1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Nigeria
Compare this sourced profile of Oyo, 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 Oyo—736,072, 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 Oyo is GeoNames ID 2325200. Its recorded administrative path is Oyo West → Oyo State → Nigeria, and GeoNames classifies the place as a second-order administrative seat. Oyo 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 2022-06-18; 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, Oyo ranks 748 by recorded population. Inside the 30 selected Nigeria entries it ranks 17; inside the 243 entries in its broad region it ranks 154. Its 736,072 population value is 0.79 times the 930,000 median for the country cohort and 0.82 times the 902,588 regional median. Oyo sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected Nigeria entries. Oyo'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.
Oyo's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Ibadan at 53.021 km with 3,649,000 recorded people; Osogbo at 69.422 km with 645,000 recorded people; Ile Ife at 80.581 km with 560,000 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 27.56 km. Compared with Ibadan, Oyo's recorded population is 0.20 times as large. Against Oyo, 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 Oyo's. Against Oyo, 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 first-order administrative seat rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Oyo's. Against Oyo, 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 the same second-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Oyo's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 463 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Oyo'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 2325200, the coordinate pair 7.8537 / 3.9324, country rank 17 of 30, and neighbor GeoNames 2339354 at 53.021 km bind Oyo to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Oyo's reference point is 7.8537° north and 3.9324° 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. Oyo's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Oyo's point falls in the near-equatorial coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Oyo's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Oyo, 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
Oyo's closest other entries in this atlas are Ibadan (53.021 km), Osogbo (69.422 km), Ile Ife (80.581 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2022-06-18; 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.