Yobe State
Yobe is a state located in northeastern Nigeria. A mainly agricultural state, Yobe as created on 27 August 1991. Yobe State was carved out of Borno State.
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Yobe State
- Type: state of Nigeria with 3,650,000 residents
- Description: state in the northern part of Nigeria
- Also known as: “Ipinle Yobe”, “Jobe-ŝtato”, “NG-YO”, “Si̱tet Yobe”, “subŝtato Jobe”, “يوبي”, and “యోబ్ రాష్ట్రము”
- Neighbors: Bauchi State, Borno State, Gombe State, and Jigawa State
- Location: North East Nigeria, Nigeria, West Africa, Africa
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Latitude of center
12° north
Longitude of center
11.5° or 11° 30′ east
Population
3,650,000
Elevation
373 metres (1,224 feet)
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Yue Chinese—“Yobe State” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ዮበ ግዛት”
- Arabic: “ولاية يوبي”
- Azerbaijani: “Yobe ştatı”
- Bengali: “ইয়ব অঙ্গরাজ্য”
- Bole: “Jiha Yobe”
- Bulgarian: “Йобе”
- Catalan: “Yobe”
- Cebuano: “Yobe State”
- Central Kanuri: “Yobe”
- Chinese: “約貝州”
- Chinese: “约贝州”
- Croatian: “Yobe (država)”
- Croatian: “Yobe”
- Czech: “Yobe”
- Danish: “Yobe”
- Dutch: “Yobe”
- Esperanto: “Jobe Ŝtato”
- Esperanto: “Jobe”
- Estonian: “Yobe osariik”
- Estonian: “Yobe”
- Finnish: “Yobe”
- French: “Yobe”
- Fulah: “Diiwal Yobe”
- Galician: “Yobe”
- Georgian: “იობეს შტატი”
- German: “Yobe”
- Greek: “Γιόμπε”
- Gujarati: “યોબે સ્ટેટ”
- Gun: “Ayimatẹn Yobe Tọn”
- Hausa: “Jihar Yobe”
- Hausa: “Yobe”
- Hebrew: “יובה”
- Hindi: “योबे राज्य”
- Igala: “Yobe”
- Igbo: “Ȯra Yobe”
- Igbo: “Yobe steeti”
- Indonesian: “Yobe”
- Italian: “Yobe”
- Japanese: “ヨベ州”
- Javanese: “Yobe State”
- Kannada: “ಯೊಬೆ ರಾಜ್ಯ”
- Karekare: “Yobe”
- Kazakh: “Йобе штаты”
- Kirghiz: “Йобе штаты”
- Korean: “요베주”
- Latvian: “Jobe”
- Latvian: “Jobes štats”
- Lithuanian: “Jobės valstija”
- Malay: “Yobe State”
- Marathi: “याबे राज्य”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Yobe Chiu”
- Nepali: “योबे राज्य”
- Nigerian Pidgin: “Yobe state”
- Nigerian Pidgin: “Yobe State”
- Northern Frisian: “Yobe (Bundesstoot)”
- Northern Frisian: “Yobe”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Yobe”
- Norwegian: “Yobe”
- Obolo: “Yobe”
- Oromo: “Yobe State”
- Panjabi: “ਯੋਬੇ ਸਟੇਟ”
- Persian: “ایالت یوبه”
- Polish: “Yobe”
- Portuguese: “Yobe”
- Pushto: “یوبې ایالت”
- Romanian: “Statul Yobe”
- Russian: “Йобе”
- Serbian: “Јобе”
- Sindhi: “يوبي رياست”
- Sinhala: “යෝබේ ප්රාන්තය”
- Sinhala: “යෝබේ රාජ්ය”
- Slovenian: “Yobe”
- Somali: “Yobe State”
- South Azerbaijani: “یوبه ایالتی”
- Spanish: “Estado de Yobe”
- Spanish: “Yobe”
- Swahili: “Jimbo la Yobe”
- Swedish: “Yobe”
- Tajik: “Вилояти Йобе”
- Tamil: “யோபெ மாநிலம்”
- Tatar: “Yobe Ştaty”
- Telugu: “యోబ్ స్టేట్”
- Thai: “โยบี”
- Tumbuka: “Yobe State”
- Turkish: “Yobe Eyaleti”
- Turkish: “Yobe”
- Tyap: “A̱byin Yobe”
- Ukrainian: “Йобе”
- Urdu: “یوبے اسٹیٹ”
- Uzbek: “Yobe shtati”
- Vietnamese: “Bang Yobe”
- Waray (Philippines): “Yobe (estado)”
- Waray (Philippines): “Yobe”
- Western Mari: “Йобе”
- Yoruba: “Ìpínlẹ̀ Yobe”
- Yoruba: “Yobe State”
- Yue Chinese: “約貝州”
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