1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Nigeria
Compare this sourced profile of Warri, 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 Warri—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: Local government areas in Delta State,in Nigeria..
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Warri is GeoNames ID 2319133. Its recorded administrative path is Warri South → Delta → Nigeria, and GeoNames classifies the place as a second-order administrative seat. Warri 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 2024-01-18; 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, Warri ranks 608 by recorded population. Inside the 30 selected Nigeria entries it ranks 16; inside the 243 entries in its broad region it ranks 120. Its 910,000 population value is 0.98 times the 930,000 median for the country cohort and 1.01 times the 902,588 regional median. Warri sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected Nigeria entries. Warri'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.
Warri's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Benin City at 92.296 km with 1,782,000 recorded people; Onitsha at 134.421 km with 1,553,000 recorded people; Owerri at 142.077 km with 545,000 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 49.781 km. Compared with Benin City, Warri's recorded population is 0.51 times as large. Against Warri, Benin City follows Oredo → Edo 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 first-order administrative seat rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Warri's. Against Warri, Onitsha follows Onitsha North → Anambra → 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 the same second-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above Warri's. Against Warri, Owerri follows Owerri Municipal → Imo 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 Warri's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 661 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Warri'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 2319133, the coordinate pair 5.5174 / 5.7501, country rank 16 of 30, and neighbor GeoNames 2347283 at 92.296 km bind Warri to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Warri's reference point is 5.5174° north and 5.7501° 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. Warri's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Warri's point falls in the near-equatorial coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Warri's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Warri, 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
Warri's closest other entries in this atlas are Benin City (92.296 km), Onitsha (134.421 km), Owerri (142.077 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2024-01-18; 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.