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” and “Akure, Najeriya”

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
UN/LOCODE
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 Amharic to Yoruba—“Akure” goes by many names.
  • Amharic: “አኩሬ”
  • Arabic: “أكوري”
  • Arabic: “اكوري”
  • Armenian: “Ակուրե”
  • Asturian: “Akure”
  • Azerbaijani: “Akure”
  • Bavarian: “Akure”
  • Belarusian: “Акурэ”
  • 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”
  • French: “Akuré”
  • Georgian: “აკურე”
  • German: “Akure”
  • Greek: “Ακούρε”
  • Gujarati: “અકુરે”
  • 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”
  • Javanese: “Akure”
  • Kannada: “ಅಕೂರ್”
  • Kazakh: “Акуре”
  • Kirghiz: “Акуре”
  • Korean: “아쿠레”
  • Latvian: “Akure”
  • Lithuanian: “Akurė”
  • Malagasy: “Akure”
  • Malay: “Akure”
  • Marathi: “अकुरे”
  • Nigerian Pidgin: “Akure”
  • Northern Frisian: “Akure”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Akure”
  • Norwegian: “Akure”
  • Oromo: “Akure”
  • Panjabi: “ਅਕੁਰੇ”
  • Persian: “اکوره”
  • Polish: “Akure”
  • Portuguese: “Acurê”
  • Portuguese: “Akure”
  • Pushto: “اکوره”
  • Romanian: “Akure”
  • Russian: “Акуре”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Akure”
  • Silesian: “Akure”
  • Sinhala: “අකුරේ”
  • Slovenian: “Akure”
  • Somali: “Akure”
  • South Azerbaijani: “اکوره (نیجریه)”
  • South Azerbaijani: “اکوره”
  • Spanish: “Akure”
  • Swahili: “Akure”
  • Swedish: “Akure”
  • Tajik: “Акуре”
  • Tamil: “அகுரே”
  • Tatar: “Акуре”
  • Telugu: “అకురే”
  • Thai: “อะคูร์”
  • Tumbuka: “Akure”
  • Turkish: “Akura”
  • Turkish: “Akure”
  • Tyap: “Akure”
  • Ukrainian: “Акуре”
  • Urdu: “اکورے”
  • Uzbek: “Akure”
  • Vietnamese: “Akure”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Akure”
  • Yoruba: “Àkúrẹ́”

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