeria, West Africa, Africa
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Latitude
9.6187° or 9° 37′ 7″ north
Longitude
6.5476° or 6° 32′ 51″ east
Population
304,000
Elevation
243 metres (797 feet)
IATA airport code
MXJ
United Nations Location Code
NG MXJ
Open location code
6FX8JG9X+F2
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Yoruba—“Minna” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ሚና”
- Arabic: “منا”
- Arabic: “مينا”
- Armenian: “Միննա”
- Asturian: “Minna”
- Azerbaijani: “Minna”
- Bengali: “মিন্না”
- Bulgarian: “Мина”
- Catalan: “Minna”
- Cebuano: “Minna”
- Chinese: “明納”
- Chinese: “明纳”
- Croatian: “Minna”
- Danish: “Minna”
- Dutch: “Minna”
- Egyptian Arabic: “مينا”
- Esperanto: “Minna”
- Faroese: “Minna”
- Finnish: “Minna”
- French: “Minna”
- Fulah: “Minna”
- Galician: “Minna”
- German: “Minna”
- Greek: “Μίννα”
- Gujarati: “મીના”
- Gun: “Minna”
- Hausa: “Minna”
- Hebrew: “מינה”
- Hindi: “मिना”
- Hindi: “मिन्ना”
- Icelandic: “Minna”
- Igbo: “Minna”
- Indonesian: “Minna”
- Italian: “Minna”
- Japanese: “ミンナ”
- Javanese: “Minna”
- Kalaallisut: “Minna”
- Kannada: “ಮಿನ್ನಾ”
- Kazakh: “Минна”
- Kirghiz: “Минна”
- Korean: “민나”
- Latvian: “Mina”
- Lithuanian: “Mina”
- Malagasy: “Minna”
- Malay: “Minna”
- Marathi: “मिना”
- Northern Frisian: “Minna (Nigeeria)”
- Northern Frisian: “Minna”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Minna”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Minna”
- Norwegian: “Minna”
- Oromo: “Minna”
- Panjabi: “ਮਿੰਨਾ”
- Persian: “منا”
- Persian: “مینا”
- Polish: “Minna”
- Portuguese: “Minna”
- Pushto: “منا”
- Romanian: “Minna”
- Russian: “Минна”
- Sinhala: “මින්නා”
- Slovenian: “Kontagora”
- Somali: “Minna”
- South Azerbaijani: “منا (نیجر)”
- South Azerbaijani: “منا”
- Spanish: “Minna”
- Swahili: “Minna”
- Swedish: “Minna”
- Tajik: “Минна”
- Tamil: “மினா”
- Tatar: “Минна”
- Telugu: “మినా”
- Thai: “มินนา”
- Turkish: “Minna”
- Tyap: “Mina”
- Ukrainian: “Мінна”
- Urdu: “مینا، نائجیریا”
- Uzbek: “Minna”
- Vietnamese: “Minna”
- Yoruba: “Minna”
- “Minna”
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