Potiskum
Potiskum is one of the largest cities of about in Yobe State, northeastern Nigeria. It has one of the largest cattle markets in Africa and the largest in West Africa, and also a large grain and millet market.- Type: City with 206,000 residents
- Description: Local Government Area in Yobe State, Nigeria
- Also known as: “Putuskum”
- Neighbors: Bauchi State
Potiskum
- Categories: local government area of Nigeria and locality
- Location: Yobe State, North East Nigeria, Nigeria, West Africa, Africa
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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
OpenStreetMap feature
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Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yoruba—“Potiskum” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بوتيسكوم”
- Bengali: “পটিস্কাম”
- Bole: “Potiskum”
- 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”
- Croatian: “Potiskum”
- Danish: “Potiskum”
- Dutch: “Potiskum”
- Esperanto: “Potiskum”
- Finnish: “Potiskum”
- French: “Potiskum”
- Fulah: “Pataskumo”
- Fulah: “Potiskum”
- German: “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”
- Karekare: “Potiskum”
- 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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