Wukari
Wukari is the name both of a local government area in Taraba State, in north eastern Nigeria, and of its main town. This article covers both.- Type: City with 242,000 residents
- Description: local government area and town in Nigeria
- Also known as: “Ukari” and “Ukari wa ki Uka”
Wukari
- Categories: local government area of Nigeria and locality
- Location: Taraba State, North East Nigeria, Nigeria, West Africa, Africa
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Latitude
7.8705° or 7° 52′ 14″ north
Longitude
9.7776° or 9° 46′ 39″ east
Population
242,000
Elevation
189 metres (620 feet)
Open location code
6FVFVQCH+62
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yoruba—“Wukari” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ووكاري”
- Bengali: “উকারি”
- Catalan: “Wukari”
- Cebuano: “Wukari (distrito)”
- Cebuano: “Wukari”
- Chinese: “Wukari”
- Chinese: “武卡里”
- Danish: “Wukari”
- Dutch: “Wukari”
- Finnish: “Wukari”
- French: “Wukari”
- Fulah: “Wukari”
- Greek: “Γουκάρι”
- Gujarati: “વુકારી”
- Hausa: “Wukari”
- Hindi: “वुकारी”
- Igala: “Wukari”
- Igbo: “Wikari”
- Indonesian: “Wukari”
- Italian: “Wukari”
- Japanese: “ウカリ”
- Kannada: “ವುಕರಿ”
- Karekare: “Wukari”
- Korean: “우카리”
- Latvian: “Vukari”
- Lithuanian: “Vukaris”
- Malagasy: “Wukari”
- Malay: “Wukari”
- Marathi: “वुकारी”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Wukari”
- Nigerian Pidgin: “Ukari”
- Nigerian Pidgin: “Wukari”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Wukari”
- Polish: “Wukari”
- Portuguese: “Ucari”
- Portuguese: “Wukari”
- Romanian: “Wukari”
- Russian: “Вукари”
- Sinhala: “වුකාරි”
- Spanish: “Wukari”
- Swahili: “Wukari”
- Swedish: “Wukari”
- Tamil: “உக்காரி”
- Telugu: “వుకారి”
- Thai: “วาคาริซ่า”
- Turkish: “Wukari”
- Tyap: “Ukari”
- Tyap: “Wukari”
- Ukrainian: “Вукарі”
- Urdu: “ووکاری”
- Vietnamese: “Wukari”
- Yoruba: “Wukari”
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