Kafanchan
Sign in to saveKafanchan (; Nikyob: Manɡyanɡ) is a town located in the southern part of Kaduna State, Nigeria. The town owes much of its development to the railway development in the area. The railway is situated at a particular junction of the Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) station built in 1927. It sits on the railtrack connecting Port Harcourt, Enugu, Kafanchan, Kuru, Bauchi and finally Maiduguri. As of 2007, Kafanchan had an estimated population of 83,092.
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Place details
- Locality
- Kafanchan A
- Region
- Kaduna
- Country
- Nigeria
- Population
- 79,522
- Timezone
- Africa/Lagos
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Key facts
- Settlement.image_caption
- Clockwise from top: An aerial view of Kafanchan • Kafanchan Junction Train Station to Jos • Resting place of Agwam Fantswam I Musa Didam at Zikpak • Throneroom's Salama Radio tower at the background of the Mada River flowing westwards • A bust of Governor Patrick Yakowa at the middle of the NEPA roundabout
- Settlement.official_name
- Kafanchan
- Settlement.native_name
- Fantswam, A̱byin Fantswam
- Settlement.nickname
- Kaf City
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Town and LGA Headquarters
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Nigeria#Africa
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- right
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location of Kafanchan within Nigeria
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- State
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Kaduna State
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human settlement
- Country
- Nigeria
- Located in
- Jema'a
- Continent
- Africa
- Population
- +83092
- Elevation
- +739
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00
- Head of state
- Josiah Tagwai Kantiyok
- Location
- Kaduna State
- Image
- An Overview of Kafanchan 01.jpg
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Article
28 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- History
- Geography
- Landscape
- Climate
- Language
- Counting in Fantswam
- Common Expressions in Fantswam
- Culture
- Beliefs
- Fantswam traditional institution
- Traditional stools
- Infrastructure
- Transportation
- Railway
- Air
- Roads
- Sports
- Education
- Economy
- Commerce
- Train services
- Hospitality and tourism
- Politics
- Notable people
- See also
- References
- External links
Kafanchan (; Nikyob: Manɡyanɡ) is a town located in the southern part of Kaduna State, Nigeria. The town owes much of its development to the railway development in the area. The railway is situated at a particular junction of the Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) station built in 1927. It sits on the railtrack connecting Port Harcourt, Enugu, Kafanchan, Kuru, Bauchi and finally Maiduguri. As of 2007, Kafanchan had an estimated population of 83,092.
==Etymology== James (2000) asserted that the indigenous inhabitants of the Kafanchan town and environs, the Fantswam people (who speak a dialect of Tyap), usually add the prefix kwa to all names of peoples and places, hence, the phrase, "kwa Fantswam". However, the Hausa immigrant elements who interacted with them found it more convenient to pronounce the phrase, kwa-Fantswam as Kafanchan.