Nigeria
South South Nigeria
Bayelsa State

Yenagoa

Yenogoa is the capital city of with a population of around 350,000 people. It is found in the South South of Nigeria. Bayelsa was carved out of Rivers State in 1996.
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  • Type: City with 353,000 residents
  • Description: local government area in Nigeria
  • Also known as: “Yenegoa”
Photo: MediaMOF, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: MediaMOF, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Samson Siasia Sports Stadium.

Stadium
Photo: Ei’eke, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a multi-use located in the Yenagoa metropolis, . It is currently used mostly for football matches and it is the home stadium of both Ocean Boys FC and the Bayelsa United.

Yenagoa

Latitude
4.9335° or 4° 56′ 1″ north
Longitude
6.2748° or 6° 16′ 29″ east
Population
353,000
Elevation
8 metres (26 feet)
Open location code
6FP8W7MF+9W
Open­Street­Map ID
node 245914677
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2318123
Wiki­data ID
Q648749
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yoruba—“Yenagoa” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “يناغوا”
  • Bengali: “ইয়েনাগোয়া”
  • Bulgarian: “Йенагоа”
  • Catalan: “Yenagoa”
  • Cebuano: “Yenagoa”
  • Cebuano: “Yenegoa”
  • Chinese: “Yenagoa”
  • Chinese: “耶纳戈阿”
  • Chinese: “耶诺亚”
  • Chinese: “耶諾亞”
  • Croatian: “Yenagoa”
  • Danish: “Yenagoa”
  • Dutch: “Yenagoa”
  • Finnish: “Yenagoa”
  • French: “Yenagoa”
  • Galician: “Yenagoa”
  • German: “Yenagoa”
  • Greek: “Γιενάγκοα”
  • Gujarati: “યેનાગોઆ”
  • Hausa: “LG.A”
  • Hausa: “Yenagoa”
  • Hindi: “येनागोआ”
  • Igbo: “Yenagoa”
  • Igbo: “Yenegoa”
  • Indonesian: “Yenagoa”
  • Italian: “Yenagoa”
  • Japanese: “イェナゴア”
  • Kannada: “ಎನಗೊವಾ”
  • Korean: “예나고아”
  • Latvian: “Jenagoa”
  • Lithuanian: “Jenagoga”
  • Malay: “Yenagoa”
  • Marathi: “येनगोआ”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Yenagoa”
  • Northern Frisian: “Yenagoa”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Yenagoa”
  • Norwegian: “Yenagoa”
  • Persian: “یناگوا”
  • Polish: “Yenagoa”
  • Portuguese: “Yenagoa”
  • Romanian: “Yenagoa”
  • Russian: “Енагоа”
  • Russian: “Йенагоа”
  • Sinhala: “යෙනගොවා”
  • Slovenian: “Yenagoa”
  • Slovenian: “Yenegoa”
  • South Azerbaijani: “یناقوا”
  • Spanish: “Yenagoa”
  • Swedish: “Yenagoa”
  • Tamil: “ஏனாகோவா”
  • Telugu: “ఏనాగోవ”
  • Thai: “เยนากัว”
  • Turkish: “Yenagoa”
  • Ukrainian: “Єнагоа”
  • Ukrainian: “Йенагоа”
  • Urdu: “یناگوا”
  • Vietnamese: “Yenagoa”
  • Yoruba: “Yenagoa”

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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 Wikivoyage page “Yenagoa”. Photo: Ei’eke, CC BY-SA 4.0.