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.
- Village with about 162,000 residents
- …lies at an elevation of around 420 metres (1,380 feet)
- Description: LGA and city in Niger State, Nigeria
- Also known as“Abuja”“Sulaija”“Suleija”
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Latitude
9.1758° or 9° 10′ 33″ north
Longitude
7.1808° or 7° 10′ 51″ east
Open location code
6FX955GJ+88
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OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Bole to Yoruba—“Suleja” goes by many names.
- Bole: “Suleja”
- Catalan: “Suleja”
- Cebuano: “Suleja (distrito)”
- Cebuano: “Suleja”
- Central Kanuri: “Suleja”
- Chinese: “苏莱贾”
- Chinese: “蘇雷賈”
- Dagbani: “Suleja”
- Dutch: “Suleja”
- Esperanto: “Suleja”
- Finnish: “Suleja”
- French: “Suleja”
- Fulah: “Suleja”
- German: “Suleja”
- Gun: “Suleja”
- Hausa: “Suleja”
- Igala: “Suleja”
- Igbo: “Suleja”
- Italian: “Suleja”
- Japanese: “スレジャ”
- Karekare: “Suleja”
- 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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