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.
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Sokoto
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Sokoto State
- State of Nigeria with 6,390,000 residents
- …lies at an elevation of 250 metres (820 feet)
- Description: State in the northern part of Nigeria
- Also known as“labari sokoto”“Rima State”“Sokoto”“Sokoto, Nigeria”
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- Location
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Latitude of center
13.0833° or 13° 5′ north
Longitude of center
5.25° or 5° 15′ east
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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: “索科托州”
- Croatian: “Sokoto (država)”
- Croatian: “Sokoto”
- 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”
- Jju: “Sokoto”
- Kannada: “ಸೊಕೊಟೊ ರಾಜ್ಯ”
- Karekare: “Sokoto”
- 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”
- 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: “A̱byin 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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