1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Nigeria
Compare this sourced profile of Kaduna, 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 Kaduna—1,850,000, 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: state capital of Kaduna State in Nigeria.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Kaduna is GeoNames ID 2335727. Its recorded administrative path is Kaduna North → Kaduna State → Nigeria, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Kaduna 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, Kaduna ranks 228 by recorded population. Inside the 30 selected Nigeria entries it ranks 6; inside the 243 entries in its broad region it ranks 50. Its 1,850,000 population value is 1.99 times the 930,000 median for the country cohort and 2.05 times the 902,588 regional median. Kaduna falls between the leading tenth and quarter of this atlas's Nigeria population cohort. Kaduna'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.
Kaduna's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Zaria at 72.049 km with 980,000 recorded people; Abuja at 163.413 km with 2,690,000 recorded people; Jos at 172.372 km with 1,040,000 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 100.323 km. Compared with Zaria, Kaduna's recorded population is 1.89 times as large. Against Kaduna, Zaria follows Sabon Gari → Kaduna State → Nigeria in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Nigeria cohort, uses the shared Africa/Lagos identifier, and carries populated place rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Kaduna's. Against Kaduna, Abuja follows Municipal Area Council → FCT → 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 capital of a political entity rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Kaduna's. Against Kaduna, Jos follows Jos North → Plateau 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 Kaduna's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 566 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Kaduna'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 2335727, the coordinate pair 10.5264 / 7.4388, country rank 6 of 30, and neighbor GeoNames 2317765 at 72.049 km bind Kaduna to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Kaduna's reference point is 10.5264° north and 7.4388° 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. Kaduna's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Kaduna's point falls in the near-equatorial coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Kaduna's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Kaduna, 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
Kaduna's closest other entries in this atlas are Zaria (72.049 km), Abuja (163.413 km), Jos (172.372 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.