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Ilorin, Kwara. Abuja, FCT. Enugu, Enugu. Zaria, Kaduna. Ikorodu, Lagos. Maiduguri, Borno. Aba, Abia. The following are lists of the most populous fully defined incorporated settlements in Nigeria by population. This page consists of three different tables, with different kinds of settlements; a list for "defined cities", listing the population ...
Map of Nigeria. Lagos, Lagos. Kano, Kano State, second-most populous city by census 2006. Ibadan, Oyo State, third-most populous. This is a list of populated places in Nigeria. Cities in bold are among the fourteenth-most populous in the country (covered in more detail at List of Nigerian cities by population ): Port Harcourt City Center ...
Nigeria borders Niger in the north, Chad in the northeast, Cameroon in the east, and Benin in the west. Nigeria is a federal republic comprising 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory, where the capital, Abuja, is located. The largest city in Nigeria is Lagos, one of the largest metropolitan areas in the world and the largest in Africa.
217,313 km 2 (83,905 sq mi) Location of Nigeria. Satellite image of Nigeria. Nigeria is a country in West Africa. It shares land borders with the Republic of Benin to the west, Chad and Cameroon to the east, and Niger to the north. [1] Its coast lies on the Gulf of Guinea in the south and it borders Lake Chad to the northeast.
List of state capitals of Nigeria. The following is a list of Nigerian state capitals . State. Capital. Abia State. Umuahia. Adamawa. Yola.
Abuja (/ ə ˈ b uː dʒ ə /) is the capital and eighth most populous city of Nigeria. Situated in the middle of the country within the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), it is a planned city built mainly in the 1980s based on a master plan by International Planning Associates (IPA), a consortium of three American planning and architecture firms made up of Wallace, Roberts, McHarg & Todd (WRMT ...
Northern Nigeria and Southern Nigeria were also sometimes known as the Northern Provinces or Southern Provinces respectively. Currently, Nigeria is a federation of 36 states. The first use of provinces was in Northern Nigeria after Britain took over administration of the area from the Royal Niger Company in 1900. The British originally divided ...
Lagos ( / ˈleɪɡɒs / LAY-goss; [10] [11] also US: / ˈlɑːɡoʊs / LAH-gohss; [11] [12] Yoruba: Èkó) or Lagos City is the most populous city in Nigeria (Self-proclaimed [13] ), with an estimated population of 21 million [14] [15] [16] in 2015. Lagos is the most populous urban area in Africa. [17] Lagos was the national capital of Nigeria ...