Plateau State
Plateau State is a state in North Central part of Nigeria. With natural formations of rocks, hills and waterfalls, it is one of the coldest states in Nigeria.
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Plateau State
- Type: state of Nigeria with 4,720,000 residents
- Description: state in Nigeria
- Also known as: “Altebena”, “Etat de Plateau”, “Ipinle Plateau”, “NG-PL”, “Stato di Plateau”, “بلاتو”, “پلیٹئو اسٹیٹ”, and “ప్లేటూ రాష్ట్రం”
- Neighbors: Bauchi State, Kaduna State, Nasarawa State, and Taraba State
- Location: North Central Nigeria, Nigeria, West Africa, Africa
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Latitude of center
9.1667° or 9° 10′ north
Longitude of center
9.75° or 9° 45′ east
Population
4,720,000
Elevation
527 metres (1,729 feet)
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Yue Chinese—“Plateau State” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ላዕላይ ግዛት”
- Arabic: “ولاية بلاتو”
- Armenian: “Պլատո (նահանգ)”
- Armenian: “Պլատո”
- Azerbaijani: “Plato ştatı”
- Bengali: “প্লেটু অঙ্গরাজ্য”
- Bislama: “Plateau State”
- Breton: “Plateau”
- Bulgarian: “Плато”
- Catalan: “Estat de Plateau”
- Cebuano: “Plateau State”
- Chinese: “高原州”
- Croatian: “Plateau (država)”
- Croatian: “Plateau”
- Czech: “Plateau”
- Danish: “Plateau”
- Dutch: “Plateau”
- Esperanto: “Ŝtato Altebeno”
- Esperanto: “subŝtato Altebena”
- Esperanto: “Subŝtato Altebena”
- Estonian: “Plateau osariik”
- Finnish: “Plateau”
- French: “État de Plateau”
- French: “Plateau”
- Fulah: “Diiwal Filato”
- Galician: “Plateau”
- Georgian: “პლატოს შტატი”
- German: “Plateau”
- Greek: “Πλατό”
- Gujarati: “પ્લેટીઓ સ્ટેટ”
- Gun: “Ayimatẹn Plateau Tọn”
- Hausa: “Filato”
- Hausa: “Jahar pilato”
- Hausa: “Plateau”
- Hebrew: “פלאטו”
- Hindi: “प्लैटो राज्य”
- Igala: “Plateau state”
- Igbo: “Ȯra Plateau”
- Indonesian: “Plateau”
- Italian: “Plateau”
- Japanese: “プラトー州”
- Javanese: “Negara Plato”
- Kannada: “ಪ್ರಸ್ಥಭೂಮಿ ರಾಜ್ಯ”
- Karekare: “Pilatau”
- Kazakh: “Жайлау облысы”
- Kirghiz: “Чокусу штаты”
- Korean: “플래토주”
- Latvian: “Plato štats”
- Latvian: “Plato”
- Lithuanian: “Plato valstija”
- Malay: “Plateau State”
- Marathi: “प्लॅटयू राज्य”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Plateau Chiu”
- Nigerian Pidgin: “Plateau State”
- Northern Frisian: “Plateau (Bundesstoot)”
- Northern Frisian: “Plateau”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Plateau”
- Norwegian: “Plateau”
- Obolo: “Pilatu”
- Oromo: “Naannoo Plato”
- Panjabi: “ਪਲੇਟੋ ਰਾਜ”
- Persian: “ایالت پلاتو”
- Polish: “Plateau”
- Portuguese: “Plateau”
- Pushto: “د تخت ایالت”
- Romanian: “Statul Plateau”
- Russian: “Плато”
- Serbian: “Плато”
- Sindhi: “پليٽو رياست”
- Sinhala: “පලාටු ප්රාන්තය”
- Sinhala: “පලාටු රාජ්ය”
- Slovenian: “Plateau”
- Somali: “Gobolka Plato”
- South Azerbaijani: “پلاتو ایالتی”
- Spanish: “Estado de Plateau”
- Spanish: “Plateau”
- Swahili: “Jimbo la Plateau”
- Swedish: “Plateau, Nigeria”
- Swedish: “Plateau”
- Tajik: “Вилояти Plato”
- Tamil: “பிளாட்டோ மாநிலம்”
- Tatar: “Plato дәүләте”
- Telugu: “ప్లేటూ స్టేట్”
- Thai: “รัฐแพทโท”
- Tumbuka: “Plateau State, Nigeria”
- Turkish: “Plateau Eyaleti”
- Turkish: “Plateau”
- Tyap: “A̱byin Pi̱lato”
- Tyap: “Si̱tet Pi̱lato”
- Ukrainian: “Плато”
- Urdu: “پلیٹئو ریاست”
- Uzbek: “Plato viloyati”
- Vietnamese: “Bang Plateau”
- Waray (Philippines): “Plateau (estado)”
- Waray (Philippines): “Plateau”
- Western Mari: “Плато”
- Yoruba: “Ìpínlẹ̀ Plateau”
- Yoruba: “Plateau State”
- Yue Chinese: “高原州”
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