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: Tijl Vercaemer, CC BY 2.5.
Popular Destinations
Lagos Island
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Lagos Island is an island and district in Lagos, containing a central business district.
Destinations
Agege
Photo: Dolapo Falola, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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.
Ajah
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Ajah is a district under Eti-Osa local government in Lagos State, Southwest Nigeria.
Victoria Island
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.Ebute Metta
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Ebute Metta is a neighbourhood in Lagos State. Ebute Metta is a Yoruba word that means "the three harbours" which was used in reference to Iddo, Otto, and Oyingbo.
Okota
Okota is in Lagos State. Okota is an area of Lagos in Lagos State, Southwest Nigeria.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.Apapa
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Apapa is a Local Government Area in Lagos, located to the west of Lagos Island.
Lagos City
- Type: City with 10,400,000 residents
- Description: largest city in Nigeria
- Categories: port settlement, big city, metropolitan area, megacity, million city 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
- Bashkir: Лагос
- Basque: Lagos
- Belarusian: Лагас
- Bengali: লেগোস
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Eko
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- लेगोस
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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.