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Lagos is a metropolis and the capital of Lagos State, a state in southwestern Nigeria. The article provides a comprehensive overview of Lagos's geography, climate, economy, culture, history, and more.
Lagos is Nigeria's largest city and former capital, located on the Bight of Benin in the Gulf of Guinea. It has a system of islands, lagoons, and bridges, and a rich history of trade, colonialism, and independence.
Learn about the origins, development and colonial history of Lagos, the former capital of Nigeria and the largest city in Africa. Find out how Lagos became a major center of the Atlantic slave trade, a British protectorate and a modern metropolis.
Abuja is the federal capital of Nigeria, located in the center of the country. It was built in the 1980s and replaced Lagos as the capital in 1991. Learn about its geography, population, economy, education, and transport system.
Joined with the protectorate of Southern Nigeria in 1906, it was made the capital of the colony of Nigeria in 1914. It was the capital (1960–91) of independent Nigeria until Abuja became the new capital. It is a major trade and industrial centre.
Lagos is a state in southwestern Nigeria, on the coast of the Bight of Benin. It was the national capital until 1991, when Abuja replaced it, but it remains the country's leading commercial and industrial city.
Lagos is the largest city and the most populous urban area in Nigeria, with over 26 million people. It was the national capital until 1991, when it was moved to Abuja, but it remains the financial and cultural center of the country.
Lagos (Yoruba: Èkó) is the most populous city in Nigeria, spreading out across two main islands and onto the mainland. It is the country's financial capital, and is famous throughout Africa for its music scene.
Although Nigeria gained independence in 1960, a two-and-a-half year civil war broke out in 1967, after which huge waves of refugees and migrants from other African countries flooded into Lagos. Formerly the capital of Nigeria, the city's problems with overpopulation prompted the creation of the city of Abuja, in the center of the country, to replace Lagos as national capital.
In 1960, Lagos became the capital of a newly-independent Nigeria. In the years after independence the city’s population ballooned from less 100,000 in 1963 to nearly 2.5 million in 1974 as people were drawn in from the country seeking work, education, and freedom from ethnic and religious conflict.