Suleja
Suleja is a city and Local Government Area in Niger State, Nigeria, just north of Abuja, capital of the country. It is sometimes confused with the nearby city of Abuja, due to its proximity and the fact that it was originally named Abuja before the Nigerian government adopted the name from the then Emir Sulayman Bal for its new federal capital in 1976.Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 1.0.
- Type: Village with 162,000 residents
- Description: LGA and city in Niger State, Nigeria
- Also known as: “Abuja”, “Sulaija”, and “Suleija”
Suleja
- Categories: local government area of Nigeria and locality
- Location: Niger State, North Central Nigeria, Nigeria, West Africa, Africa
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Latitude
9.1758° or 9° 10′ 33″ northLongitude
7.1808° or 7° 10′ 51″ eastPopulation
162,000Elevation
421 metres (1,381 feet)Open location code
6FX955GJ+88OpenStreetMap ID
node 501516425OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2322794Wikidata ID
Q3505231
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Yoruba—“Suleja” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Suleja”
- Cebuano: “Suleja (distrito)”
- Cebuano: “Suleja”
- Central Kanuri: “Suleja”
- Chinese: “Suleja”
- Chinese: “苏莱贾”
- Chinese: “蘇雷賈”
- Dagbani: “Suleja”
- Dutch: “Suleja”
- Esperanto: “Suleja”
- Finnish: “Suleja”
- French: “Suleja”
- Fulah: “Suleja”
- Gun: “Suleja”
- Hausa: “Suleja”
- Igala: “Suleja”
- Igbo: “Suleja”
- Italian: “Suleja”
- Japanese: “スレジャ”
- Malagasy: “Suleja”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Suleja”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Suleja”
- Norwegian: “Suleja”
- Nupe-Nupe-Tako: “Suleja–Minna Road”
- Polish: “Suleja”
- Romanian: “Suleja”
- Russian: “Абуджа”
- Russian: “Суледжа”
- Spanish: “Suleja”
- Tyap: “Suleja”
- Yoruba: “Suleja”
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