Nigeria
North West Nigeria
Kaduna State

Zaria

Zaria is a major city in , and is a local government area. It is one of the original seven Hausa city-states. It's also one of the popular places to visit in Northern Nigeria.
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Places in the Area

Nearby places include Wusasa.

Village
is a town just outside the major city of Zaria in in Northern .

Zaria

Latitude
11.1135° or 11° 6′ 49″ north
Longitude
7.7188° or 7° 43′ 8″ east
Population
980,000
Elevation
644 metres (2,113 feet)
IATA airport code
ZAR
United Nations Location Code
NG ZAR
Open location code
7F394P79+9G
Open­Street­Map ID
node 501388581
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2317765
Wiki­data ID
Q147975
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yoruba—“Zaria” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Zaria”
  • Arabic: “زاريا ()”
  • Arabic: “زاريا”
  • Armenian: “Զարիա”
  • Armenian: “Զարիյա”
  • Asturian: “Zaria”
  • Azerbaijani: “Zariya”
  • Basque: “Zaria”
  • Belarusian: “Зарыя”
  • Bengali: “জারািয়া”
  • Catalan: “Zaria”
  • Central Kanuri: “Zaria”
  • Chinese: “Zaria”
  • Chinese: “扎里亚”
  • Croatian: “Zaria”
  • Czech: “Zaria”
  • Danish: “Zaria”
  • Dutch: “Zaria”
  • Esperanto: “Zaria”
  • Finnish: “Zaria”
  • French: “Zaria”
  • Fulah: “Zariya”
  • Galician: “Zaria”
  • German: “Zaria”
  • German: “Zazzau”
  • Greek: “Ζάρια”
  • Gujarati: “ઝારીયા”
  • Hausa: “birnin ilimi”
  • Hausa: “Tarihin Zariya”
  • Hausa: “Zariya”
  • Hebrew: “זריה”
  • Hindi: “ज़ाय्या”
  • Hungarian: “Zaria”
  • Igbo: “Zaria”
  • Indonesian: “Zaria”
  • Italian: “Zaria”
  • Japanese: “ザリア”
  • Kannada: “ಝರಿಯಾ”
  • Kashmiri: “زارِیا”
  • Korean: “자리아”
  • Latvian: “Zarija”
  • Lithuanian: “Zarija”
  • Malay: “Zaria”
  • Malayalam: “സരിയ”
  • Marathi: “झरिया”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Zaria”
  • Nigerian Pidgin: “Zaria city”
  • Nigerian Pidgin: “Zaria”
  • Northern Frisian: “Zaria”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Zaria”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Zaria”
  • Norwegian: “Zaria”
  • Panjabi: “ਜ਼ਾਰੀਆ”
  • Persian: “زاریا”
  • Polish: “Zaria”
  • Portuguese: “Zaria”
  • Romanian: “Zaria, Nigeria”
  • Romanian: “Zaria”
  • Russian: “Зариа”
  • Russian: “Заря”
  • Scots: “Zaria”
  • Silesian: “Zaria (mjasto)”
  • Silesian: “Zaria”
  • Sinhala: “සරියා”
  • South Azerbaijani: “زاریا (شهر)”
  • South Azerbaijani: “زاریا”
  • Spanish: “Zaria”
  • Swahili: “Zaria”
  • Swedish: “Zaria”
  • Tamil: “சரியா”
  • Telugu: “జారియా”
  • Thai: “ซาเรีย”
  • Turkish: “Zaria”
  • Tyap: “Zariya”
  • Tyap: “Za̱za̱u”
  • Ukrainian: “Заріа”
  • Ukrainian: “Зарія”
  • Urdu: “زاریا”
  • Uzbek: “Zaria”
  • Uzbek: “Zariya”
  • Veps: “Zaria”
  • Vietnamese: “Zaria”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Zaria”
  • Yoruba: “Zaria”

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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 “Zaria”. Photo: shirazc, CC BY-SA 2.0.