Ilesa
Ilesa is a city with a population of 371,000 in Osun State, South West Nigeria. It lies at an intersection of roads leading to Ile Ife, Akure and Osogbo. It is the headquarters of Ijeshaland and has the largest township.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: City with 278,000 residents
- Description: town in Nigeria
- Also known as: “Ilesha”
Ilesa
- Category: locality
- Location: Ilesa West, Osun State, South West Nigeria, Nigeria, West Africa, Africa
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Latitude
7.6246° or 7° 37′ 29″ northLongitude
4.7415° or 4° 44′ 29″ eastPopulation
278,000Elevation
377 metres (1,237 feet)United Nations Location Code
NG ILAOpen location code
6FV6JPFR+RHOpenStreetMap ID
node 501487119OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yoruba—“Ilesa” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “إليشا”
- Asturian: “Ilesa”
- Belarusian: “Ілеша”
- Bulgarian: “Илеса”
- Catalan: “Ilesa”
- Cebuano: “Ilesa”
- Chinese: “伊莱沙”
- Chinese: “伊萊沙”
- Dutch: “Ilesha”
- Esperanto: “Ilesa”
- French: “Ilesha”
- Fulah: “Ilesa West”
- Galician: “Ilesa”
- German: “Ilesha”
- Hausa: “Ilesa”
- Hebrew: “לסה”
- Igbo: “Ilesa”
- Igbo: “Ilesha”
- Italian: “Ilesa”
- Lithuanian: “Ileša”
- Malagasy: “Ilesa”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Ilesa”
- Norwegian: “Ilesa”
- Persian: “ایلسا”
- Polish: “Ilesha”
- Portuguese: “Ilesa”
- Portuguese: “Ilexá”
- Romanian: “Ilesha”
- Russian: “Илеша”
- Slovenian: “Ilesa”
- Spanish: “Ilesa”
- Swahili: “Ilesa”
- Swedish: “Ilesha”
- Turkish: “Ilesa”
- Tyap: “Ilesa”
- Tyap: “Ilesha”
- Urdu: “الیشا”
- Uzbek: “Ilesha”
- Waray (Philippines): “Ilesha”
- Yoruba: “Iléṣà”
- “Ilesa”
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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 “Ilesa”. Photo: Kaysmart12, CC0.