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Ile Ife

ancient Yoruba city in southwestern Nigeria
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Ile Ife

Summary

Ile Ife is a city[1]. It ranks in the top 10% of city entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (241 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Ile Ife is located in Osun State[3].
  • Ile Ife is in the country of Nigeria[4].
  • Ile Ife's video is recorded as Short oral history of Ile Ife in Ile-Ife language by a native speaker.webm[5].
  • Ile Ife's image is recorded as Faculty of Medicine, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State, Nigeria (12998041954).jpg[6].
  • Ile Ife's instance of is recorded as city[7].
  • Ile Ife's instance of is recorded as big city[8].
  • Ile Ife's twinned administrative body is recorded as San Bernardino[9].
  • Ile Ife's twinned administrative body is recorded as Rio de Janeiro[10].
  • Ile Ife's VIAF cluster ID is recorded as 132510300[11].
  • Ile Ife's GND ID is recorded as 4095889-9[12].
  • Ile Ife's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as n79061288[13].
  • Ile Ife's IdRef ID is recorded as 027570320[14].
  • Ile Ife's Commons category is recorded as Ile-Ife[15].
  • Ile Ife's located in time zone is recorded as UTC+01:00[16].
  • Ile Ife's pronunciation audio is recorded as LL-Q34311 (yor)-Mathardé Gilpatrick-Ilé-Ifẹ̀.wav[17].
  • Ile Ife's coordinate location is recorded as {'lat': 7.4666666666667, 'lon': 4.5666666666667}[18].
  • Ile Ife's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/023v7p[19].
  • Ile Ife's NL CR AUT ID is recorded as ge774484[20].
  • Ile Ife's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Ifẹ[21].
  • Ile Ife's page banner is recorded as Ile-Ife, Osun State, Nigeria Wikivoyage banner.jpg[22].
  • Ile Ife's population is recorded as {'amount': '+501952'}[23].
  • Ile Ife's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as place/Ile-Ife[24].
  • Ile Ife's present in work is recorded as Civilization V[25].
  • Ile Ife's GeoNames ID is recorded as 2338900[26].
  • Ile Ife's Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names ID is recorded as 7000498[27].

Body

Geography

Ile Ife is in the country of Nigeria[4]. It is located in Osun State[3].

Physical Characteristics

Ile Ife's area is recorded as {'unit': 'Q712226', 'amount': '+1791'}[28]. Its elevation above sea level is recorded as {'unit': 'Q11573', 'amount': '+280'}[29]. Its population is recorded as {'amount': '+501952'}[23].

Designation and Status

Recorded instance of include city[7] and big city[8].

Why It Matters

Ile Ife ranks in the top 10% of city entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (241 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 23 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[30] It is known by 4 alternative names across languages and contexts.[31]

Related Entities

city Nigeria

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . mail.camara.rj.gov.br. mail.camara.rj.gov.br. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . Virtual International Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . Integrated Authority File. wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . GeoNames. wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  26. [29] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  27. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [30] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [31] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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