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Lagos, 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.
Nigeria. (2006 census) [ note 1 ] Lagos (/ ˈleɪɡɒs / LAY-goss; [ 10 ][ 11 ] also US: / ˈlɑːɡoʊs / LAH-gohss; [ 11 ][ 12 ] Yoruba: Èkó), or Lagos City, is a large metropolitan city in southwestern Nigeria. With an upper population estimate of 21 million, it is the largest city in Nigeria, and the most populous urban area on the ...
Nigeria has five cities with a population of over a million (from largest to smallest): Lagos, Kano, Ibadan, Benin City and Port Harcourt. Lagos is the largest city in Africa, with a population of over 12 million in its urban area. [131]
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, Rivers ...
Ibadan (UK: / ɪˈbædən /, US: / ɪˈbɑːdən /; [ 4 ] Yoruba: Ìbàdàn) is the capital and most populous city of Oyo State, in Nigeria. It is the third-largest city by population in Nigeria after Lagos and Kano, with a total population of 2,649,000 as of 2021, and over 3 million people within its metropolitan area. It is one of the country ...
Abuja (/ ə ˈ b uː dʒ ə /) [4] is the capital and sixth most populous city of Nigeria. [5] 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), [6] [7] [8] a consortium of three American planning and architecture firms made up of Wallace, Roberts ...
Benin City is the capital and largest city of Edo State, southern Nigeria. [3] It is the fourth-largest city in Nigeria according to the 2006 census, after Lagos , Kano , and Ibadan . [ 2 ]
Port Harcourt (Pidgin: Po-ta-kot or Pi-ta-kwa) is the capital and largest city of Rivers State in Nigeria. [14] It is the fifth most populous city in Nigeria after Lagos, Kano, Ibadan and Benin. [15][16] It lies along the Bonny River and is located in the oil rich Niger Delta region. As of 2023, Port Harcourt's urban population is approximately ...