About Yola
- With about 460,000 inhabitants, Yola is one of the 50 largest places in Nigeria.
- No town in Adamawa is bigger.
- Lagos, the largest city in Nigeria, is about 1047 km away.
- Towns nearby: Jimeta (8 km), Ngurore (28 km) and Mayo-Belwa (50 km).
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A weekday evening works well in Yola: places are quieter, you can actually hear each other, and there is no pressure to make it a long night.
More than 720,000 people live within 50 km of Yola, in 4 towns and cities including Jimeta, Ngurore and Mayo-Belwa. You set the distance yourself in the filters, from 10 km up to 500 km — or choose “Any distance”.
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