Ile Ife
Ile Ife is an ancient Yoruba city with a population of about 510,000 in Osun State in South West Nigeria. It's about 218 km northeast of Lagos.
- City with about 502,000 residents
- …lies at an elevation of around 280 metres (920 feet)
- …is also known as “Ifẹ̀”
- Description: an ancient Yoruba city in south-western Nigeria founded sometime between the years 1000 BC and 500 BC
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Latitude
7.4828° or 7° 28′ 58″ north
Longitude
4.5604° or 4° 33′ 38″ east
Open location code
6FV6FHM6+45
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OpenStreetMap feature
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yoruba—“Ile Ife” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “إيف”
- Arabic: “ايفي”
- Armenian: “Իֆե”
- Asturian: “Ile Ife”
- Basque: “Ife”
- Belarusian: “Іфэ”
- Bengali: “ইফে”
- Bulgarian: “Ифе”
- Catalan: “Ife”
- Cebuano: “Ile-Ife”
- Chinese: “伊費”
- Chinese: “伊费”
- Chuvash: “Ифе”
- Croatian: “Ife (Nigerija)”
- Croatian: “Ife”
- Czech: “Ile-Ife”
- Danish: “Ifẹ̀”
- Dutch: “Ife”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ايفى”
- Esperanto: “Ifè”
- Esperanto: “Ilé-Ifẹ̀”
- Finnish: “Ife”
- French: “Ifẹ̀”
- French: “Ile Ife”
- Fulah: “Ifẹ”
- Galician: “Ifẹ”
- German: “Ifẹ̀”
- German: “Ile-Ife”
- Greek: “Ιλέ-Ίφε”
- Greek: “Ίφε”
- Gujarati: “આયફે”
- Hausa: “Ifẹ”
- Hausa: “Ile Ife”
- Hebrew: “איפה”
- Hindi: “इफ़े”
- Hungarian: “Ife”
- Igbo: “Ife”
- Igbo: “Ile Ife”
- Indonesian: “Ife”
- Irish: “Ife”
- Italian: “Ife”
- Japanese: “イフェ”
- Kannada: “ಐಫೆ”
- Korean: “이페”
- Latvian: “Ife”
- Lithuanian: “Ifė”
- Malay: “Ife”
- Marathi: “आयफे”
- Moksha: “Ифэ”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Ife”
- Norwegian: “Ife”
- Persian: “ایفی”
- Polish: “Ife”
- Portuguese: “Ifé”
- Romanian: “Ife”
- Russian: “Ифе”
- Sinhala: “අයිෆේ”
- Spanish: “Ifè”
- Swahili: “Ife”
- Swahili: “Ile-Ife”
- Swedish: “Ife”
- Tamil: “ஐபி”
- Telugu: “ఈఫ”
- Thai: “ไฮฟา”
- Turkish: “Ifẹ”
- Twi: “Ile Ife”
- Tyap: “Ile Ife”
- Ukrainian: “Іфе”
- Urdu: “ایفی”
- Urdu: “ایلی-ایفی”
- Venetian: “Ife”
- Vietnamese: “Ife”
- Waray (Philippines): “Ifẹ”
- Yoruba: “Ifẹ̀”
- Yoruba: “Ilé-Ifẹ̀”
- Yoruba: “Ufẹ̀”
- Yoruba: “Ulé-Ufẹ̀”
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