Sokoto
Facts
13 properties- Part of
- North West[9]
- Coordinate location
- 🗺️ 13.062°, 5.234°
- Capital of
- Sokoto State[13]
- Area
- +145[15]
- Described by source
- Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, The New Student's Reference Work[11][12]
- Elevation above sea level
- +480[14]
- Located in the administrative territorial entity
- Sokoto State[2]
- Named after
- Sokoto River[6]
- Population
- +427760[10]
- VIAF cluster ID
- 123221214
- Library of Congress authority ID
- n85150710
- GND ID
- 4118710-6
- Image (Wikimedia Commons)
- Sokoto market 2006.jpg ↗
- BBC Things ID
- 5dfc27d2-4d5d-4129-a6fc-87ef8b131353
- Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
- place/Sokoto-Nigeria
- FactGrid item ID
- Günther XLIII, Prince of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen
- Freebase ID
- /m/02mtl6
- GNS Unique Feature ID
- -2026911
- GeoNames ID
- 2322911
- Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID
- sokoto-1
- Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID (former scheme)
- 0063281
Show all 28 identifiers +16
- Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID
- Sokoto_-_by_i_Nigeria
- Hrvatska enciklopedija ID
- 70481
- Museum-digital place ID
- 20330
- National Library of Israel J9U ID
- 987007567000805171
- Online PWN Encyclopedia ID
- 3977366
- OpenStreetMap node ID
- 501540904
- Quora topic ID
- Sokoto-Nigeria
- Related category
- Wikidata item
- SNARC ID
- Jack Angel
- TDV Encyclopedia of Islam ID
- sokoto
- Topic's main category
- Category:Sokoto
- Treccani's Dizionario di Storia ID
- sokoto
- UN/LOCODE
- NGSKO
- Who's on First ID
- 890432227
- WorldCat Entities ID
- E39PBJjH9PdY7qYK7tpjK6t3Qq
- Yale LUX ID
- place/ad33b802-78d2-4eaf-989e-eca6a874f4cb
People born here 9
People who died here 8
Contained subdivisions 3
← Capital 2
← Headquarters location 2
Belongs to 1
Capital of 1
Category of associated people 1
Continent 1
Country 1
FactGrid item ID 1
Has these parts 1
Languages spoken, written or signed 1
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Located in this place 1
Located in time zone 1
Named after 1
Part of 1
SNARC ID 1
Topic's main category 1
← Category contains 1
← Category's main topic 1
← Place served by transport hub 1
0 sources
Summary
Sokoto is a city[1].
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evidence “Operation FANSAN YAMMA was launched to dismantle terrorist and bandit networks across the North-west, with Sokoto, Zamfara and Katsina forests identified as major hideouts used for attacks and kidnappings.” thisdaylive.com · read source