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Bauchi

Bauchi is a city in northeast Nigeria, the administrative center of Bauchi State, of the Bauchi Local Government Area within that State, and of the traditional Bauchi Emirate.

Bauchi
Bauchi · Wikimedia Commons (see file page)
The place

Bauchi is a city in northeast Nigeria, the administrative center of Bauchi State, of the Bauchi Local Government Area within that State, and of the traditional Bauchi Emirate. It is located on the northern edge of the Jos Plateau, at an elevation of 616 metres. The Local Government Area covers an area of 3,687 km2 and had a population of 493,810 in 2006.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Bauchi

4 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Roman Catholic Diocese of Bauchi

    The Diocese of Bauchi ) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in Northern Nigeria. It is a suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Jos in, yet depends on the missionary Roman Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples.

    0 m · diocese of the Catholic Church · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Abubarkar Tafawa Balewa Stadium

    Abubakar Tafawa Balewa Stadium is a multi-use stadium in Bauchi, Nigeria. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of the Wikki Tourists.

    1.1 km · football stadium in Bauchi State Nigeria · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University

    Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University is a federal university of technology located in Bauchi, north eastern part of Nigeria. The university is named after Nigeria's first and only prime minister, Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa.

    1.6 km · public university in Nigeria · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University Library

    The Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University library was established in August 1981 and it currently supplies 71,415 books, references, journals and dissertation to staffs and students of Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University.

    6 km · academic Library of Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University in Nigeria · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Bauchi

Airports
Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa Bauchi State (BCU), 22 km · Mallam Aminu Kano (KAN), 240 km · Kaduna (KAD), 279 km
Stations
Bauchi Airport, 3.8 km
  • Kano → Bauchi
    237 km · quickest by road, 5h · ₦16,400–21,850
  • Kaduna → Bauchi
    264 km · quickest by road, 5h 49m · ₦21,700–28,950
  • Abuja → Bauchi
    293 km · quickest by road, 5h 54m · ₦22,100–29,450
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Bauchi

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Bauchi. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    PríncipeST

    7 ways of moving, 13 sources

    1,004 km
  2. 02
    Bwindi Impenetrable National ParkUG

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

    2,536 km
  3. 03
    Merzouga and Erg ChebbiMA

    8 ways of moving, 41 sources

    2,717 km
  4. 04
    EntebbeUG

    9 ways of moving, 37 sources

    2,749 km
  5. 05
    Ssese IslandsUG

    11 ways of moving, 14 sources

    2,751 km

If you know how people move in Bauchi – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Bauchi

  • Inkilvillage in Bauchi State, Nigeria5.4 km