1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Nigeria
Compare this sourced profile of Kano, 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 Kano—4,910,000, 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 Kano is GeoNames ID 2335204. Its recorded administrative path is Kano Municipal → Kano State → Nigeria, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Kano 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, Kano ranks 60 by recorded population. Inside the 30 selected Nigeria entries it ranks 2; inside the 243 entries in its broad region it ranks 11. Its 4,910,000 population value is 5.28 times the 930,000 median for the country cohort and 5.44 times the 902,588 regional median. Kano falls inside the leading tenth of this atlas's Nigeria population cohort. Kano's recorded value reaches at least twice the country-cohort median in this snapshot. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Kano's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Zaria at 131.341 km with 980,000 recorded people; Katsina at 148.328 km with 670,000 recorded people; Kaduna at 201.67 km with 1,850,000 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 70.329 km. Compared with Zaria, Kano's recorded population is 5.01 times as large. Against Kano, Zaria follows Sabon Gari → Kaduna 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 populated place rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Kano's. Against Kano, Katsina follows Katsina → Katsina 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 Kano's. Against Kano, Kaduna follows Kaduna North → Kaduna 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 below Kano's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 822 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Kano'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 2335204, the coordinate pair 12.0001 / 8.5167, country rank 2 of 30, and neighbor GeoNames 2317765 at 131.341 km bind Kano to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Kano's reference point is 12.0001° north and 8.5167° 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. Kano's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Kano's point falls in the near-equatorial coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Kano's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Kano, 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
Kano's closest other entries in this atlas are Zaria (131.341 km), Katsina (148.328 km), Kaduna (201.67 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.