Onitsha
Onitsha is a city of 1.5 million people in Anambra State, Southeast Nigeria. Onitsha can claim two distinctions. First, it is said to have the largest market in Africa in terms of volume of goods and geographical size.
- Type: City with 1,080,000 residents
- Description: City in Anambra state, Nigeria
- Also known as: “Önïca”, “Onicha”, “Onicha mmili”, and “Ọ̀nị̀chà Mmílí”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Nkpor.
Onitsha
- Categories: Local Government Area, big city, and locality
- Location: Onitsha North, Anambra State, South East Nigeria, Nigeria, West Africa, Africa
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Latitude
6.1462° or 6° 8′ 46″ north
Longitude
6.8019° or 6° 48′ 7″ east
Population
1,080,000
Elevation
57 metres (187 feet)
Open location code
6FR84RW2+FQ
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yoruba—“Onitsha” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “أونيتشا”
- Arabic: “اونيتشا”
- Armenian: “Օնիչա”
- Asturian: “Onitsha”
- Bengali: “ওনিৎসাঁ”
- Breton: “Onitsha”
- Bulgarian: “Онитша”
- Bulgarian: “Онича”
- Catalan: “Onitsha”
- Cebuano: “Onitsha”
- Chinese: “奥尼查”
- Chinese: “奧尼查”
- Croatian: “Onitsha”
- Czech: “Onitsha”
- Dagbani: “Onitsha”
- Danish: “Onitsha”
- Dutch: “Onitsha”
- Egyptian Arabic: “اونيتشا”
- Esperanto: “Oniĉjo”
- Esperanto: “Onitsha”
- Estonian: “Onitsha”
- Finnish: “Onitsha”
- French: “Onitsha”
- Fulah: “Onitsha”
- German: “Onitsha”
- Greek: “Ονίτσα”
- Gujarati: “ઓનિષા”
- Hausa: “Onitsha”
- Hebrew: “אוניטשה”
- Hindi: “ओनिचा”
- Hungarian: “Onitsha”
- Igbo: “Onịchạ”
- Indonesian: “Onitsha”
- Irish: “Onitsha”
- Italian: “Onitsha”
- Japanese: “オニチャ”
- Kannada: “ಒನಿತ್ಶಾ”
- Korean: “오니차”
- Latvian: “Oniča”
- Lithuanian: “Oniča”
- Macedonian: “Онича”
- Malagasy: “Onitsha”
- Malay: “Onitsha”
- Marathi: “ओनिंशा”
- Nigerian Pidgin: “Onitsha”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Onitsha”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Onitsha”
- Norwegian: “Onitsha”
- Persian: “اونیتشا”
- Polish: “Onitsha”
- Portuguese: “Onitsha”
- Romanian: “Onitsha”
- Russian: “Онича”
- Sindhi: “اونيشا”
- Sinhala: “ඔනිට්ශා”
- Slovak: “Onitsha”
- Spanish: “Onitsha”
- Swahili: “Onitsha”
- Swedish: “Onitsha”
- Tamil: “யோனிட்க்ஷ”
- Telugu: “వోనిట్ష”
- Thai: “โอนิทชา”
- Turkish: “Onitsha”
- Tyap: “A̱ni̱ca”
- Ukrainian: “Оніча”
- Urdu: “اونیتشا”
- Venetian: “Onitsha”
- Vietnamese: “Onitsha”
- Waray (Philippines): “Onitsha”
- Welsh: “Onitsha”
- Yoruba: “Onitsha”
- “Onitsha”
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