South West Nigeria
Ondo State
Akure South

Akure

Akure is in Southwest Nigeria. Akure is the capital of Ondo State and headquarters of the Akure Kingdom. It is the largest city in the state, with a population of about 570,000.
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  • Type: City with 387,000 residents
  • Description: capital of Ondo State in Nigeria
  • Also known as: “Akuce”

Akure

Latitude
7.2526° or 7° 15′ 9″ north
Longitude
5.1933° or 5° 11′ 36″ east
Population
387,000
Elevation
353 metres (1,158 feet)
IATA airport code
AKR
United Nations Location Code
NG AKR
Open location code
6FV7753V+28
Open­Street­Map ID
node 501540926
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2350841
Wiki­data ID
Q423831
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yoruba—“Akure” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “أكوري”
  • Arabic: “اكوري”
  • Armenian: “Ակուրե”
  • Asturian: “Akure”
  • Bavarian: “Akure”
  • Bengali: “আকুরে”
  • Catalan: “Akure”
  • Cebuano: “Akure (kapital sa estado sa Nigeria)”
  • Cebuano: “Akure”
  • Chinese: “阿庫雷”
  • Croatian: “Akure”
  • Czech: “Akure”
  • Danish: “Akure”
  • Dutch: “Akure”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اكورى”
  • Esperanto: “Akure”
  • Finnish: “Akure”
  • French: “Akure”
  • Georgian: “აკურე”
  • German: “Akure”
  • Greek: “Ακούρε”
  • Gujarati: “અકુરે”
  • Hausa: “Akure,”
  • Hausa: “Akure”
  • Hebrew: “אקורה”
  • Hindi: “अकुरे”
  • Hungarian: “Akure”
  • Igbo: “Akure”
  • Indonesian: “Akure”
  • Italian: “Akure”
  • Japanese: “アクレ (ナイジェリア)”
  • Japanese: “アクレ”
  • Kannada: “ಅಕೂರ್”
  • Korean: “아쿠레”
  • Latvian: “Akure”
  • Lithuanian: “Akure”
  • Lithuanian: “Akurė”
  • Malagasy: “Akure”
  • Malay: “Akure”
  • Marathi: “अकुरे”
  • Nigerian Pidgin: “Akure”
  • Northern Frisian: “Akure”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Akure”
  • Norwegian: “Akure”
  • Persian: “اکوره”
  • Polish: “Akure”
  • Portuguese: “Acurê”
  • Portuguese: “Akure”
  • Romanian: “Akure”
  • Russian: “Акуре”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Akure”
  • Sinhala: “අකුරේ”
  • Slovenian: “Akure”
  • South Azerbaijani: “اکوره (نیجریه)”
  • South Azerbaijani: “اکوره”
  • Spanish: “Akure”
  • Swahili: “Akure”
  • Swedish: “Akure”
  • Tamil: “அகுரே”
  • Telugu: “అకురే”
  • Thai: “อะคูร์”
  • Turkish: “Akura”
  • Tyap: “Akure”
  • Ukrainian: “Акуре”
  • Urdu: “اکورے”
  • Vietnamese: “Akure”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Akure”
  • Yoruba: “Akure”
  • Yoruba: “Àkúrẹ́”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Akure”. Photo: Favouridowu, CC BY-SA 4.0.