Maiduguri
Maiduguri, also known locally as Yerwa, is a city of 800,000 people in Northeastern Nigeria. It is the capital of the Borno State. Since 2009, it has been the heart of the Boko Haram insurgency.Maiduguri
- Type: City with 1,200,000 residents
- Description: capital and largest city of Borno State in north-eastern Nigeria
- Categories: big city and locality
- Location: Borno State, North East Nigeria, Nigeria, West Africa, Africa
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Latitude
11.8395° or 11° 50' 22" northLongitude
13.1536° or 13° 9' 13" eastPopulation
1,200,000Elevation
325 metres (1,066 feet)IATA airport code
MIUUnited Nations Location Code
NG MIUOpen Location Code
7F3MR5Q3+RCOpenStreetMap ID
node 27565111OpenStreetMap Feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
2331447Wikidata ID
Q221436Maiduguri Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Afrikaans: Maiduguri
- Arabic: Maiduguri
- Arabic: مايدوجوري
- Arabic: مايدوغوري
- Arabic: مايدوگورو
- Arabic: ميدغري
- Armenian: Մայդուգուրի
- Asturian: Maiduguri
- Azerbaijani: Maiduquri
- Azerbaijani: Mayduquri
- Bengali: মাইদুগুরি
- Bulgarian: Майдугури
- Catalan: Maiduguri
- Cebuano: Maiduguri (kapital sa estado)
- Cebuano: Maiduguri
- Chechen: Майдугури
- Chinese: Maiduguri
- Chinese: 迈杜古里
- Chinese: 邁杜古里
- Croatian: Maiduguri
- Croatian: Yerwa
- Czech: Maiduguri
- Danish: Maiduguri
- Dutch: Maiduguri
- Egyptian Arabic: ميدجرى
- English: Yerwa
- Esperanto: Maiduguri
- Estonian: Maiduguri
- Finnish: Maiduguri
- French: Maiduguri
- Fulah: Maiduguri
- Galician: Maiduguri
- Georgian: მაიდუგური
- German: Maiduguri
- Greek: Μαϊντούγκουρι
- Gujarati: મૈડુગુરી
- Hausa: Maiduguri
- Hausa: Yerwa
- Hebrew: מאידוגורי
- Hebrew: מידוגורי
- Hebrew: מיידוגורי
- Hindi: मॉड्यूगॉरी
- Hungarian: Maiduguri
- Igbo: Maiduguri
- Igbo: Yerwa
- Indonesian: Maiduguri
- Italian: Maiduguri
- Japanese: マイドゥグリ
- Kannada: ಮೈದುಗುರಿ
- Kanuri: Maiduguri
- Kanuri: Yerwa
- Korean: 마이두구리
- Latvian: Maiduguri
- Lithuanian: Maiduguri
- Lithuanian: Maiduguris
- Macedonian: Маидугури
- Macedonian: Мајдугури
- Malagasy: Maiduguri
- Malay: Maiduguri
- Marathi: मायदुगिरी
- Min Nan Chinese: Maiduguri
- Nigerian Pidgin: Maiduguri
- Nigerian Pidgin: Yerwa
- Northern Frisian: Maiduguri
- Norwegian: Maiduguri
- Norwegian Bokmål: Maiduguri
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Maiduguri
- Persian: مایدوگوری
- Polish: Maiduguri
- Portuguese: Maiduguri
- Romanian: Maiduguri
- Russian: Майдугури
- Scots: Maiduguri
- Sinhala: මෙයිඩුගුරි
- Slovenian: Maiduguri
- South Azerbaijani: مایدوقوری
- Spanish: Maiduguri
- Swahili: Maiduguri
- Swedish: Maiduguri
- Swedish: Yerwa
- Tagalog: Maiduguri
- Tamil: மெய்டுகுறி
- Telugu: మైదుగురి
- Thai: ไมดูกูรี
- Turkish: Maiduguri
- Tyap: Ma̱iduguri
- Tyap: Nduguli
- Ukrainian: Майдугурі
- Urdu: مایدوگوری
- Veps: Maiduguri
- Vietnamese: Maiduguri
- Waray (Philippines): Maiduguri
- Yoruba: Maiduguri
- Yoruba: Yerwa
- Yue Chinese: 邁杜古里
- Maidiguri
- Maidugari
Other Places Named Maiduguri
Localities in the Area
- DapchiSuburb
- FurmariNeighbourhood
- Dan KelluriSuburb
- TalbariNeighbourhood
- Fugu AshemiSuburb
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License. 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 Maiduguri. Photo: Jigamen, CC BY-SA 4.0.