1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Nigeria
Compare this sourced profile of Akure, 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 Akure—730,000, 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 of Ondo State in Nigeria.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Akure is GeoNames ID 2350841. Its recorded administrative path is Akure South → Ondo State → Nigeria, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Akure 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 2026-04-14; 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, Akure ranks 755 by recorded population. Inside the 30 selected Nigeria entries it ranks 19; inside the 243 entries in its broad region it ranks 157. Its 730,000 population value is 0.78 times the 930,000 median for the country cohort and 0.81 times the 902,588 regional median. Akure sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected Nigeria entries. Akure's recorded value stays within one quarter of the country-cohort median used here. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Akure's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Ile Ife at 74.316 km with 560,000 recorded people; Osogbo at 90.784 km with 645,000 recorded people; Benin City at 112.339 km with 1,782,000 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 38.023 km. Compared with Ile Ife, Akure's recorded population is 1.30 times as large. Against Akure, Ile Ife follows Ife Central → Osun 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 second-order administrative seat rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Akure's. Against Akure, Osogbo follows Osogbo → Osun 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 the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Akure's. Against Akure, Benin City follows Oredo → Edo State → Nigeria in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Nigeria cohort, uses the shared Africa/Lagos identifier, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above Akure's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 583 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Akure's nearest-coordinate gap sits in the second quarter 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 2350841, the coordinate pair 7.2526 / 5.1931, country rank 19 of 30, and neighbor GeoNames 2338900 at 74.316 km bind Akure to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Akure's reference point is 7.2526° north and 5.1931° east. The IANA identifier Africa/Lagos is shared by 30 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. Akure's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Akure's point falls in the near-equatorial coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Akure's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Akure, 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
Akure's closest other entries in this atlas are Ile Ife (74.316 km), Osogbo (90.784 km), Benin City (112.339 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2026-04-14; 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.