1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Nigeria
Compare this sourced profile of Okene, 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 Okene—479,178, 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: municipality in Kogi, Nigeria.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Okene is GeoNames ID 2327220. Its recorded administrative path is Okene → Kogi State → Nigeria, and GeoNames classifies the place as a second-order administrative seat. Okene 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 2016-01-30; 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, Okene ranks 1,198 by recorded population. Inside the 30 selected Nigeria entries it ranks 30; inside the 243 entries in its broad region it ranks 243. Its 479,178 population value is 0.52 times the 930,000 median for the country cohort and 0.53 times the 902,588 regional median. Okene sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected Nigeria entries. Okene'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.
Okene's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Akure at 119.684 km with 730,000 recorded people; Benin City at 150.765 km with 1,782,000 recorded people; Onitsha at 167.237 km with 1,553,000 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 47.553 km. Compared with Akure, Okene's recorded population is 0.66 times as large. Against Okene, Akure follows Akure South → Ondo 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 Okene's. Against Okene, Benin City follows Oredo → Edo 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 Okene's. Against Okene, Onitsha follows Onitsha North → Anambra → 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 second-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above Okene's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 774 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Okene'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 2327220, the coordinate pair 7.5512 / 6.2359, country rank 30 of 30, and neighbor GeoNames 2350841 at 119.684 km bind Okene to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Okene's reference point is 7.5512° north and 6.2359° 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. Okene's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Okene's point falls in the near-equatorial coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Okene's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Okene, 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
Okene's closest other entries in this atlas are Akure (119.684 km), Benin City (150.765 km), Onitsha (167.237 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2016-01-30; 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.