The walled birni
The historic core of Zazzau, where compounds sit close together and the lanes curve and split. The line of the old walls can still be traced around its edge.
Tabula geographica minimalis · Nigeria
11.1113° N / 7.7227° E
An old walled city, a colonial grid and a vast university campus, set apart from one another across the northern Nigerian savanna.





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From above, Zaria looks less like one city than several. The old walled town sits to the south, a dense mass of lanes and compounds inside the remains of its earthen walls. Across open ground to the north lie the straighter streets built around the railway in the colonial era. The spaces in between are still easy to see on the map.
Zaria was the seat of the Hausa kingdom of Zazzau, and its history is tied to Queen Amina, the ruler remembered in local tradition for building defensive walls. The emir's palace still stands in the old city. Around it the streets bend and fork the way footpaths do, and they never settle into a pattern. In plan the old town reads as a fine, irregular texture.
To the north-west sits Ahmadu Bello University, one of the largest universities in Africa. Its main campus at Samaru spreads across open land in wide loops of road, with room between the buildings. A Zaria map poster shows all three layers side by side: the walled town, the railway districts and the campus, each with its own grain.
The historic core of Zazzau, where compounds sit close together and the lanes curve and split. The line of the old walls can still be traced around its edge.
North of the old city, the neighbourhoods laid out alongside the railway have straighter blocks and more regular crossings. On the map they read as a separate town.
Ahmadu Bello University's main campus is drawn in broad curving roads, with open ground between its faculties. It forms a looser pattern at the city's north-western edge.
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Cur Zaria
For graduates of Ahmadu Bello University and families with roots in the old city, Zaria is a place people come back to in memory. A clean black-and-white print keeps the old town and the campus in the same frame, just as they sit on the ground.
You can personalise the title, add a subtitle with a graduation year or family date, and edit the coordinates line. Choose from five styles, Classic black & white, Noir, Paper, Blueprint or Sand. The poster comes as a digital HD file or a printed poster.
Eme tabulam Zaria| Magnitudo impressionis | Resolutio | Fasciculi |
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| 30 × 40 cm (11.8 × 15.7″) | 3,543 × 4,724 px | PNG · PDF |
| 29.7 × 42 cm (A3, 11.7 × 16.5″) | 3,508 × 4,961 px | PNG · PDF |
| 42 × 59.4 cm (A2, 16.5 × 23.4″) | 4,961 × 7,016 px | PNG · PDF |
| 45.7 × 61 cm (18 × 24″) | 5,400 × 7,200 px | PNG · PDF |
| 50 × 70 cm (19.7 × 27.6″) | 5,906 × 8,268 px | PNG · PDF |
| 61 × 91.4 cm (24 × 36″) | 7,200 × 10,800 px | PNG · PDF |
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