1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Nigeria
Compare this sourced profile of Lagos, Nigeria before planning. Stable fields identify the place; confirm current transport, access and opening details with official sources.
01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Lagos—15,388,000, Africa/Lagos, and source coordinates—from live travel claims. Those fields identify and compare the record; they do not prove current transport, accessibility, census totals, or a City Atlas Club visit.
Wikidata's localized description: largest city and former capital of Nigeria.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Lagos is GeoNames ID 2332459. Its recorded administrative path is Lagos → Nigeria, and GeoNames classifies the place as a second-order administrative seat. Lagos occurs once as a primary city label in this atlas sample; the numeric ID remains the durable source key if names change. The city row itself was updated 2023-10-25; that date belongs to the source record, not to every transport or visitor detail in the real destination.
Within the fixed 1,206-record atlas, Lagos ranks 7 by recorded population. Inside the 30 selected Nigeria entries it ranks 1; inside the 243 entries in its broad region it ranks 3. Its 15,388,000 population value is 16.55 times the 930,000 median for the country cohort and 17.05 times the 902,588 regional median. Lagos falls inside the leading tenth of this atlas's Nigeria population cohort. Lagos's recorded value reaches at least twice the country-cohort median in this snapshot. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Lagos's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Ajegunle at 7.022 km with 550,000 recorded people; Agege at 19.199 km with 683,600 recorded people; Ebute Ikorodu at 19.317 km with 535,619 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 12.295 km. Compared with Ajegunle, Lagos's recorded population is 27.98 times as large. Against Lagos, Ajegunle follows Ajeromi/Ifelodun → Lagos → Nigeria in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Nigeria cohort, uses the shared Africa/Lagos identifier, and carries the same second-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Lagos's. Against Lagos, Agege follows Agege → Lagos → Nigeria in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Nigeria cohort, uses the shared Africa/Lagos identifier, and carries the same second-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Lagos's. Against Lagos, Ebute Ikorodu follows Ikorodu → Lagos → Nigeria in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Nigeria cohort, uses the shared Africa/Lagos identifier, and carries populated place rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Lagos's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 102 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Lagos's nearest-coordinate gap belongs to the tightest tenth of the atlas. This pattern can reveal whether other catalog references are geographically close, but it cannot establish whether a border crossing is possible or practical, or whether rail, road, fare, or journey-time connections exist. Read as one record signature, GeoNames 2332459, the coordinate pair 6.4541 / 3.3947, country rank 1 of 30, and neighbor GeoNames 2566636 at 7.022 km bind Lagos to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Lagos's reference point is 6.4541° north and 3.3947° east. The IANA identifier Africa/Lagos is shared by 30 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA2 is shared by 341 rows. Lagos's row carries a first-order administrative label but no second-order label. Lagos's point falls in the near-equatorial coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Lagos's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Lagos, so the profile preserves that missing value instead of guessing terrain. Together these fields form a reproducible identity check for this page, not a claim about walkability, climate or accessibility.
03Nearby atlas references
Lagos's closest other entries in this atlas are Ajegunle (7.022 km), Agege (19.199 km), Ebute Ikorodu (19.317 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2023-10-25; the atlas checked the dataset 2026-08-04. Available Wikidata fields were verified in the same run.
GeoNames data: CC BY 4.0. Wikidata labels and descriptions: CC0 1.0.