Abuja

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Abuja

  • /əˈbuːd͡ʒə/

Rhymes with -uːdʒə

proper noun

  1. The capital city of Nigeria; lying in the Federal Capital Territory in the North Central geopolitical zone. Abuja, Nigeria’s capital city, rises out of the Sahel like a modernist apparition. The avenues are clean and broad, and the government buildings are imposing, with that soulless and vaguely fascistic air common to capital cities from Washington, D.C., to Brasília.

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: abidjan, nigeria, muscat, north central, lagos, nasarawa, bauchi, lafia, zamfara, plateau, enugu, sokoto, jigawa, kano, abu dhabi, benue

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name The capital city of Nigeria

EspañolAbuya
한국어아부자 Abuja
日本語アブジャ Abuja
中文阿布賈 /阿布贾 Ābùjiǎ
हिन्दीअबुजा abujā
PortuguêsAbuja
ItalianoAbuja
ΕλληνικάΑμπούζα Ampoúza, Αμπούτζα Ampoútza
РусскийАбу́джа Abúdža
Tiếng ViệtA-bu-gia
العربيةأَبُوجَا ʔabūjā
עבריתאַבּוּגָ׳ה abúja

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@misc{abuja_2026,
  title = {Abuja},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/abuja},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}