Ilorin

Ilorin is the capital city of in . In 2020, it was home to an estimated 950,000 people. The city is a confluence of cultures, populated by the Fulani, Yoruba, Hausa, Nupe, Bariba and Kanuri tribes from across , as well as foreign nationals.
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  • Type: City with 848,000 residents
  • Description: city in Nigeria
  • Also known as: “Geri Alimi”, “Ilori”, and “Ìlọrin”

Places of Interest

Highlights: Kwara State Stadium.

Stadium
Photo: Major Lyte, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The is a multi-use in Ilorin, , Nigeria.

Ilorin

Latitude
8.4964° or 8° 29′ 47″ north
Longitude
4.548° or 4° 32′ 53″ east
Population
848,000
Elevation
320 metres (1,050 feet)
IATA airport code
ILR
UN/LOCODE
NG ILR
Open location code
6FW6FGWX+G6
Open­Street­Map ID
node 27565089
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2337639
Wiki­data ID
Q587085
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In Other Languages

From Amharic to Yoruba—“Ilorin” goes by many names.
  • Amharic: “ኢሎሪን”
  • Arabic: “إلورين”
  • Arabic: “إيلورين”
  • Asturian: “Ilorin”
  • Azerbaijani: “Ilorin”
  • Basque: “Ilorin”
  • Bavarian: “Ilorin”
  • Belarusian: “Ілорын”
  • Bengali: “ইলোরিন”
  • Bole: “Illorin”
  • Bulgarian: “Илорин”
  • Catalan: “Ilorin”
  • Cebuano: “Ilorin (kapital sa estado)”
  • Cebuano: “Ilorin”
  • Chinese: “伊洛林”
  • Croatian: “Ilorin”
  • Czech: “Ilorin”
  • Danish: “Ilorin”
  • Dutch: “Ilorin”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “الورين”
  • Esperanto: “Ilorin”
  • Finnish: “Ilorin”
  • French: “Ilorin”
  • Fulah: “Ilorin”
  • Georgian: “ილორინი”
  • German: “Ilorin”
  • Greek: “Ιλορίν”
  • Gujarati: “ઈલોરીન”
  • Hausa: “Ilorin”
  • Hebrew: “אילורין”
  • Hindi: “इलोरिन”
  • Hungarian: “Ilorin”
  • Igbo: “Ilorin”
  • Indonesian: “Ilorin”
  • Irish: “Ilorin”
  • Italian: “Ilorin”
  • Japanese: “イロリン”
  • Javanese: “Ilorin”
  • Kannada: “ಲೋರೀನ್”
  • Kazakh: “Илорин”
  • Kirghiz: “Илорин”
  • Korean: “일로린”
  • Latvian: “Ilorina”
  • Lithuanian: “Ilorinas”
  • Malagasy: “Ilorin”
  • Malay: “Ilorin”
  • Marathi: “इओरीन”
  • Moksha: “Илорин”
  • Nigerian Pidgin: “Ilorin”
  • Northern Frisian: “Ilorin”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Ilorin”
  • Norwegian: “Ilorin”
  • Nupe-Nupe-Tako: “Ilorin”
  • Oromo: “Ilorin”
  • Panjabi: “ਇਲੋਰਿਨ”
  • Persian: “الورین”
  • Persian: “ایلورین”
  • Polish: “Ilorin”
  • Portuguese: “Ilorin”
  • Pushto: “الورین”
  • Romanian: “Ilorin”
  • Russian: “Илорин”
  • Silesian: “Ilorin”
  • Sinhala: “ඉලොරින්”
  • Slovenian: “Ilorin”
  • Somali: “Ilorin”
  • South Azerbaijani: “ایلورین”
  • Spanish: “Ilorin”
  • Swahili: “Ilorin”
  • Swedish: “Ilorin”
  • Tajik: “Илорин”
  • Tamil: “யியோரின்”
  • Tatar: “Илорин”
  • Telugu: “ఇలోరిన్”
  • Thai: “อีโลริน”
  • Turkish: “Ilorin”
  • Turkish: “llorin”
  • Tyap: “Ilorin”
  • Ukrainian: “Ілорин”
  • Ukrainian: “Ілорін”
  • Urdu: “الورن”
  • Uzbek: “Ilorin”
  • Venetian: “Ilorin”
  • Veps: “Ilorin”
  • Vietnamese: “Ilorin”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Ilorin”
  • Yoruba: “Ilorin”

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