1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Nigeria
Compare this sourced profile of Calabar, 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 Calabar—540,000, 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: city in Nigeria.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Calabar is GeoNames ID 2346229. Its recorded administrative path is Calabar Municipal → Cross River State → Nigeria, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Calabar 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, Calabar ranks 1,040 by recorded population. Inside the 30 selected Nigeria entries it ranks 28; inside the 243 entries in its broad region it ranks 216. Its 540,000 population value is 0.58 times the 930,000 median for the country cohort and 0.60 times the 902,588 regional median. Calabar sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected Nigeria entries. Calabar'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.
Calabar's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Aba at 107.626 km with 1,160,000 recorded people; Port Harcourt at 146.926 km with 2,120,000 recorded people; Owerri at 154.681 km with 545,000 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 47.055 km. Compared with Aba, Calabar's recorded population is 0.47 times as large. Against Calabar, Aba follows Aba South → Abia 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 above Calabar's. Against Calabar, Port Harcourt follows Port-Harcourt → Rivers 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 Calabar's. Against Calabar, Owerri follows Owerri Municipal → Imo 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 Calabar's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 727 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Calabar'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 2346229, the coordinate pair 4.9589 / 8.3270, country rank 28 of 30, and neighbor GeoNames 2353151 at 107.626 km bind Calabar to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Calabar's reference point is 4.9589° north and 8.3270° 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. Calabar's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Calabar's point falls in the near-equatorial coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Calabar's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Calabar, 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
Calabar's closest other entries in this atlas are Aba (107.626 km), Port Harcourt (146.926 km), Owerri (154.681 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.