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Kano is the administrative center of the Kano State and the third largest city in Nigeria, in terms of geographical size, after Ibadan and Lagos. In population, it is the second most populous city (with a population of 3,848,885) in the country after Lagos. The city's traditional ruler is the Emir of Kano, and the current Emir, Ado Bayero, has been on the throne since 1963.

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Foundation and Hausa rule
Image:Kano-engraving.jpg|left|thumb|1850 steel engraving of Kano
In the seventh century, Dalla Hill, a hill in Kano, was the site of a group of a community that engaged in iron-working; it is unknown whether these were Hausa people or speakers of Niger-Congo languages.<ref>{{cite book |last=Iliffe |first= John |page=75 |title= Africans: The History of a Continent |year=2007 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn= 0521864380</ref> Kano was originally known as Dalla, after the hill, and was referred to as such as late as the end of the fifteenth century and the beginning of the sixteenth by Bornu Empire|Bornoan sources.<ref>{{cite book |last= Nast|first=Heidi J |authorlink= |coauthors= |title= Concubines and Power: Five Hundred Years in a Northern Nigerian Palace |year=2005 |publisher= University of Minnesota Press |location= |isbn= 0816641544 |page=60</ref> The Kano Chronicle identifies Barbushe, a pr

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