Osogbo
Osogbo is a city of almost 400,000 people in Osun State in Southwest Nigeria. Osogbo, sometimes called "Ile Aro", is a major dyeing centre.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: El-Shaddaites, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: El-Shaddaites, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: City with 157,000 residents
- Description: city and local government area in Osun State, Nigeria
- Also known as: “Eshogbo”, “Oshogbo”, and “Oṣogbo”
Places of Interest
Highlights include UNIOSUN Teaching Hospital.
UNIOSUN Teaching Hospital
Hospital
UNIOSUN Teaching Hospital is a state owned medical teaching hospital located in Osogbo, Osun State, Nigeria to provide tertiary health care and support undergraduate medical students from Osun State University.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Osun-Osogbo.
Osun-Osogbo
Locality
Photo: Jurema Oliveira, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Osun-Osogbo is a sacred grove along the banks of the Osun river just outside the city of Osogbo, Osun State of Nigeria. The Osun-Osogbo Grove is several centuries old and is among the last of the sacred forests that once adjoined the edges of most Yoruba cities before extensive urbanization.
Osogbo
- Categories: local government area of Nigeria and locality
- Location: Osun State, South West Nigeria, Nigeria, West Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
7.7792° or 7° 46′ 45″ northLongitude
4.5539° or 4° 33′ 14″ eastPopulation
157,000Elevation
336 metres (1,102 feet)Open location code
6FV6QHH3+MHOpenStreetMap ID
node 501540896OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
2325590Wikidata ID
Q868203
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yoruba—“Osogbo” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “أوسوغبو”
- Armenian: “Օշոգբո”
- Asturian: “Osogbo”
- Azerbaijani: “Oşoqbo”
- Bavarian: “Oshogbo”
- Belarusian: “Ашогба”
- Bengali: “ওসোগবো”
- Bulgarian: “Ошогбо”
- Catalan: “Osogbo”
- Cebuano: “Osogbo (distrito)”
- Cebuano: “Osogbo”
- Chinese: “Osogbo”
- Chinese: “奥绍博”
- Chinese: “奧紹博”
- Croatian: “Oshogbo”
- Croatian: “Osogbo”
- Croatian: “Oṣogbo”
- Croatian: “Svetište boginje Osun-Osogbo”
- Czech: “Oshogbo”
- Dagbani: “Osogbo”
- Danish: “Oshogbo”
- Danish: “Osogbo”
- Dutch: “Oshogbo”
- Dutch: “Osogbo”
- Egyptian Arabic: “اوسوجبو”
- Esperanto: “Osogbo”
- Finnish: “Osogbo”
- French: “Oshogbo”
- French: “Osogbo”
- German: “Oshogbo”
- Greek: “Οσόγκμπο”
- Gujarati: “ઓસોગ્બો”
- Hausa: “Osogbo”
- Hebrew: “אוסוגבו”
- Hindi: “ओसोग्बो”
- Hungarian: “Oshogbo”
- Igbo: “Oshogbo”
- Igbo: “Osogbo”
- Igbo: “Oṣogbo”
- Indonesian: “Osogbo”
- Italian: “Oshogbo”
- Italian: “Osogbo”
- Italian: “Oṣogbo”
- Japanese: “オショグボ”
- Japanese: “オショッボ”
- Japanese: “オソグボ”
- Kannada: “ಓಸೊಗ್ಬೋ”
- Korean: “오쇼그보”
- Latvian: “Ošogbo”
- Lithuanian: “Ošogbas”
- Malagasy: “Osogbo”
- Malay: “Osogbo”
- Marathi: “ओसोग्बो”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Osogbo”
- Moksha: “Ошогба”
- Northern Frisian: “Oshogbo”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Osogbo”
- Norwegian: “Osogbo”
- Persian: “اوسوگبو”
- Polish: “Oshogbo”
- Polish: “Osogbo”
- Portuguese: “História do nome osogbo”
- Portuguese: “Ochobo”
- Portuguese: “Oshogbo”
- Portuguese: “Osogbo”
- Portuguese: “Oxobo”
- Portuguese: “Oxobô”
- Romanian: “Oshogbo”
- Russian: “Ошогбо”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Osogbo”
- Sinhala: “ඔසොග්බෝ”
- South Azerbaijani: “اوسوقبو”
- Spanish: “Osogbo”
- Swahili: “Oshogbo”
- Swedish: “Oshogbo”
- Swedish: “Osogbo”
- Tamil: “ஒசோஃபோ”
- Telugu: “ఓసోగ్బో”
- Thai: “โอโซริโอ”
- Turkish: “Osogbo”
- Ukrainian: “Ошогбо”
- Urdu: “اوسوگبو”
- Uzbek: “Oshogbo”
- Vietnamese: “Osogbo”
- Waray (Philippines): “Oshogbo”
- Waray (Philippines): “Osogbo”
- Welsh: “Osogbo”
- Yoruba: “Oshogbo”
- Yoruba: “Osogbo”
- Yoruba: “Òṣogbo”
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