Borno State
Borno State is a state in North East Nigeria. It is the second-largest state in the area of the 36 states in the country, only behind Niger State which is the largest. In 2016, its population was estimated to be about 5.86 million.| Tap on the map to travel |
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- Type: state of Nigeria with 5,860,000 residents
- Description: state in Nigeria
- Neighbors: Adamawa State, Gombe State and Yobe State
- Location: North East Nigeria, Nigeria, West Africa, Africa
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Latitude of centre
11.5° or 11° 30' northLongitude of centre
13° eastPopulation
5,860,000Elevation
353 metres (1,158 feet)GeoNames ID
2346794Wikidata ID
Q130626Borno State Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Arabic: Borno
- Arabic: برنو
- Arabic: بورنو
- Arabic: ولاية بورنو
- Arabic: ولايه بورنو
- Armenian: Բորնո
- Azerbaijani: Borno
- Azerbaijani: Borno ştatı
- Azerbaijani: Bornu
- Basque: Borno
- Bengali: বর্নো অঙ্গরাজ্য
- Bislama: Borno State
- Breton: Borno
- Breton: Bornu
- Bulgarian: Борно
- Catalan: Borno
- Catalan: Bornu
- Catalan: Estat de Borno
- Catalan: estat de Borno
- Cebuano: Borno
- Cebuano: Borno State
- Chinese: Borno Chiu
- Chinese: 博尔诺州
- Chinese: 博爾諾州
- Chinese: 博爾諾省
- Czech: Borno
- Danish: Borno
- Dimli (individual language): Borno
- Dimli (individual language): Bornu
- Dutch: Borno
- English: Borno
- English: Bornu
- English: Home of peace
- Esperanto: Borno
- Esperanto: Borno Ŝtato
- Esperanto: subŝtato Borno
- Esperanto: Ŝtato Borno
- Esperanto: ŝtato Borno
- Estonian: Borno
- Estonian: Borno osariik
- Finnish: Borno
- French: Borno
- French: Etat de Borno
- French: État de Borno
- Fulah: Diiwal Borno
- Galician: Estado de Borno
- Georgian: ბორნოს შტატი
- German: Borno
- German: Bornu
- German: NG-BO
- Greek: Πολιτεία Μπόρνο
- Gujarati: બોર્નો સ્ટેટ
- Hausa: Borno
- Hausa: Bornu
- Hausa: Jihar Borno
- Hebrew: בורנו
- Hindi: बोरनो राज्य
- Igbo: Bornu
- Igbo: Ȯra Borno
- Indonesian: Borno
- Italian: Borno
- Japanese: ボルノ州
- Kannada: ಬೊರ್ನೊ ರಾಜ್ಯ
- Korean: 보르노주
- Kurdish: Borno
- Latvian: Borno štats
- Lithuanian: Borno valstija
- Macedonian: Борно
- Malay: Borno State
- Marathi: बोर्नो राज्य
- Min Nan Chinese: Borno Chiu
- Nepali: बोर्नो राज्य
- Nigerian Pidgin: Borno
- Nigerian Pidgin: Borno State
- Nigerian Pidgin: Borno state
- Nigerian Pidgin: Home of peace
- Northern Frisian: Borno (Bundesstoot)
- Northern Frisian: Borno
- Norwegian: Borno
- Norwegian Bokmål: Borno
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Borno
- Persian: ایالت بورنو
- Polish: Borno
- Portuguese: Borno
- Portuguese: Estado de Borno
- Romanian: Statul Borno
- Russian: Борно
- Serbian: Борно
- Sindhi: بورنو رياست
- Sinhala: බොර්නෝ රාජ්ය
- Slovenian: Borno
- South Azerbaijani: بورنو
- South Azerbaijani: بورنو ایالتی
- Spanish: Borno
- Spanish: Bornu
- Spanish: Estado de Borno
- Swahili: Borno
- Swahili: Borno State
- Swedish: Borno
- Tamil: போர்னோ மாநிலம்
- Telugu: బోర్నో రాష్ట్రం
- Thai: รัฐโบร์โน
- Turkish: Borno
- Turkish: Borno Eyaleti
- Tyap: Si̱tet Ba̱ri̱no
- Ukrainian: Борно
- Urdu: بورنو اسٹیٹ
- Urdu: بورنو ریاست
- Vietnamese: Borno
- Waray (Philippines): Borno (estado)
- Waray (Philippines): Borno
- Welsh: Borno
- Western Mari: Борно
- Yoruba: Borno State
- Yoruba: Ipinle Borno
- Yoruba: Ìpínlẹ̀ Borno
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page Borno State. Photo: Jigamen, CC BY-SA 4.0.