Nigeria
North East Nigeria
Yobe State

Potiskum

Potiskum is one of the largest cities in , Nigeria. It has one of the largest cattle markets in Africa and the largest in , and also a large grain and millet market.
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  • Type: City with 206,000 residents
  • Description: Local Government Area in Yobe State, Nigeria
  • Also known as: “Putuskum”
  • Neighbors:
Photo: Serleh, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Potiskum

Latitude
11.7123° or 11° 42′ 44″ north
Longitude
11.0763° or 11° 4′ 35″ east
Population
206,000
Elevation
427 metres (1,401 feet)
Open location code
7F3HP36G+WG
Open­Street­Map ID
node 255322295
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2324767
Wiki­data ID
Q3309364
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yoruba—“Potiskum” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “بوتيسكوم”
  • Bengali: “পটিস্কাম”
  • Catalan: “Potiskum”
  • Cebuano: “Potiskum (distrito)”
  • Cebuano: “Potiskum (kapital sa distrito)”
  • Cebuano: “Potiskum”
  • Chinese: “Potiskum”
  • Chinese: “波蒂斯库姆”
  • Chinese: “波蒂斯庫姆”
  • Danish: “Potiskum”
  • Dutch: “Potiskum”
  • Esperanto: “Potiskum”
  • Finnish: “Potiskum”
  • French: “Potiskum”
  • Fulah: “Pataskumo”
  • Fulah: “Potiskum”
  • Greek: “Πότισκουμ”
  • Gujarati: “પોટિસ્કમ”
  • Hausa: “Fataskum”
  • Hausa: “Potiskum”
  • Hindi: “पोटेसकम”
  • Igbo: “Pataskumo”
  • Igbo: “Potiskum”
  • Indonesian: “Potiskum”
  • Italian: “Potiskum”
  • Japanese: “ポティスクム”
  • Kannada: “ಪೊಟ್ಟಿಸ್ಕ್ಯೂಮ್”
  • Korean: “포티스쿰”
  • Latvian: “Potiskuma”
  • Lithuanian: “Potiskumas”
  • Malagasy: “Potiskum”
  • Malay: “Potiskum”
  • Marathi: “पोटीस्कम”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Potiskum”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Potiskum”
  • Norwegian: “Potiskum”
  • Persian: “پوتیسکام”
  • Polish: “Potiskum”
  • Portuguese: “Potiskum”
  • Romanian: “Potiskum”
  • Russian: “Потискум”
  • Sinhala: “පොටිස්කම්”
  • Spanish: “Potiskum”
  • Swedish: “Potiskum”
  • Tamil: “போட்டிஸ்க்கும்”
  • Telugu: “పోటిస్కం”
  • Thai: “โพทิสคุม”
  • Turkish: “Patiskum”
  • Ukrainian: “Потіскум”
  • Urdu: “پوتیسکوم”
  • Vietnamese: “Potiskum”
  • Yoruba: “Potiskum”

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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 “Potiskum”. Photo: Zainab musa shu’aibu, CC BY-SA 4.0.