Yenagoa is a Local Government Area and the capital of Bayelsa State in Nigeria's Niger Delta region, with an estimated 2024 population of 798,466. The Ijaw people form the majority of its residents, and the city is home to Bayelsa International Airport, which received its first flight in February 2019, and to the Bayelsa United and Bayelsa Queens football clubs. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Founding Year Climate Zone Sources
1. Yenagoa (Wikidata)
P1082 (population)Quote, P1082 (population)
population 352,285
2. Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna): World Map of the Koeppen-Geiger Climate Classification, present climate data
Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna)Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 4.75, 6.25Quote, Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 4.75, 6.25
4.75 6.25 Am
3. GeoNames: Yenagoa - GeoNames
GeoNamescities500 record 2318123, place matched by name within the country (only place of that name in the country)Quote, cities500 record 2318123, place matched by name within the country (only place of that name in the country)
4.92675 6.26764 P PPLA NG 52 6008 365000 8 Africa/Lagos
Yenagoa (Wikipedia)
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Yenagoa () is a Local Government Area and capital city of Bayelsa State, Southern Nigeria.
- In Group: Cities of Western Africa (World), Wikipedia; part-of country and UN M49 subregion
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