Sokoto State
Sokoto State is in the extreme northwest of the country on the national border with the Republic of the Niger in North West Nigeria. Sokoto state was created in 1996 by the then Head of State and Commander-in-Chief of the Arm Forces, Federal Republic of Nigeria, General Sani Abacha GCFR.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Sokoto
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Sokoto is the capital city of Sokoto State in North West Nigeria. Being the seat of the former Sokoto Caliphate, the city is predominantly Muslim and an important seat of Islamic learning in Nigeria.
Binji
Binji is a Local Government Area in Sokoto State, Nigeria. Its headquarters are in the town of Binji. It was originally established by the sons of the military commander Ali Jedo as a Ribat.Tangaza
Tangaza is a Local Government Area in Sokoto State, Nigeria. The headquarters is Gidan Madi. Tangaza shares a border with the Republic of Niger to the north. It has an area of 2,477 km2 and a population of 113,853 at the 2006 census.Sokoto State
- Type: state of Nigeria with 6,390,000 residents
- Description: State in the northern part of Nigeria
- Also known as: “labari sokoto”, “Rima State”, “Sokoto”, and “Sokoto, Nigeria”
- Neighbors: Kebbi State and Zamfara State
- Location: North West Nigeria, Nigeria, West Africa, Africa
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Sokoto State” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “سقطو”
- Arabic: “صكتو”
- Arabic: “ولاية صكتو”
- Armenian: “Սոկոտո (նահանգ)”
- Armenian: “Սոկոտո”
- Azerbaijani: “Sokoto ştatı”
- Basque: “Sokoto”
- Bengali: “সোকোটো অঙ্গরাজ্য”
- Bislama: “Sokoto State”
- Bulgarian: “Сокото”
- Catalan: “Estat de Sokoto”
- Cebuano: “Sokoto State”
- Central Kanuri: “Sokoto”
- Chinese: “Sokoto Chiu”
- Chinese: “索科托州”
- Czech: “Sokoto (stát)”
- Czech: “Sokoto”
- Danish: “Sokoto”
- Dutch: “Sokoto”
- Esperanto: “Sokoto”
- Esperanto: “subŝtato Sokoto”
- Estonian: “Sokoto osariik”
- Finnish: “Sokoto”
- French: “État de Sokoto”
- French: “Sokoto”
- Fulah: “Sakkwatoɓe”
- Galician: “Estado de Sokoto”
- Georgian: “სოკოტოს შტატი”
- German: “NG-SO”
- German: “Sokoto”
- Greek: “Σοκότο”
- Gujarati: “સોકોટો સ્ટેટ”
- Hausa: “jihar Sokoto”
- Hausa: “Sokoto”
- Hausa: “Sokoton Garin shehu”
- Hindi: “सोकोटो राज्य”
- Igbo: “Ȯra Sokoto”
- Igbo: “Sokoto steeti”
- Igbo: “Sokoto”
- Indonesian: “Sokoto”
- Italian: “Sokoto”
- Japanese: “ソコト州”
- Kannada: “ಸೊಕೊಟೊ ರಾಜ್ಯ”
- Korean: “소코토주”
- Latvian: “Sokoto štats”
- Latvian: “Sokoto”
- Lithuanian: “Sokoto valstija”
- Lombard: “Sokoto”
- Malay: “Sokoto State”
- Marathi: “सोकोटो राज्य”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Sokoto Chiu”
- Nigerian Pidgin: “Sokoto state”
- Nigerian Pidgin: “Sokoto State”
- Northern Frisian: “Sokoto (Bundesstoot)”
- Northern Frisian: “Sokoto”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sokoto”
- Norwegian: “Sokoto”
- Nupe-Nupe-Tako: “Sokoto State”
- Obolo: “Sokoto (Agan̄-mkpulu)”
- Obolo: “Sokoto”
- Persian: “ایالت سوکوتو”
- Polish: “Sokoto”
- Portuguese: “Estado de Sokoto”
- Portuguese: “Socoto”
- Portuguese: “Sokoto”
- Romanian: “Statul Sokoto”
- Russian: “Сокото”
- Serbian: “Сокото”
- Sindhi: “سوڪوٽو رياست”
- Sinhala: “සොකොටෝ රාජ්ය”
- Sinhala: “සොකෝටෝ ප්රාන්තය”
- Slovenian: “Sokoto”
- South Azerbaijani: “سوکوتو ایالتی”
- Spanish: “Estado de Sokoto”
- Spanish: “Sokoto”
- Swahili: “Jimbo la Sokoto”
- Swahili: “Sokoto State”
- Swahili: “Sokoto”
- Swedish: “Sokoto”
- Tamil: “சொகொட்டோ மாநிலம்”
- Telugu: “సోకోటో రాష్ట్రం”
- Thai: “รัฐโซโกโตะ”
- Tumbuka: “Sokoto State, Nigeria”
- Turkish: “Sokoto Eyaleti”
- Turkish: “Sokoto”
- Tyap: “Si̱tet Sokoto”
- Ukrainian: “Сокото”
- Urdu: “سوکوتو اسٹیٹ”
- Urdu: “سوکوتو ریاست”
- Vietnamese: “Bang Sokoto”
- Waray (Philippines): “Sokoto (estado)”
- Waray (Philippines): “Sokoto”
- Western Mari: “Сокото”
- Yoruba: “Ipinle Sokoto”
- Yoruba: “Ìpínlẹ̀ Sokoto”
- Yoruba: “Sokoto State”
- Yue Chinese: “索科托州”
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About Mapcarta. 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 “Sokoto State”. Photo: Jensbn, CC BY-SA 3.0.