1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Nigeria
Compare this sourced profile of Ile Ife, 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 Ile Ife—560,000, 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: an ancient Yoruba city in south-western Nigeria founded sometime between the years 1000 BC and 500 BC.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Ile Ife is GeoNames ID 2338900. Its recorded administrative path is Ife Central → Osun State → Nigeria, and GeoNames classifies the place as a second-order administrative seat. Ile-Ife 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 2024-01-18; 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, Ile Ife ranks 993 by recorded population. Inside the 30 selected Nigeria entries it ranks 24; inside the 243 entries in its broad region it ranks 205. Its 560,000 population value is 0.60 times the 930,000 median for the country cohort and 0.62 times the 902,588 regional median. Ile Ife sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected Nigeria entries. Ile Ife'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.
Ile Ife's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Osogbo at 32.097 km with 645,000 recorded people; Ibadan at 73.092 km with 3,649,000 recorded people; Akure at 74.316 km with 730,000 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 42.219 km. Compared with Osogbo, Ile Ife's recorded population is 0.87 times as large. Against Ile Ife, 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 first-order administrative seat rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Ile Ife's. Against Ile Ife, Ibadan follows Ibadan North West → Oyo 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 first-order administrative seat rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Ile Ife's. Against Ile Ife, Akure follows Akure South → Ondo 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 first-order administrative seat rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Ile Ife's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 331 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Ile Ife'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 2338900, the coordinate pair 7.4824 / 4.5603, country rank 24 of 30, and neighbor GeoNames 2325590 at 32.097 km bind Ile Ife to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Ile Ife's reference point is 7.4824° north and 4.5603° east. The IANA identifier Africa/Lagos is shared by 30 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA2 is shared by 341 rows. Ile Ife's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Ile Ife's point falls in the near-equatorial coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Ile Ife's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Ile Ife, 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
Ile Ife's closest other entries in this atlas are Osogbo (32.097 km), Ibadan (73.092 km), Akure (74.316 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2024-01-18; 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.