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Ilaro

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thumb|A statue of the warrior Orona in Ilaro

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The entry is geolocated on the map, across 2 mapped points.

Vinony's link graph records 65 inbound references to Ilaro, and connects out to association football, Barbados and maize.

It is catalogued under topics including Populated places in Ogun State, Towns in Yorubaland and Use Nigerian English from January 2023.

Vinony links it to 6 Wikipedia language editions.

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Place details

Locality
Ilaro
Region
Ogun
Country
Nigeria
Population
46,999
Timezone
Africa/Lagos

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63US AQIModerate
PM2.5
12.3 µg/m³
PM10
15.6 µg/m³
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Encyclopedic overview

10 sections
Contents
  • Agriculture and industry
  • History
  • Culture
  • Neighbouring towns
  • Politics
  • Climate
  • Education
  • Infrastructure
  • See also
  • References

thumb|A statue of the warrior Orona in Ilaro

Ilaro is a town in Ogun State, Nigeria. Ilaro's population in 2008 was estimated at 33,000 people, and in 2015 it was estimated to have grown to about 60,000. Ilaro is the headquarters of the Yewa South Local government, known as Yewaland, which replaced the Egbado division of the former Western State, and later became a part of Ogun State of Nigeria. Ilaro town is about from Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, and about from Ikeja, the capital city of Lagos State. Ilaro's area is about .

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ilaro” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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