South West Nigeria
Osun State
Ife Central

Ile Ife

Ile Ife is an ancient Yoruba city with a population of about 510,000 in in . It's about 218 km northeast of Lagos.
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  • Type: City with 502,000 residents
  • Description: ancient Yoruba city in southwestern Nigeria
  • Also known as: “Ife” and “Ifẹ”

Ile Ife

Latitude
7.4828° or 7° 28′ 58″ north
Longitude
4.5604° or 4° 33′ 38″ east
Population
502,000
Elevation
295 metres (968 feet)
Open location code
6FV6FHM6+45
Open­Street­Map ID
node 501485612
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2338900
Wiki­data ID
Q180084
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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”
  • Czech: “Ile-Ife”
  • Danish: “Ife”
  • Dutch: “Ife”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ايفى”
  • Esperanto: “Ife”
  • Esperanto: “Ifè”
  • Esperanto: “Ilé-Ifẹ̀”
  • Finnish: “Ife”
  • French: “Ife”
  • French: “Ile Ife”
  • Galician: “Ifẹ”
  • German: “Ile-Ife”
  • Greek: “Ιλέ-Ίφε”
  • Greek: “Ίφε”
  • Gujarati: “આયફે”
  • Hausa: “Ifẹ”
  • Hausa: “Ile Ife”
  • Hebrew: “איפה”
  • Hindi: “ईफा”
  • 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: “Ife”
  • Spanish: “Ifè”
  • Swahili: “Ife”
  • Swahili: “Ile-Ife”
  • Swedish: “Ife”
  • Tamil: “ஐபி”
  • Telugu: “ఈఫ”
  • Thai: “ไฮฟา”
  • Turkish: “Ife”
  • Tyap: “Ile Ife”
  • Ukrainian: “Іфе”
  • Urdu: “ایفی”
  • Urdu: “ایلی-ایفی”
  • Venetian: “Ife”
  • Vietnamese: “Ife”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Ife”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Ifẹ”
  • Yoruba: “Ifẹ̀”
  • Yoruba: “Ilé-Ifẹ̀”
  • Yoruba: “Ufẹ̀”
  • Yoruba: “Ulé-Ufẹ̀”

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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 “Ile Ife”. Photo: T. Obi, CC BY 2.0.