1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Nigeria
Compare this sourced profile of Bauchi, 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 Bauchi—693,700, 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: city and local government area of Bauchi State, Nigeria.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Bauchi is GeoNames ID 2347470. Its recorded administrative path is Bauchi → Nigeria, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Bauchi 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, Bauchi ranks 792 by recorded population. Inside the 30 selected Nigeria entries it ranks 20; inside the 243 entries in its broad region it ranks 165. Its 693,700 population value is 0.75 times the 930,000 median for the country cohort and 0.77 times the 902,588 regional median. Bauchi sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected Nigeria entries. Bauchi's recorded value is materially below the country-cohort median used here. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Bauchi's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Jos at 112.503 km with 1,040,000 recorded people; Gombe at 144.803 km with 560,000 recorded people; Kano at 237.205 km with 4,910,000 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 124.702 km. Compared with Jos, Bauchi's recorded population is 0.67 times as large. Against Bauchi, Jos follows Jos North → Plateau 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 the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above Bauchi's. Against Bauchi, Gombe follows Gombe → Gombe 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 below Bauchi's. Against Bauchi, Kano follows Kano Municipal → Kano 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 above Bauchi's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 743 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Bauchi'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 2347470, the coordinate pair 10.3103 / 9.8439, country rank 20 of 30, and neighbor GeoNames 2335953 at 112.503 km bind Bauchi to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Bauchi's reference point is 10.3103° north and 9.8439° 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. Bauchi's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Bauchi's point falls in the near-equatorial coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Bauchi's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Bauchi, 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
Bauchi's closest other entries in this atlas are Jos (112.503 km), Gombe (144.803 km), Kano (237.205 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.