1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Nigeria
Compare this sourced profile of Benin City, 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 Benin City—1,782,000, 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 Edo State, Nigeria.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Benin City is GeoNames ID 2347283. Its recorded administrative path is Oredo → Edo State → Nigeria, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Benin City 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, Benin City ranks 244 by recorded population. Inside the 30 selected Nigeria entries it ranks 7; inside the 243 entries in its broad region it ranks 56. Its 1,782,000 population value is 1.92 times the 930,000 median for the country cohort and 1.97 times the 902,588 regional median. Benin City falls between the leading tenth and quarter of this atlas's Nigeria population cohort. Benin City's recorded value is above the country-cohort median but remains below twice that benchmark. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Benin City's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Warri at 92.296 km with 910,000 recorded people; Akure at 112.339 km with 730,000 recorded people; Onitsha at 129.914 km with 1,553,000 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 37.618 km. Compared with Warri, Benin City's recorded population is 1.96 times as large. Against Benin City, Warri follows Warri South → Delta → 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 second-order administrative seat rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Benin City's. Against Benin City, Akure follows Akure South → Ondo 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 Benin City's. Against Benin City, Onitsha follows Onitsha North → Anambra → 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 second-order administrative seat rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Benin City's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 661 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Benin City'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 2347283, the coordinate pair 6.3382 / 5.6258, country rank 7 of 30, and neighbor GeoNames 2319133 at 92.296 km bind Benin City to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Benin City's reference point is 6.3382° north and 5.6258° 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. Benin City's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Benin City's point falls in the near-equatorial coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Benin City's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Benin City, 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
Benin City's closest other entries in this atlas are Warri (92.296 km), Akure (112.339 km), Onitsha (129.914 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.