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Aba

Nigeria

Watercolour of Aba, Nigeria. The historic commercial powerhouse ("the Japan of Africa") in the Niger Delta basin, with Christ the King Catholic Church and Aba River.
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
Christ the King Catholic Church; Aba River; National Museum of Colonial History; Faulks Road; lush tropical vegetation
Viewpoint
Favor an elevated viewpoint overlooking the town toward the Aba River and Waterside Bridge, showing riverbank vegetation in the foreground, bustling trading plazas and the CKC Cathedral tower in the middle-ground, and the lush tropical forest canopy receding into the background.
Palette
Green should be the predominant color, especially in the oil palm canopies, riverside vegetation along the Aba River, and urban tree foliage.
Guarded against
Not a generic African savanna or coastal lagoon
Population1,160,000Wikidata: 500,183
Coordinates5.11°N, 7.37°E
Elevation205 m
Area72 km²
Time zoneAfrica/LagosUTC+1
Solar noon12:31clock runs 0.5 h ahead of the sun

Through the Earth

Dig straight through the Earth from Aba and you surface nearest to Atafu Village, Tokelau — 382 km from the exact antipodal point.

Nearest cities in the atlas

Port HarcourtNG54 km
OnitshaNG132 km
Benin CityNG236 km
DoualaCM284 km
AbujaNG439 km
IbadanNG458 km
LagosNG465 km
YaoundéCM480 km

Twinned cities

Wikidata records no twinned cities for Aba inside this atlas.

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