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Lagos state is made up of five administrative divisions, namely, Ikorodu, Ikeja, Epe, Badagry, and Lagos Island, with Ikeja being the Capital. The five divisions consist of a total of 20 Local Government Areas and 37 Local Council Development Areas (LCDAs). [1] [2] [3]
Upon independence in 1960, Lagos remained as the capital with much of the city forming the Federal Capital Territory while the rest of modern-day Lagos State was a part of the Western Region until 1967 when the region was split and the area became Lagos State. [27] Economically, Lagos State is one of the fastest-growing urban areas in the world.
Lagos. 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, strictly within the defined city limits, a list for "urban area" population, and another list for the population within metropolitan areas.
Populated coastal places in Lagos State (1 C, 7 P) Pages in category "Populated places in Lagos State" The following 32 pages are in this category, out of 32 total.
Lagos, Nigeria is the second largest city in Africa and one of the primary economic hubs for the continent. Cairo, Egypt is the third largest city in Africa and the largest one in the Arab world. Riverside of Giza, a mega-suburb of Cairo and the second-largest city in Egypt with over 9 million inhabitants.
It comprises six states — Ekiti, Lagos, Ogun, Ondo, Osun, and Oyo. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] It makes up part of Yorubaland in Nigeria, with Kwara and parts of Kogi completing it. The zone stretches along the Atlantic seaboard from the international border with Benin Republic in the west to the South South in the east with the North Central to the north.
Lagos Island (Yoruba: Ìsàlẹ̀ Èkó) is the principal and central Local Government Area (LGA) in Lagos, Nigeria. It was the capital of Lagos State until 1957. [2] It is part of the Lagos Division. [3] As of the preliminary 2006 Nigerian census, the LGA had a population of 209,437 within an area of just 8.7 km 2. The LGA only covers the ...
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):