1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Nigeria
Compare this sourced profile of Ilorin, 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 Ilorin—1,080,000, 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 Ilorin is GeoNames ID 2337639. Its recorded administrative path is Ilorin East → Kwara State → Nigeria, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Ilorin 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, Ilorin ranks 498 by recorded population. Inside the 30 selected Nigeria entries it ranks 11; inside the 243 entries in its broad region it ranks 102. Its 1,080,000 population value is 1.16 times the 930,000 median for the country cohort and 1.20 times the 902,588 regional median. Ilorin sits in the second quarter of this atlas's Nigeria population cohort. Ilorin'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.
Ilorin's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Osogbo at 80.7 km with 645,000 recorded people; Oyo at 98.062 km with 736,072 recorded people; Ile Ife at 112.796 km with 560,000 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 32.096 km. Compared with Osogbo, Ilorin's recorded population is 1.67 times as large. Against Ilorin, Osogbo follows Osogbo → Osun 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 Ilorin's. Against Ilorin, Oyo follows Oyo 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 second-order administrative seat rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Ilorin's. Against Ilorin, Ile Ife follows Ife Central → Osun 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 second-order administrative seat rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Ilorin's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 615 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Ilorin'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 2337639, the coordinate pair 8.4966 / 4.5421, country rank 11 of 30, and neighbor GeoNames 2325590 at 80.7 km bind Ilorin to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Ilorin's reference point is 8.4966° north and 4.5421° 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. Ilorin's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Ilorin's point falls in the near-equatorial coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Ilorin's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Ilorin, 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
Ilorin's closest other entries in this atlas are Osogbo (80.7 km), Oyo (98.062 km), Ile Ife (112.796 km).
04Verify before you book
Before visiting Ilorin, confirm changing decisions with current first-party sources:
Read how City Atlas Club verifies changing travel facts →05Sources and freshness
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.