Lagos City
Lagos 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.Photo: Solasly, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Popular Destinations
Eti-Osa
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Eti-Osa is a Local Government Area of Lagos State in Nigeria.
Amuwo-Odofin
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Amuwo-Odofin is a community of 1.5 million people in Lagos City.
Destinations
Alimosho
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Alimosho is a local government area in Lagos City, South West Nigeria.
Agege
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Agege is in South West Nigeria. It's a suburb of half a million people in Ikeja division which is the capital of Lagos State.
Lagos Island
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Lagos Island is an island and district in Lagos, containing a central business district.
Apapa
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Apapa is a Local Government Area in Lagos, located to the west of Lagos Island.
Ojo
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Ojo is a town in Lagos. Nigeria. It is a part of the Lagos Metropolitan Area.
Kosofe
Kosofe is in Lagos City. Commerce is an important part of the economy of Kosofe LGA, and there are many markets in the region, including the Vinukonu and Ojota markets.Surulere
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Surulere is a residential and commercial Local Government Area located on the mainland of Lagos in Lagos State, Nigeria, with an area of 23 km2.
Somolu
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Somolu is a local government area in Lagos. It is located in Southwest Nigeria, North of Lagos city, and its administrative headquarters is located on Durosimi Street.
Victoria Island
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Victoria Island is an affluent area that encompasses a former island of the same name, neighbouring Lagos Island, Ikoyi and the end of the Lekki Peninsula by the Lagos Lagoon.
Mainland
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The Mainland refers to a vast region of Lagos which is on the African mainland and not on islands.
Iyana-ipaja
Iyana-ipaja is an area in Lagos State, South West Nigeria.Oshodi
Oshodi is a town in Lagos City, and was popular for its market which was one of the biggest market in Lagos until its demolition in 2016.Egbeda
Egbeda is an area in Lagos State, Southwest Nigeria.Ifako
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Ifako, also known as Ifako-Ijaye, is a town in Lagos City, Southwest Nigeria.
Ogba
Ogba is in Lagos State, South West Nigeria. It is north of Ikeja, a densely populated area with a mix of housing for high- and low-income earners.Ajegunle
Ajegunle is a town in Lagos State, Southwest Nigeria.Lekki
Lekki is a city in Lagos State, Southwest Nigeria. This article describes the parts of Lekki that are in the Ibeju-Lekki local government area.Okota
Okota is in Lagos State. Okota is an area of Lagos in Lagos State, Southwest Nigeria.Ojuelegba
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Ojuelegba is in Lagos. Ojuelegba is a suburb in Surulere local government area of Lagos State, South West Nigeria.
Isolo
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Isolo is an area of Lagos in Lagos State, Southwest Nigeria.
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Notable Places in the Area
Nigerian National Museum
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The Nigerian National Museum is a national museum of Nigeria, located in the city of Lagos.
Onikan Stadium
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The Mobolaji Johnson Arena is a multi-purpose stadium in Lagos.
Freedom Park
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Freedom Park is a memorial and leisure park area in the middle of downtown Lagos in Lagos Island, Nigeria which was formerly Her Majesty's Broad Street Prison.
Localities in the Area
Ijora
Ijora is a small district in Lagos State. The area used to be a swampy and water-logged area before the reclamation of land and further reconstruction was done on it to make it the Ijora of today, which is now an industrial estate.Makoko
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Makoko is an informal settlement across the 3rd Mainland Bridge located on the coast of mainland Lagos, Nigeria.
