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Jos

Nigeria

Watercolour of Jos, Nigeria. On the rocky Jos Plateau, the cool-climate highland city centered around Shere Hills, the Rayfield lakes, and the Jos Wildlife Park, with Shere Hills and Rayfield Resort Lake.
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
Shere Hills; Rayfield Resort Lake; Museum of Traditional Nigerian Architecture; Rayfield and European; Jos Wildlife Park; Berom and Anaguta; lush Jos Plateau temperate-montane flora; Nok
Viewpoint
Favor the classic viewpoint looking across the calm waters of Rayfield Lake toward the rocky crags of Shere Hills, showing eucalyptus branches and granite boulders in the foreground, the tranquil lake water, wooden boating wharf, and stone bungalows in the middle-ground, and the dramatic, jagged granite peaks of Shere Hills rising in the background.
Palette
Green should be the predominant color, especially in the thick pine and eucalyptus woodlands covering the plateau, Rayfield lakeside lawns, and montane grasslands.
Guarded against
Not Abuja, Kaduna, or Kano
Population1,040,000Wikidata: 622,802
Coordinates9.93°N, 8.89°E
Elevation1,217 m
Time zoneAfrica/LagosUTC+1
Solar noon12:24clock runs 0.4 h ahead of the sun

Through the Earth

Dig straight through the Earth from Jos and you surface nearest to Fale old settlement, Tokelau — 62 km from the exact antipodal point.

Nearest cities in the atlas

KadunaNG172 km
AbujaNG181 km
KanoNG234 km
OnitshaNG480 km
IlorinNG503 km
MaiduguriNG513 km
SokotoNG528 km
Benin CityNG537 km

Twinned cities

Wikidata records no twinned cities for Jos inside this atlas.

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