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Dhaka is a megacity, and has a population of 10.2 million residents as of 2024, and a population of over 23.9 million residents in Dhaka Metropolitan Area. [ 22 ] [ 14 ] [ 23 ] It is widely considered to be the most densely populated built-up urban area in the world.
Map of Nigerian states by population density The following table presents a listing of Nigeria 's 36 states ranked in order of their total population based on the 2006 Census figures, [ 1 ] as well as their 2019 projected populations, which were published by the National Bureau of Statistics .
The total population in sub-Saharan Africa is projected to increase to almost one billion people, making it the most populated region outside of South-Central Asia. [30] According to the United Nations, the population of Nigeria will reach 375 million by 2050. Nigeria might then be the 3rd most populous country in the world.
The Greater Dhaka region was under the kingdom of Vanga and Gangaridai in ancient period. [8] Archaeological excavations in 2017–2018 inside the former Old Dhaka Central Jail on Nazimuddin Road in Old Dhaka revealed some glazed and rolled potteries which are similar to what were found in ancient Mahasthangarh and, Wari-Bateshwar ruins in Bangladesh, and other ruins in India, Malaysia ...
Kinshasa, the largest city in the Democratic Republic of the Congo as well as in Africa, is the nation's financial and economic centre. 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.
As of 2019, the total population of Africa is estimated at 9 billion, representing 16 percent of the world's population. [13] According to UN estimates, the population of Africa may reach 2.49 billion by 2050 (about 26% of the world's total) and 4.28 billion by 2100 (about 39% of the world's total). [13]
The military and the Nigerian state, 1966–1993: a study of the strategies of political power control. Trenton, New Jersey: Africa World Press. ISBN 978-1-59221-568-3. Solomon Akhere Benjamin (1999). The 1996 state and local government reorganizations in Nigeria. Ibadan: Nigerian Institute of Social and Economic Research. ISBN 978-181-238-9.
In sub-Saharan Africa in 1960 "only one city, Johannesburg, had a population of one million;...in 2009, there were fifty-two cities with such large populations." [ 2 ] The Nigerian city of Lagos that in 1963 had 665,000 inhabitants (Rakodi, 1997) and 8.7 million in 2000 is expected to become the world's 11th biggest city by 2015 with 16 million ...