South East Nigeria
Anambra State
Onitsha North

Onitsha

Onitsha is a city of 1.5 million people in in 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.
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  • Type: City with 1,080,000 residents
  • Description: A City in Anambra state Nigeria
  • Also known as: “Onicha”
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Photo: Koutchika Lihouenou Gaspard, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Onitsha

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)
IATA airport code
QNI
United Nations Location Codes
NG ONI and NG QNI
Open location code
6FR84RW2+FQ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 5232601618
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2326016
Wiki­data ID
Q852238
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yoruba—“Onitsha” goes by many names.
  • 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”
  • Czech: “Onitsha”
  • Danish: “Onitsha”
  • Dutch: “Onitsha”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اونيتشا”
  • Esperanto: “Oniĉjo”
  • Esperanto: “Onitsha”
  • Estonian: “Önïca”
  • Estonian: “Onitsha”
  • Finnish: “Onitsha”
  • French: “Onitsha”
  • Fulah: “Onitsha”
  • German: “Onitsha”
  • Greek: “Ονίτσα”
  • Gujarati: “ઓનિષા”
  • Hausa: “Onitsha”
  • Hebrew: “אוניטשה”
  • Hindi: “ओनित्शा”
  • Hungarian: “Onitsha”
  • Igbo: “Onicha mmili”
  • Igbo: “Ọ̀nị̀chà Mmílí”
  • 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”
  • Spanish: “Onitsha”
  • Swahili: “Onitsha”
  • Swedish: “Onitsha”
  • Tamil: “யோனிட்க்ஷ”
  • Telugu: “వోనిట్ష”
  • Thai: “โอนิทชา”
  • Turkish: “Onitsha”
  • Ukrainian: “Оніча”
  • Urdu: “اونیتشا”
  • Venetian: “Onitsha”
  • Vietnamese: “Onitsha”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Onitsha”
  • Welsh: “Onitsha”
  • Yoruba: “Onitsha”

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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 “Onitsha”. Photo: OgbuefiAkuluouno, CC BY-SA 4.0.