Nigeria
Kano, likewise called Kano City, city, capital of Kano state, northern Nigeria, situated on the Jakara River. It was customarily established by Kano, a metalworker of the Gaya clan who in antiquated occasions came to Dalla Hill in the region looking for iron. The disclosure of stone apparatuses demonstrates ancient settlement of the site, which was chosen for the capital of the Hausa province of Kano in the rule (1095–1134) of King Gajemasu (Gijimasu). Development on the renowned city divider started during his reign and proceeded in the next hundreds of years. The divider has in excess of twelve entryways and is around 12 miles (20 km) long, 40 feet (12 meters) wide at the base, and 30 to 50 feet high.
Inside the old walled territory along the Jakara River is the focal Kurmi Market, a fundamental troop end. After the Fulani jihad (sacred war; 1804–08), Kano was picked to be the capital of an emirate focused on the city. Its market, effectively significant in the district, turned into the central emporium of the western Sudan savanna and desert territory reaching out from the Atlantic Ocean to the Nile River. Cowrie shells were utilized as the central mechanism of trade. As an end-result of Hausa leatherwork, material, and metalwares, Kano got kola nuts from Ghana; salt from the Sahara; slaves from the Bauchi and Adamawa emirates; natron from Lake Chad; and blade sharp edges, weaponry, silk, flavors, and fragrances by the trans-Saharan camel processions. The city's catch by the British in 1903 and the launch of the railroad from Lagos (715 miles southeast) in 1912 altered the course of exchange south to the Gulf of Guinea.
Present day Kano is a significant business and modern focus. Peanuts (groundnuts), a nearby resource crop, are a prime item. The second most significant customary fare is stows away and skins. There is an extensive domesticated animals exchange. Pigs, raised on neighborhood ranches oversaw by non-Muslims, are delivered to Lagos. Eggs likewise are provided to different pieces of Nigeria. Conventional businesses incorporate calfskin tanning and enhancement, tangle making, metalworking, fitting, and ceramics fabricate. Neighborhood color pits for fabric and cowhide have been utilized for quite a long time.
A significant part of the city's business is focused in modern domains, for example, the ones at Bompai, Chawalla, and Sharada. The city's food items incorporate prepared merchandise and pasta, handled meat, squashed bone, canned food, peanuts, nut and vegetable oils, and sodas. Light makes incorporate materials, weave textures, tents, sheet material, froth elastic items, dress, beautifiers, drugs, cleanser, candles, finishes, plastics, cowhide merchandise, metal and wood furniture, clinic and office hardware, holders and pressing cases, wire items, tiles, and enamelware. The hefty ventures fabricate asbestos, concrete, solid squares, metal auxiliary items, bikes, vehicles, trucks, and synthetic substances. There is likewise a steel-moving plant and a printing plant.
Dalla Hill (1,753 feet [534 metres]) and Goron Dutse Hill (1,697 feet [517 metres]) overwhelm the old city, which has marsh pools and obtain pits, wellspring of the mud for building its square, level roofed houses. The populace is generally Hausa, primarily Kano (Kanawa), yet in addition incorporates the Abagagyawa, who guarantee plunge from Kano's unique occupants, and Fulani. The most established structure is the fifteenth century Gidan Rumfa (presently the emir's castle), close to which is the focal mosque (1951). Likewise confronting Emir's Square is the Makama's House, among Kano's most seasoned structures and lodging an exhibition hall of Hausa and Fulani antiquities.
Other than the old walled region (perceived as Kano city in 1961) and Bompai, Kano has four different regions: the Fagge, possessed by individuals from different pieces of Nigeria just as different nations; the Sabon Gari, lodging travelers from the south and east; the Syrian Quarter; and the Nassarawa, site of present day government structures and elite European and African living arrangements.
Kano is the seat of Bayero University (1977), an Arabic graduate school, a few instructor preparing foundations, a state polytechnic school, and a horticultural examination establishment. Kano State Library is situated in the city. Kano is served by the railroad network among Nguru and Lagos and Port Harcourt; it is likewise an intersection for thruways crossing Kano state. There is a worldwide air terminal in the city. Pop. (2005 est.) 2,993,000; (2016 est.) 4,155,000.