Lagos City
- Type: City with 10,400,000 residents
- Description: largest city in Nigeria
- Categories: port settlement, big city, metropolitan area, megacity and locality
- Location: Lagos State, South West Nigeria, Nigeria, West Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
6.4551° or 6° 27' 18" northLongitude
3.3942° or 3° 23' 39" eastPopulation
10,400,000Elevation
11 metres (36 feet)IATA airport code
LOSUnited Nations Location Code
NG LOSOpen Location Code
6FR5F94V+2MOpenStreetMap ID
node 27565124OpenStreetMap Feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
2332459Wikidata ID
Q8673Lagos City Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Afrikaans: Lagos
- Albanian: Lagos
- Amharic: ሌጎስ
- Arabic: Lagos
- Arabic: لاغوس
- Aragonese: Lagos
- Armenian: Լագոս
- Arpitan: Lagos
- Asturian: Lagos
- Azerbaijani: Laqos
- Balinese: Lagos
- Bashkir: Лагос
- Basque: Lagos
- Belarusian: Лагас
- Bengali: লেগোস
- Bislama: Lagos
- Bosnian: Lagos
- Breton: Lagos
- Bulgarian: Лагос
- Burmese: လေးဂို့စ်မြို့
- Catalan: Lagos
- Cebuano: Lagos (kapital sa distrito)
- Cebuano: Lagos
- Central Kurdish: لاگووس
- Central Kurdish: لاگۆس
- Chechen: Лагос
- Chinese: Lagos
- Chinese: 拉各斯
- Chinese: 拉哥斯
- Chuvash: Лагос
- Cornish: Lagos
- Croatian: Lagos
- Czech: Lagos
- Dagbani: Lagos
- Danish: Lagos
- Dotyali: लागोस
- Dutch: Lagos
- Eastern Mari: Лагос
- Egyptian Arabic: لاجوس
- English: Lagos
- Esperanto: Lagoso
- Estonian: Lagos
- Extremaduran: Lagos
- Faroese: Lagos
- Fiji Hindi: Lagos
- Finnish: Lagos
- French: Ibadan Lagos Kano
- French: Lagos
- Fulah: Lagos
- Galician: Lagos, Nixeria
- Galician: Lagos
- Georgian: ლაგოსი
- German: Lagos
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: Lagos
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: Lagos City
- Greek: Λάγος
- Guarani: Lagos
- Gujarati: લાગોસ
- Gujarati: લેગોસ
- Hausa: Lagos
- Hebrew: לאגוס
- Hindi: लागोस
- Hindi: लागोस्
- Hungarian: Lagos
- Icelandic: Lagos
- Ido: Lagos
- Igbo: Lagos
- Iloko: Lagos
- Inari Sami: Lagos
- Indonesian: Lagos
- Ingush: Лагос
- Interlingua: Lagos
- Interlingue: Lagos
- Irish: Lagos
- Italian: Lagos
- Japanese: ラゴス
- Javanese: Lagos
- Kabiyè: Legɔsɩ
- Kannada: ಲಾಗೊಸ್
- Kannada: ಲಾಗೋಸ್
- Kannada: ಲೆಗೊಸ್
- Kazakh: Лагос
- Kazakh: Лагос қаласы
- Kikuyu: Lagos
- Kirghiz: Лагос шаары
- Korean: 라고스
- Korean: 라구스
- Kurdish: Lagos
- Ladin: Lagos
- Lao: Lagos
- Latin: Lacupolis
- Latvian: Lagosa
- Lezghian: Лагос
- Lingala: Lagos
- Lithuanian: Lagosas
- Lombard: Lagos
- Low German: Lagos (Nigeria)
- Low German: Lagos
- Macedonian: Лагос
- Malagasy: Lagos
- Malay: Lagos
- Malayalam: ലാഗോസ്
- Maltese: Lagos
- Manipuri: ꯂꯥꯒꯣꯁ
- Marathi: लागोस
- Mazanderani: لاگوس
- Min Nan Chinese: Lagos
- Mingrelian: ლაგოსი
- Mirandese: Lagos
- Moksha: Лагос
- Mongolian: Лагос
- Mongolian: ꯂꯥꯒꯣꯁ
- Moroccan Arabic: لاڭوص
- Navajo: Tótaʼ Yadaazʼáhí
- Nigerian Pidgin: Lagos
- Northern Frisian: Lagos
- Northern Sami: Lagos
- Norwegian: Lagos
- Norwegian Bokmål: Lagos
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Lagos
- Nyanja: Lagos
- Occitan (post 1500): Lagos
- Oriya: ଲାଗୋସ
- Ossetian: Лагос
- Panjabi: ਲਾਗੋਸ
- Papiamento: Lagos
- Persian: لاگوس
- Piemontese: Lagos
- Polish: Lagos
- Portuguese: Lagos
- Pushto: لاګوس
- Quechua: Lagos
- Romanian: Lagos
- Russia Buriat: Лагос
- Russian: Лагос
- Rusyn: Лаґос
- Samogitian: Laguosos
- Santali: ᱞᱟᱜᱚᱥ
- Sardinian: Lagos
- Scots: Lagos
- Scottish Gaelic: Lagos
- Serbian: Лагос
- Serbo-Croatian: Lagos
- Shona: Lagos
- Sicilian: Lagos
- Silesian: Lagos
- Sinhala: ලාගොස්
- Skolt Sami: Lagos
- Slovak: Lagos
- Slovenian: Lagos
- Somali: Lagos
- South Azerbaijani: لاقوس
- Spanish: Lagos
- Swahili: Lagos
- Swedish: Lagos
- Swiss German: Lagos
- Tagalog: Lagos
- Tagalog: Lungsod ng Lagos
- Tajik: Лагос
- Tamil: லாகோஸ்
- Tamil: லேகோஸ்
- Tatar: Лагос
- Telugu: లాగోస్
- Thai: เลกอส
- Tosk Albanian: Lagos
- Turkish: Lagos
- Turkmen: Lagos
- Tyap: A̱ko
- Tyap: Legwot
- Ukrainian: Лагос
- Ukrainian: Лаґос
- Urdu: لاگوس
- Uzbek: Lagos
- Venetian: Lagos
- Veps: Lagos
- Vietnamese: Lagos
- Volapük: Lagos
- Waray (Philippines): Lagos
- Welsh: Lagos
- Western Frisian: Lagos
- Western Panjabi: لاگوس
- Wu Chinese: 拉各斯
- Yakut: Лагос
- Yiddish: לאגאס
- Yoruba: Èkó
- Yue Chinese: 拉哥斯
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page Lagos City. Photo: Tijl Vercaemer, CC BY 2.5.