Dambatta
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Danbatta (or Dambatta or Dambarta) is a Local Government Area in Kano State, Nigeria. It is located about 49 miles north of Kano city at the Northern border of Kano state with Jigawa state. It has headquarters at Danbatta town, located on the A2 highway.
Key facts
- Settlement.official_name
- Danbatta
- Settlement.other_name
- Dambarta
- Settlement.native_name
- Dan-batta
- Settlement.nickname
- Garin Jayau
- Settlement.settlement_type
- LGA and town
- Settlement.motto
- Batta ka dawo
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Nigeria
- Settlement.pushpin_mapsize
- 250
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location in Nigeria
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- State
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Kano State
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Northern Nigeria
- Settlement.government_type
- Multi-party democracy
- Settlement.leader_title
- Honourable Chairman.
- Settlement.leader_name
- Muhammad Abdullahi Wango
- Settlement.established_date
- 1979
- Settlement.unit_pref
- Metric
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Danbatta (or Dambatta or Dambarta) is a Local Government Area in Kano State, Nigeria. It is located about 49 miles north of Kano city at the Northern border of Kano state with Jigawa state. It has headquarters at Danbatta town, located on the A2 highway.
It has an approximate area of 732 km and a population of 207,968 at the 2006 census. It is bordered to the north and east by Kazaure and Babura Local Government areas of Jigawa State respectively, and to the south and west by Minjibir and Makoda local Government areas of Kano state respectively.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Dambatta” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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