Zaria
Zaria is a major city in Kaduna State, North West Nigeria 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.
- Type: City with 980,000 residents
- Description: city and local government area in Kaduna, Nigeria
- Also known as: “Zaria city”, “Za̱za̱u”, “Zazzau”, “Զարիյա”, and “زاريا ()”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Wusasa.
Wusasa
Village
Wusasa is a town just outside the major city of Zaria in Kaduna State in Northern Nigeria.
Zaria
- Categories: local government area of Nigeria and locality
- Location: Kaduna State, North West Nigeria, Nigeria, West Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
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
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yoruba—“Zaria” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Zaria”
- Arabic: “زاريا”
- Armenian: “Զարիա”
- Asturian: “Zaria”
- Azerbaijani: “Zariya”
- Basque: “Zaria”
- Belarusian: “Зарыя”
- Bengali: “জারািয়া”
- Bole: “Zariya”
- Catalan: “Zaria”
- Central Kanuri: “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”
- Greek: “Ζάρια”
- Gujarati: “ઝારીયા”
- Hausa: “Tarihin Zariya”
- Hausa: “Zaria”
- Hausa: “Zariya”
- Hebrew: “זריה”
- Hindi: “ज़ारिया”
- 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”
- 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”
- Ukrainian: “Заріа”
- Ukrainian: “Зарія”
- Urdu: “زاریا”
- Uzbek: “Zariya”
- Veps: “Zaria”
- Vietnamese: “Zaria”
- Waray (Philippines): “Zaria”
- Yoruba: “Zaria”
- “Zaria”
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