1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Nigeria
Compare this sourced profile of Abuja, Nigeria before planning. Stable fields identify the place; confirm current transport, access and opening details with official sources.
01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Abuja—2,690,000, Africa/Lagos, and source coordinates—from live travel claims. Those fields identify and compare the record; they do not prove current transport, accessibility, census totals, or a City Atlas Club visit.
Wikidata's localized description: capital city of Nigeria.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Abuja is GeoNames ID 2352778. Its recorded administrative path is Municipal Area Council → FCT → Nigeria, and GeoNames classifies the place as a capital of a political entity. Abuja occurs once as a primary city label in this atlas sample; the numeric ID remains the durable source key if names change. The city row itself was updated 2024-04-06; that date belongs to the source record, not to every transport or visitor detail in the real destination.
Within the fixed 1,206-record atlas, Abuja ranks 142 by recorded population. Inside the 30 selected Nigeria entries it ranks 4; inside the 243 entries in its broad region it ranks 27. Its 2,690,000 population value is 2.89 times the 930,000 median for the country cohort and 2.98 times the 902,588 regional median. Abuja falls between the leading tenth and quarter of this atlas's Nigeria population cohort. Abuja's recorded value reaches at least twice the country-cohort median in this snapshot. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Abuja's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Kaduna at 163.413 km with 1,850,000 recorded people; Jos at 181.238 km with 1,040,000 recorded people; Okene at 217.394 km with 479,178 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 53.981 km. Compared with Kaduna, Abuja's recorded population is 1.45 times as large. Against Abuja, Kaduna follows Kaduna North → Kaduna State → Nigeria in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Nigeria cohort, uses the shared Africa/Lagos identifier, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is below Abuja's. Against Abuja, Jos follows Jos North → Plateau State → Nigeria in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Nigeria cohort, uses the shared Africa/Lagos identifier, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is below Abuja's. Against Abuja, Okene follows Okene → Kogi State → Nigeria in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Nigeria cohort, uses the shared Africa/Lagos identifier, and carries second-order administrative seat rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is below Abuja's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 906 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Abuja's nearest-coordinate gap belongs to the wider half of atlas distances. This pattern can reveal whether other catalog references are geographically close, but it cannot establish whether a border crossing is possible or practical, or whether rail, road, fare, or journey-time connections exist. Read as one record signature, GeoNames 2352778, the coordinate pair 9.0579 / 7.4951, country rank 4 of 30, and neighbor GeoNames 2335727 at 163.413 km bind Abuja to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Abuja's reference point is 9.0579° north and 7.4951° east. The IANA identifier Africa/Lagos is shared by 30 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLC is shared by 129 rows. Abuja's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Abuja's point falls in the near-equatorial coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Abuja's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Abuja, so the profile preserves that missing value instead of guessing terrain. Together these fields form a reproducible identity check for this page, not a claim about walkability, climate or accessibility.
03Nearby atlas references
Abuja's closest other entries in this atlas are Kaduna (163.413 km), Jos (181.238 km), Okene (217.394 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2024-04-06; the atlas checked the dataset 2026-08-04. Available Wikidata fields were verified in the same run.
GeoNames data: CC BY 4.0. Wikidata labels and descriptions: CC0 1.0.