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Benin City

Nigeria

Watercolour of Benin City, Nigeria. The ancient heart of the Kingdom of Benin, renowned for its royal bronze casting, earthworks, and King's Square, with Oba of Benin's Royal Palace and King's Square.
AI-generated artistic rendering. Painted from written research on the city's setting, architecture and materials — not from a photograph.
What guided this image
Landmarks
Oba of Benin's Royal Palace; King's Square; Igun Street; Benin Moat and Earthworks; Ikpoba River; traditional Edo residential architecture; lush tropical flora; Edo
Viewpoint
Favor an elevated viewpoint overlooking King's Square toward the Oba's Palace and Igun Street, showing tropical palm canopies in the foreground, the palace walls, bronze motifs, and museum grounds in the middle-ground, and the vast, rolling green rainforest horizon in the background.
Palette
Green should be the predominant color, especially in the thick primary rainforest canopies along the Ikpoba River, oil palm groves, and landscaped museum gardens.
Guarded against
Not Lagos, Ibadan, or Kano
Population1,782,000Wikidata: 1,147,188
Coordinates6.34°N, 5.63°E
Elevation80 m
Area1,204 km²
Time zoneAfrica/LagosUTC+1
Solar noon12:37clock runs 0.6 h ahead of the sun

Through the Earth

Dig straight through the Earth from Benin City and you surface nearest to Atafu Village, Tokelau — 318 km from the exact antipodal point.

Nearest cities in the atlas

OnitshaNG130 km
IbadanNG222 km
Port HarcourtNG231 km
AbaNG236 km
LagosNG248 km
IlorinNG269 km
Porto-NovoBJ335 km
AbujaNG366 km

Twinned cities

Wikidata records no twinned cities for Benin City inside this atlas.

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