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ABUJA (Settlement) Western African , Hausa , Igbo , Yoruba , Afrikaans , Arabic , Armenian , Bosnian , Croatian , Czech , Danish , Dutch , English , Estonian , Finnish , French , Georgian , German , Hindi , Hungarian , Icelandic , Indonesian , Italian , Japanese , Korean , Malay , Mongolian , Norwegian , Persian , Portuguese , Romanian , Slovak , Slovene , Swedish , Tagalog , Tajik , Turkish , Urdu 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... [
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KAIRO (Settlement) Basque , Bosnian , Bulgarian , Croatian , Danish , Estonian , Finnish , Georgian , German , Greek , Hausa , Indonesian , Japanese , Korean , Macedonian , Norwegian , Serbian , Slovene , Swedish Form of
CAIRO .
LAGOS (Political Subdivision & Settlement) Western African , Hausa , Igbo , Afrikaans , Albanian , Armenian , Bosnian , Bulgarian , Croatian , Czech , Danish , Dutch , English , Estonian , Finnish , French , German , Hungarian , Icelandic , Indonesian , Italian , Kazakh , Kurdish , Kyrgyz , Macedonian , Malay , Norwegian , Polish , Portuguese , Romanian , Russian , Slovak , Slovene , Spanish , Swedish , Tagalog , Tajik , Turkish , Turkmen , Uzbek From Portuguese
lagos meaning "lakes". This is the name of a city in Nigeria as well as a state of the same name.
LIBYA (Country) Northern African , Berber , English , Faroese , Finnish , Hausa , Indonesian , Malay , Norwegian , Swahili , Tagalog , Turkish From Arabic ليبيا
(Lībiyā) from Ancient Greek Λιβύη
(Libúē) , which is derived from
Libu , the name of an ancient Berber tribe (attested as
rbw in Egyptian)... [
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