Abuja
Abuja is the capital of Nigeria. Because most Nigerian government agencies are now headquartered in Abuja and most other countries' embassies have been relocated from Lagos to Abuja, it is a surprisingly expensive city.Photo: Oviidaniel, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Jeff Attaway, CC BY 2.0.
Popular Destinations
Wuse
Wuse is a district near Abuja in the Federal Capital Territory, North Central Nigeria.Gwarinpa
Gwarinpa is a developed district in Abuja Phase 3 which has the largest single housing estate in Nigeria.Asokoro
Asokoro is a town in Abuja in the Federal Capital Territory, North Central Nigeria.Destinations
Garki
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Garki is a district in Abuja. Garki is a very important district in Abuja, as in fact it is seen as the principal business and administrative district of Abuja as there are a lot of tourists attraction in the district.
Nyanya
New Nyanya is a town in Nasarawa State. It is a district of Karu Local Government Area, Nasarawa State, and is among the towns that make up the Karu Urban Area, a conurbation of towns stretching into the Federal Capital Territory.Photo: Fawaz.tairou, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Places in the Area
Apostolic Nunciature of the Holy See in Nigeria
The Apostolic Nunciature to Nigeria is the diplomatic mission of the Holy See to Nigeria.Embassy of Switzerland to Nigeria
Photo: Niegodzisie, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Embassy of Switzerland to Nigeria is a government office.
Embassy of Indonesia in Nigeria
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Embassy of Indonesia in Nigeria is a government office.
Localities in the Area
Abuja
- Type: City with 776,000 residents
- Description: capital city of Nigeria
- Categories: capital city, big city, million city and locality
- Location: Municipal Area Council, Federal Capital Territory, North Central Nigeria, Nigeria, West Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
9.0643° or 9° 3' 52" northLongitude
7.4893° or 7° 29' 22" eastPopulation
776,000Elevation
476 metres (1,562 feet)IATA airport code
ABVUnited Nations Location Code
NG ABVOpen Location Code
6FX93F7Q+PPOpenStreetMap ID
node 31203257OpenStreetMap Feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
2352778Wikidata ID
Q3787Abuja Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Abkhazian: Abuja
- Achinese: Abuja
- Afar: Abuja
- Afrikaans: Abuja
- Akan: ABJ
- Akan: ABV
- Akan: Abuja
- Akan: FCT
- Akan: Federal Capital Territory
- Albanian: Abuja
- Albanian: Abuxha
- Amharic: አቡጃ
- Arabic: Abuja
- Arabic: أبوجا
- Aragonese: Abuja
- Armenian: Աբուջա
- Arpitan: Abuja
- Asturian: Abuya
- Avaric: Abuja
- Awadhi: अबुजा
- Azerbaijani: Abuca
- Balinese: Abuja
- Bashkir: Абуджа
- Basque: Abuja
- Belarusian: Абуджа
- Bengali: আবুজা
- Bosnian: Abuja
- Breton: Abuja
- Bulgarian: Абуджа
- Burmese: အဘူဂျာမြို့
- Catalan: Abuja
- Cebuano: Abuja
- Central Bikol: Abuja
- Central Kurdish: ئابوجا
- Central Kurdish: ئەبووجا
- Chechen: Абуджа
- Chinese: Abuja
- Chinese: 阿布加
- Chinese: 阿布札
- Chinese: 阿布賈
- Chinese: 阿布贾
- Chuvash: Абуджа
- Croatian: Abuja
- Czech: Abuja
- Danish: Abuja
- Dimli (individual language): Abuca
- Dutch: Abuja
- Egyptian Arabic: ابوجا
- English: ABJ
- English: ABV
- English: FCT
