Katsina is a city in northern Nigeria and the capital of Katsina State, serving as seat of the Katsina Local Government Area. It lies about 260 kilometers east of Sokoto and 135 kilometers northwest of Kano, near the border with Niger, and its 2016 population was estimated at 429,000. The city is the center of an agricultural region known for groundnuts, cotton, hides, millet and guinea corn, and it hosts mills that process peanut oil and steel; it was also historically a center for large-scale livestock farming of cattle, goats, sheep and chickens. Its population is largely Muslim, drawn mainly from the Hausa and Fulani ethnic groups.
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1. Wikidata: Katsina
- Wikidata Q937487, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)
Wikidata Q937487 P571, class allow-list match, knownqid pass (w-bbfill-geography5-0926)
P571 value year 1987
View the Source2. Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna): World Map of the Koeppen-Geiger Climate Classification, present climate data
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12.75 7.75 BSh
3. GeoNames: Katsina - GeoNames
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12.99082 7.60177 P PPLA NG 24 421 42103 670000 519 Africa/Lagos
Katsina (Wikipedia)
In Group: Cities of Western Africa (World), Wikipedia; part-of country and UN M49 subregionView the Source Katsina State (Wikipedia)
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Katsina
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