Kano
Kano is a city in North West Nigeria and the capital of Kano State. It has a population of around 3.6 million, giving it a busy atmosphere. It is an ancient trading city inhabited for well over a thousand years.Photo: shirazc, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Notable Places in the Area
Sani Abacha Stadium
The Sani Abacha Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Kano, Kano State, Nigeria.Gidan Makama Museum Kano
Photo: Sulemn, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Gidan Makama Museum Kano or Kano Museum is a museum in Kano, Nigeria.
Great Mosque of Kano
The Great Mosque of Kano is a general Jumaat mosque in Kano, the capital city of Kano State and the second most populous city in Nigeria.Kano
- Type: City with 2,400,000 residents
- Description: city in Nigeria
- Categories: big city, million city and locality
- Location: Shahuchi, Kano Municipal, Kano State, North West Nigeria, Nigeria, West Africa, Africa
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Latitude
11.9919° or 11° 59' 31" northLongitude
8.5304° or 8° 31' 49" eastPopulation
2,400,000Elevation
484 metres (1,588 feet)IATA airport code
KANUnited Nations Location Code
NG KANOpen Location Code
7F3CXGRJ+P4OpenStreetMap ID
node 501540880OpenStreetMap Feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
2335204Wikidata ID
Q182984Kano Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Afrikaans: Kano
- Albanian: Kano
- Arabic: Kano
- Arabic: كانو
- Armenian: Կանո (քաղաք)
- Armenian: Կանո
- Asturian: Kano
- Basque: Kano
- Belarusian: Кана
- Belarusian: Кано (Нігерыя)
- Belarusian: Кано
- Bengali: কানো
- Bulgarian: Кано
- Catalan: Kano
- Cebuano: Kano (kapital sa estado)
- Cebuano: Kano
- Chechen: Кано
- Chinese: 卡諾
- Chinese: 卡諾市
- Chinese: 卡诺
- Chinese: 卡诺市
- Croatian: Kano
- Czech: Kano
- Danish: Kano
- Dutch: Kano
- Egyptian Arabic: كانو
- Esperanto: Kano
- Estonian: Kano
- Finnish: Kano
- Finnish: Kanō
- French: Kano
- Fulah: Kano
- Galician: Kano
- Georgian: კანო
- German: Kano
- Greek: Κάνο
- Gujarati: કાનો
- Hausa: Jalla Babbar Hausa
- Hausa: Kano
- Hausa: Kano ta Dabo tunbin Giwa
- Hausa: Koda me kazo anfika
- Hebrew: קנו (עיר)
- Hebrew: קנו
- Hindi: कऩो
- Hindi: कानो
- Hindi: कानौ
- Hungarian: Kano
- Icelandic: Kano
- Igbo: Kano
- Indonesian: Kano
- Interlingue: Kano
- Irish: Kano
- Italian: Kano
- Japanese: カノ
- Kannada: ಕನೋ
- Kannada: ಕ್ಯಾನೊ
- Kirghiz: Кано
- Korean: 카노
- Latin: Canos
- Latvian: Kano
- Lithuanian: Kanas
- Lithuanian: Kano
- Macedonian: Кано
- Malagasy: Kano
- Malay: Kano
- Marathi: कानो
- Northern Frisian: Kano
- Norwegian: Kano
- Norwegian Bokmål: Kano
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Byen Kano
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Kano
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Kano i Nigeria
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Kanoriket
- Occitan (post 1500): Kano
- Ossetian: Кано (сахар)
- Ossetian: Кано
- Panjabi: ਕਾਨੋ
- Persian: کانو، نیجریه
- Polish: Kano
- Portuguese: Cano
- Portuguese: Kano
- Romanian: Kano, Nigeria
- Romanian: Kano
- Russian: Кано
- Scots: Kano
- Serbian: Kano
- Serbian: Кано
- Shona: Kano
- Sinhala: කානෝ
- Slovenian: Kano
- South Azerbaijani: کانو، نیجریه
- Spanish: Kano
- Swahili: Kano
- Swedish: Kano
- Tagalog: Kano
- Tajik: Кано
- Tamil: கனோ
- Telugu: కానో
- Thai: คาโน
- Turkish: Kano, Nijerya
- Turkish: Kano
- Tyap: Ka̱na̱u
- Ukrainian: Кано
- Urdu: کانو
- Uzbek: Kano
- Venetian: Kano
- Veps: Kano
- Vietnamese: Kano
- Waray (Philippines): Kano
- Welsh: Kano
- Wu Chinese: 卡诺
- Yoruba: Kano
- Yoruba: Kánò
Other Places Named Kano
In the Area
- Dirimin IyaNeighbourhood
- Dan AgundiSuburb
- Gidan Sarkin KanoNeighbourhood
- ZangoSuburb
- Fagge ASuburb
- Tudun WazurchiSuburb
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