- English: Federal Capital Territory
- Esperanto: Abuĝo
- Estonian: Abuja
- Faroese: Abuja
- Fiji Hindi: Abuja
- Finnish: Abuja
- French: Abuja
- Fulah: FCT
- Galician: Abuja
- Georgian: აბუჯა
- German: Abuja
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: ABJ
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: ABV
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: Abuja
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: FCT
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: Federal Capital Territory
- Greek: Αμπούζα
- Greek: Αμπούτζα
- Guarani: Avúja
- Gujarati: Abuja
- Gujarati: અબુજા
- Gun: Abuja
- Haitian: Abouja
- Hakka Chinese: Abuja
- Hausa: Abuja
- Hausa: F. C. T
- Hebrew: אבוג'ה
- Hebrew: אבוגה
- Hindi: अबुजा
- Hungarian: Abuja
- Icelandic: Abuja
- Icelandic: Abútja
- Ido: Abuja
- Igbo: Abuja
- Inari Sami: Abuja
- Indonesian: Abuja
- Interlingua: Abuja
- Interlingue: Abuja
- Irish: Abuja
- Italian: Abuja
- Jamaican Creole English: Abuja
- Japanese: アブジャ
- Javanese: Abuja
- Kabiyè: Abuuja
- Kabyle: Abuja
- Kannada: ಅಬುಜಾ
- Kannada: ಅಬೂಜ
- Kara-Kalpak: Abuja
- Kazakh: Абуджа
- Kikuyu: Abuja
- Kinyarwanda: Abuja
- Kirghiz: Абужа
- Kongo: Abuja
- Korean: 아부자
- Kotava: Abuja
- Kurdish: Abuja
- Kurdish: Ebuca
- Latin: Abugia
- Latvian: Abudža
- Ligurian: Abuja
- Lingala: Abuja
- Lingua Franca Nova: Abuja
- Lithuanian: Abudža
- Livvi: Abudža
- Lombard: Abuja
- Luxembourgish: Abuja
- Macedonian: Абуџа
- Maithili: अबुजा
- Malagasy: Abuja
- Malay: Abuja
- Malayalam: അബുജ
- Maltese: Abuja
- Marathi: अबुजा
- Mazanderani: آبوجا
- Min Dong Chinese: Abuja
- Min Nan Chinese: Abuja
- Mingrelian: აბუჯა
- Moksha: Абуджа
- Mongolian: Абужа
- Moroccan Arabic: أبوجا
- Navajo: Tsétsoh Dijoolí
- Nepali: अबुजा
- Nigerian Pidgin: Abuja
- Nigerian Pidgin: F. C. T
- Northern Frisian: Abuja
- Norwegian: Abuja
- Norwegian Bokmål: Abuja
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Abuja
- Novial: Abuja
- Occitan (post 1500): Abuja
- Oriya: ଅବୁଜା
- Ossetian: Абуджæ
- Ossetian: Абуджа
- Pampanga: Abuja
- Panjabi: ਅਬੁਜਾ
- Papiamento: Abuja
- Persian: آبوجا
- Piemontese: Abuja
- Polish: Abudża
- Portuguese: Abuja
- Pushto: آبوجا
- Quechua: Abuja
- Romanian: Abuja
- Russian: Абуджа
- Samogitian: Abodža
- Santali: ᱟᱵᱩᱡᱟ
- Saraiki: ابوجا
- Sardinian: Abuja
- Scots: Abuja
- Scottish Gaelic: Abuja
- Serbian: Абуџа
- Serbo-Croatian: Abuja
- Shona: Abuja
- Silesian: Abudża
- Sinhala: අබුජා
- Slovak: Abuja
- Slovenian: Abuja
- Somali: Abuja
- South Azerbaijani: آبوجا
- Spanish: ABJ
- Spanish: Abuja
- Spanish: Abuya
- Spanish: FCT
- Spanish: La ciudad bella
- Swahili: Abuja
- Swedish: Abuja
- Tagalog: Abuja
- Tajik: Абуҷа
- Talysh: Abuca
- Tamil: அபுஜா
- Tatar: Абуҗа
- Telugu: అబూజా
- Telugu: అబ్యూజా
- Thai: อาบูจา
- Tibetan: ཨ་པུ་ཅ།
- Turkish: Abuja
- Tyap: Abuja
- Tyap: A̱buja
- Udmurt: Абуджа
- Ukrainian: Абуджа
- Urdu: ابوجا
- Uzbek: Abuja
- Venetian: Abuja
- Veps: Abudž
- Veps: Abuja
- Vietnamese: Abuja
- Volapük: Abuja
- Võro: Abuja
- Waray (Philippines): Abuja
- Welsh: Abuja
- Western Frisian: Abuja
- Western Mari: Абуджа
- Western Panjabi: ابوجا
- Wu Chinese: 阿布贾
- Xhosa: Abuja
- Yiddish: אבודזשא
- Yoruba: Abùjá
- Yoruba: Àbújá
- Yue Chinese: 阿布賈
Popular Destinations in Federal Capital Territory
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