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North Central Nigeria
Niger State

Suleja

Suleja is a city in , , just north of , capital of the country. It is sometimes confused with the nearby city of , due to its proximity and the fact that it was originally named before the Nigerian government adopted the name from the then Emir Sulayman Bal for its new federal capital in 1976.
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  • Type: Village with 162,000 residents
  • Description: LGA and city in Niger State, Nigeria
  • Also known as: “Abuja”, “Sulaija”, and “Suleija”

Suleja

Latitude
9.1758° or 9° 10′ 33″ north
Longitude
7.1808° or 7° 10′ 51″ east
Population
162,000
Elevation
421 metres (1,381 feet)
Open location code
6FX955GJ+88
Open­Street­Map ID
node 501516425
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
2322794
Wiki­data ID
Q3505231
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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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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Suleja”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 1.0.