Maiduguri

Maiduguri is the capital of Borno State, Nigeria. Its population was just over one million in 2009.¹. Among the buildings are the El Kanemi Stadium, used for soccer. The majority speak Central Kanuri² and are Moslems.

photo of truck with 'there is no king but allah' in Hausa

Historical Maps

Footnotes

(1) world-gazetteer.com, accessed 12/19/2009
(2) Nigeria map 4 in Raymond G. Gordon, Jr., ed., Ethnologue Languages of the World, 15th ed. (SIL International, 2005).