Nigeria
North Central Nigeria
Kwara State

Offa

Offa is a city in the Kwara of . It was founded in 1395 by Olalomi olofa-gan gan. There are about 120,100 inhabitants. The vegetation in Offa is savanna vegetation and the town is noted for its weaving and dyeing trade, farming and also rearing of livestock.
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  • Type: City with 90,000 residents
  • Description: town in Kwara State, Nigeria
  • Also known as: “Ibolo kingdom”, “Ijagbo Offa”, “Iyeru okin”, “Ofa”, “Ofa-ile”, “Offa, Nigeria”, and “Olalomi”

Offa

Latitude
8.156° or 8° 9′ 22″ north
Longitude
4.7227° or 4° 43′ 22″ east
Population
90,000
Elevation
419 metres (1,375 feet)
Open location code
6FW65P4F+C3
Open­Street­Map ID
node 501520228
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2327879
Wiki­data ID
Q2015456
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yoruba—“Offa” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “إيجاغبو أفا”
  • Arabic: “إيجاغبو أوفا”
  • Asturian: “Offa town”
  • Bengali: “অফফা, নাইজেরিয়া”
  • Catalan: “Offa”
  • Cebuano: “Offa”
  • Chinese: “Offa”
  • Chinese: “尼日利亚”
  • Danish: “Offa”
  • Dutch: “Offa, Nigeria”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ايجاجبو اوفا”
  • Esperanto: “Offa (Niĝerio)”
  • Esperanto: “Offa”
  • Finnish: “Offa, Nigeria”
  • French: “Offa”
  • Fulah: “Offa”
  • German: “Offa”
  • Greek: “Όφφα”
  • Gujarati: “ઑફા, નાઇજીરિયા”
  • Hausa: “Offa (Nijeriya)”
  • Hausa: “Offa”
  • Hindi: “इजागबो ऑफा”
  • Igbo: “ibolo kingdom”
  • Igbo: “Iyeru okin”
  • Igbo: “Ofa-ile”
  • Igbo: “Ofa”
  • Igbo: “Offa”
  • Igbo: “Olalomi”
  • Indonesian: “Offa, Nigeria”
  • Irish: “Offa”
  • Italian: “Offa”
  • Japanese: “Ibolo kingdom”
  • Japanese: “Iyeru okin”
  • Japanese: “Ofa-ile”
  • Japanese: “Ofa”
  • Japanese: “Olalomi”
  • Japanese: “イェルオキン”
  • Japanese: “イボロ王国”
  • Japanese: “オッファ”
  • Japanese: “オファイレ”
  • Japanese: “オラロミ”
  • Kannada: “ಆಫಾ, ನೈಜೀರಿಯಾ”
  • Korean: “오파, 나이지리아”
  • Latvian: “Ofa”
  • Lithuanian: “Ofa, Nigerija”
  • Malay: “Offa, Nigeria”
  • Marathi: “ऑफा, नायजेरिया”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Offa”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Offa, Nigeria”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Offa, Nigeria”
  • Polish: “Offa (miasto)”
  • Polish: “Offa”
  • Portuguese: “Offa”
  • Russian: “Оффа (Нигерия)”
  • Russian: “Оффа”
  • Silesian: “Offa (mjasto)”
  • Silesian: “Offa”
  • Sinhala: “ඔෆා ,නයිජීරියා”
  • Spanish: “Offa”
  • Swedish: “Offa”
  • Tamil: “ஒப்பா , நைஜீரியா”
  • Telugu: “ఆఫీ, నైజీరియా”
  • Thai: “ออฟฟา, ไนจีเรีย”
  • Turkish: “Offa, Nijerya”
  • Ukrainian: “Оффа”
  • Urdu: “وفا ، نائیجیریا”
  • Vietnamese: “Offa, Nigeria”
  • Yoruba: “Ìlú Offa ní agbègbè Offa ní Ìpínlẹ̀ Kwara”
  • Yoruba: “Ọ̀fà”

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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 “Offa”. Photo: James Rhoda, CC BY-SA 4.0.