Nigeria
South West Nigeria
Osun State

Iwo

Iwo is a city in , Southwest Nigeria. It lies 6 miles North of the Iwo station on the Lagos-Kano railway and at the intersection of roads from , , and , on a low hill at the edge of savanna and forest.
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  • Type: Town with 250,000 residents
  • Description: city and LGA in Osun State, Nigeria
  • Also known as: “Iwo, Osun”

Iwo

Latitude
7.6333° or 7° 38′ north
Longitude
4.1833° or 4° 11′ east
Population
250,000
Elevation
246 metres (807 feet)
Open location code
6FV6J5MM+88
Open­Street­Map ID
node 501361111
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2336905
Wiki­data ID
Q1665608
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yoruba—“Iwo” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “آيو، نيجيريا”
  • Azerbaijani: “İvo ( Nigeriya)”
  • Azerbaijani: “İvo”
  • Catalan: “Iwo”
  • Cebuano: “Iwo (distrito)”
  • Cebuano: “Iwo (kapital sa distrito)”
  • Cebuano: “Iwo”
  • Chinese: “Iwo”
  • Chinese: “伊沃”
  • Dutch: “Iwo, Nigeria”
  • Esperanto: “Iwo”
  • French: “Iwo”
  • Fulah: “Iwo”
  • Georgian: “ივო (ნიგერია)”
  • Georgian: “ივო”
  • German: “Iwo”
  • Hausa: “Iwo (Nijeriya)”
  • Hausa: “Iwo”
  • Hausa: “LGA”
  • Igbo: “Iwo”
  • Italian: “Iwo”
  • Lithuanian: “Ivas”
  • Malagasy: “Iwo”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Iwo”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Iwo”
  • Norwegian: “Iwo”
  • Polish: “Iwo”
  • Portuguese: “Iuó”
  • Portuguese: “Iwo”
  • Romanian: “Iwo, Nigeria”
  • Russian: “Иво”
  • Spanish: “Iwo”
  • Swahili: “Iwo”
  • Swedish: “Iwo”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Iwo, Nigeria”
  • Yoruba: “Ìwó”

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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 “Iwo”. Photo: Deboaa, CC BY-SA 4.0.