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Town · Nigeria · Gombe State

# Deba

Go there

## Getting to Deba

**Airports:** Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa Bauchi State (BCU), 182 km · Garoua (GOU), 238 km · Maiduguri (MIU), 260 km\

- Bauchi → Deba 169 km · quickest by road, 2h 54m · ₦10,150–13,550 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/bauchi-to-deba) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Bauchi&to=Deba)
- Maiduguri → Deba 265 km · quickest by road, 5h 6m · ₦17,150–22,850 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/maiduguri-to-deba) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Maiduguri&to=Deba)
- Kano → Deba 371 km · quickest by road, 7h 46m · ₦23,500–31,300 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/kano-to-deba) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Kano&to=Deba)
- From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Deba)

Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

## No local-transport research exists yet for Deba

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 Deba. 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. [Príncipe](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/principe) ST 7 ways of moving, 13 sources 1,052 km
2. [Bwindi Impenetrable National Park](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/bwindi) UG 8 ways of moving, 27 sources 2,384 km
3. [Entebbe](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/entebbe) UG 9 ways of moving, 38 sources 2,590 km
4. [Ssese Islands](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/ssese-islands) UG 11 ways of moving, 16 sources 2,594 km
5. [Merzouga and Erg Chebbi](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/merzouga) MA 8 ways of moving, 41 sources 2,814 km

If you know how people move in Deba – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Cdeba&title=Deba&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Fdeba), and the note gets an entry.

Around it

## Next door to Deba

Deba is 26 km from [Gombe](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/gombe), the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

[The place page for Deba](https://www.mixroutes.com/places/deba) [All the notes](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes) [Every note on Nigeria](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes#c-NG)


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