{
 "id": "place/kano",
 "class": "place",
 "slug": "kano",
 "label": {
  "ar": "كانو",
  "en": "Kano"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "مدينة في شمال نيجيريا، من أقدم مراكز الإسلام في بلاد الهوسا.",
  "en": "A city in northern Nigeria, among the oldest centres of Islam in the Hausa lands."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "place"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "west-africa-sahel"
 ],
 "periods": [],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [],
 "coordinates": [
  12.0001,
  8.5167
 ],
 "data": {
  "kind": "city",
  "coordinates": [
   12.0001,
   8.5167
  ],
  "coordinate_precision": "site",
  "external_ids": {
   "geonames": "2335204"
  },
  "sources": [
   "source/geonames-gazetteer"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 1,
   "generated_by": "Claude Sonnet 5.5; coordinates from GeoNames; Arabic summary to be checked against reference works"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "كانو مدينة في شمال نيجيريا، وهي من أقدم مراكز الإسلام في بلاد الهوسا. {cite:geonames-gazetteer}\n\nيحتاج إلى مصدر إضافي: ملخص هذه الصفحة بحاجة إلى مطابقة مع مراجع تاريخية."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "place/kano",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-16"
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "Kano is a city in northern Nigeria, and one of the oldest centres of Islam in the land of the Hausa. {cite:geonames-gazetteer}\n\nAn additional source is needed: this summary has to be matched against historical references."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "place/kano",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-16"
  },
  "ur": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "کانو شمالی نائجیریا کا ایک شہر ہے، اور ہوسا کے علاقوں میں اسلام کے قدیم ترین مراکز میں سے ہے۔ {cite:geonames-gazetteer}\n\nمزید ماخذ درکار ہے: اس صفحے کے خلاصے کو تاریخی مراجع سے ملانے کی ضرورت ہے۔"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "place/kano",
    "lang": "ur",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-19"
  }
 },
 "degree": 10,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "updated": "2026-10-12",
 "connections": [
  {
   "to": "person/aminu-ibrahim-daurawa",
   "type": "birthplace_of",
   "inverse": true,
   "sources": [
    "source/wikipedia-daurawa-en",
    "source/wikipedia-daurawa-ha",
    "source/wikidata-daurawa"
   ]
  },
  {
   "to": "person/jaafar-mahmud-adam",
   "type": "death_place_of",
   "inverse": true,
   "sources": [
    "source/wikipedia-jaafar-mahmud-adam-en",
    "source/wikipedia-jaafar-mahmud-adam-ar"
   ]
  },
  {
   "to": "person/murtala-muhammed",
   "type": "birthplace_of",
   "inverse": true,
   "sources": [
    "source/wikipedia-murtala-muhammed-en",
    "source/wikipedia-murtala-muhammed-ar",
    "source/wikidata-murtala-muhammed"
   ]
  },
  {
   "to": "person/sani-abacha",
   "type": "birthplace_of",
   "inverse": true,
   "sources": [
    "source/wikipedia-sani-abacha-en",
    "source/wikidata-sani-abacha"
   ]
  },
  {
   "to": "person/sanusi-lamido-sanusi",
   "type": "birthplace_of",
   "inverse": true,
   "sources": [
    "source/wikipedia-sanusi-lamido-sanusi-en"
   ]
  }
 ],
 "related": [
  "person/abdulsalami-abubakar",
  "person/aminu-ibrahim-daurawa",
  "person/jaafar-mahmud-adam",
  "person/murtala-muhammed",
  "person/sani-abacha",
  "person/sanusi-lamido-sanusi"
 ],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}