Sokoto

Sokoto is the capital city of in . Being the seat of the former Sokoto Caliphate, the city is predominantly Muslim and an important seat of Islamic learning in Nigeria.
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  • Type: City with 428,000 residents
  • Description: a city in Nigeria, capital of Sokoto State
  • Also known as: “Birnin Sokoto”, “city of Sokoto”, “Sakatou”, “Sakkwato”, “Sokoto City”, “Sokoto, Nigeria”, “Sokoton Shehu”, “Сакота (горад)”, “سقطو (ولاية)”, “سقطو (ولايه)”, “سوكوتو (ولاية)”, “ولاية صكتو”, and “ولايه سقطو”
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Sokoto

Latitude
13.0611° or 13° 3′ 40″ north
Longitude
5.2373° or 5° 14′ 14″ east
Population
428,000
Elevation
296 metres (971 feet)
IATA airport code
SKO
UN/LOCODE
NG SKO
Open location code
7F57366P+CW
Open­Street­Map ID
node 501540904
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2322911
Wiki­data ID
Q336350
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yoruba—“Sokoto” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Sokoto stad”
  • Albanian: “Sokoto”
  • Amharic: “ሶኮቶ”
  • Arabic: “سوكوتو”
  • Arabic: “صكتو”
  • Arabic: “ولاية سقطو”
  • Armenian: “Սոկոտո (քաղաք)”
  • Armenian: “Սոկոտո”
  • Asturian: “Sokoto”
  • Azerbaijani: “Sokoto”
  • Basque: “Sokoto”
  • Bavarian: “Sokoto”
  • Belarusian: “Сакота”
  • Bengali: “সোকোটো”
  • Bengali: “সোকোতো”
  • Catalan: “Sokoto”
  • Cebuano: “Sokoto”
  • Chinese: “索科托”
  • Croatian: “Sokoto”
  • Czech: “Sokoto”
  • Dagbani: “Sokoto”
  • Danish: “Sokoto”
  • Dutch: “Sokoto”
  • Esperanto: “Sokoto”
  • Finnish: “Sokoto”
  • French: “Sokoto”
  • Galician: “Sokoto”
  • Georgian: “სოკოტო”
  • German: “Sokoto”
  • Greek: “Σοκότο”
  • Gujarati: “સોકોટો”
  • Hausa: “Sokoto”
  • Hebrew: “סוקוטו”
  • Hindi: “सिकोटौ”
  • Hindi: “सोकोटो”
  • Hungarian: “Sokoto”
  • Igbo: “Sokoto”
  • Indonesian: “Sokoto”
  • Italian: “Sokoto”
  • Japanese: “ソコト”
  • Javanese: “Sokoto”
  • Jju: “Sokoto”
  • Kannada: “ಸೊಕೊಟೊ”
  • Karekare: “Sokoto”
  • Kazakh: “Сокото”
  • Kirghiz: “Сокото”
  • Korean: “소코토”
  • Latvian: “Sokoto”
  • Lithuanian: “Sokotas”
  • Lombard: “Sokoto”
  • Macedonian: “Сокото”
  • Malagasy: “Sokoto”
  • Malay: “Sokoto”
  • Marathi: “सोकोटो”
  • Northern Frisian: “Sokoto”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Sokoto”
  • Norwegian: “Sokoto”
  • Oromo: “Sokoto”
  • Panjabi: “ਸੋਕੋਟੋ”
  • Persian: “سوکوتو”
  • Polish: “Sokoto”
  • Portuguese: “Socoto”
  • Portuguese: “Sokoto”
  • Pushto: “سوکوتو”
  • Romanian: “Sokoto”
  • Russian: “Сокото”
  • Sinhala: “සොකොටෝ”
  • Slovenian: “Sokoto”
  • Somali: “Sokoto”
  • South Azerbaijani: “سوکوتو”
  • Spanish: “Sokoto”
  • Swahili: “Sokoto”
  • Swedish: “Sokoto”
  • Tagalog: “Sokoto”
  • Tajik: “Сокото”
  • Tamil: “சொகொட்டோ”
  • Tatar: “Сокото”
  • Telugu: “సొకోటో”
  • Thai: “ซากาตะ”
  • Turkish: “Sokoto”
  • Tyap: “Sokoto”
  • Ukrainian: “Сокото”
  • Urdu: “سوکوتو”
  • Urdu: “سوکوٹو”
  • Uzbek: “Sokoto”
  • Vietnamese: “Sokoto”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Sokoto”
  • Yoruba: “Sókótó”

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