Nigerian Submitted Place Names

Nigerian names are used in the country of Nigeria in western Africa.
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Submitted names are contributed by users of this website. The accuracy of these name definitions cannot be guaranteed.
Àbújá (Settlement) Western African, Yoruba
Yoruba form of Abuja.
Abuja (Settlement) Western African, Hausa, Igbo, Yoruba, English
From Abu-Ja, a nickname of 19th-century monarch Abubakar Jatau (sometimes referred to as "Abu"), who founded what is now the city of Abuja in 1828. By some accounts, he was described as having fair skin, which possibly earned him the nickname Ja meaning "red" in Hausa... [more]
Afirka (Region) Western African, Hausa
Hausa form of Africa.
Àjàṣẹ́ (Settlement) Yoruba
Yoruba form of Porto-Novo.
Aljeriya (Country) Bengali, Hausa
Bengali and Hausa form of Algeria.
Amurka (Country & Region) Hausa
Hausa form of America.
Austriya (Country) Indigenous American, Aymara, Western African, Hausa
Aymara and Hausa form of Austria.
Austriya (Country) Aymara, Hausa, Kazakh
Aymara, Hausa and Kazakh form of Austria.
Bùrúndì (Country) Western African, Yoruba
Yoruba form of Burundi.
Filipin (Country) Western African, Hausa, Persian
Hausa and Persian form of Philippines.
Ìjíptì (Country) Western African, Yoruba
Yoruba form of Egypt.
Indonesiya (Country) Western African, Hausa
Hausa form of Indonesia.
Kamaru (Country) Hausa
Hausa form of Cameroon.
Komoros (Country) Bengali, Hindi, Maltese, Eastern African, Hausa
Bengali, Hindi, Maltese, and Hausa form of Comoros.
Kroatíà (Country) Yoruba
Yoruba form of Croatia.
Laberiya (Country) Hausa
Hausa form of Liberia.
Lagos (Political Subdivision & Settlement) Western African, Hausa, Igbo, English
From Portuguese lagos meaning "lakes". This is the name of a city in Nigeria as well as a state of the same name.
Madagásíkà (Country & Island) Western African, Yoruba
Yoruba form of Madagascar.
Màláwì (Country) Western African, Yoruba
Yoruba form of Malawi.
Masar (Country) Hausa, Somali
Hausa and Somali form of Misr.
Misra (Country) Hausa
Hausa form of Misr.
Mòrókò (Country) Western African, Yoruba
Yoruba form of Morocco.
Muritaniya (Country) Arabic, Hausa
Arabic and Hausa form of Mauritania.
Nàìjíríà (Country) Western African, Yoruba
Yoruba form of Nigeria.
Naijiria (Country) Western African, Igbo, Yoruba
Igbo form of Nigeria as well as a Yoruba variant of Nàìjíríà.
Najeriya (Country) Western African, Hausa
Variant of Nijeriya.
Nanka (Settlement) Igbo
Nijeriya (Country) Western African, Hausa
Hausa form of Nigeria.
Saro (Country) Yoruba
Yoruba form of Sierra Leone
Somaliya (Country) Amharic, Bengali, Bulgarian, Hausa, Hindi, Urdu
Form of Bulgaria used in various languages.
Yaoundé (Settlement) English, Catalan, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Welsh, Yoruba
From the outpost of Jaundo, founded between 1887 and 1889 by German explorers Lt. Richard Kund and Hans Tappenbeck and named so after the local Ewondo people, also known as Yaunde. The name could also have been a German rendition of the Ewondo expression mia wondo ("peanut farmers")... [more]