Rank State km²
1 Niger State 95,363
2 Borno State 92,898
3 Taraba State 54,473
4 Kaduna State 46,053
5 Bauchi State 45,837
6 Yobe State 45,502
7 Zamfara State 39,762
8 Adamawa State 36,917
9 Kwara State 36,825
10 Kebbi State 36,800
11 Benue State 34,059
12 Plateau State 30,913
13 Kogi State 29,833
14 Oyo State 28,454
15 Nasarawa State 27,117
16 Sokoto State 25,973
17 Katsina State 24,192
18 Jigawa State 23,154
19 Cross River State 20,156
20 Kano State 20,131
21 Gombe State 18,768
22 Edo State 17,802
23 Delta State 17,698
24 Ogun State 16,762
25 Ondo State 15,500
26 Rivers State 11,077
27 Bayelsa State 10,773
28 Osun State 9,251
- Federal Capital Territory 7,315
29 Enugu State 7,161
30 Akwa Ibom State 7,081
31 Ekiti State 6,353
32 Abia State 6,320
33 Ebonyi State 5,670
34 Imo State 5,100
35 Anambra State 4,844
36 Lagos State 3,345. Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nigerian_states_by_area

Cool

Lagos is small but mighty in Nigerian terms.

Lols.. EKO, small but mighty!

Most ahithophels aka Yorubbas actually think Lagos is big especially when they bring SE in the equation. Not knowing that the smallest state in SE...Anambra is 3x of Lagos in actual landmass considering half of Lagos is water. If Lagos houses nearly 30 million today at only 20% usage of its actual landmass, Anambra will house over 200 million at 20% usage of its landmass with existing high-rise building plan. It's currently only at 10% usage!

Quick facts for the Ahithophels
Israel is only the size of Cross river at roughly 20,770 km² yet powerful and successful.
Luxembourg is only 2,590 km² which half of Anambra yet successful.

The guy below is an illiterate...doesn't know the difference between a nominal landmass and actual landmass. Lagos Nominal landmass is 3345km2 but Actual landmass excluding water is 1670km2. HALF OF LAGOS STATE IS WATER. ONLY 1/8 OF ANAMBRA IS WATER!

Clinton9000:
Most ahithophels aka Yorubbas actually think Lagos is big especially when they bring SE in the equation. Not knowing that the smallest state in SE...Anambra is 3x of Lagos in actual landmass considering half of Lagos is water. If Lagos houses nearly 30 million today at only 20% usage of its actual landmass, Anambra will houses over 200 million at 20% usage of it landmass with existing high-rise building plan. It's currently only at 10% usage!

Quick facts for the Ahithophels
Israel is only the size of Cross river at roughly 20,770 km² yet powerful and successful.
Luxembourg is only 2,590 km² which half of Anambra yet successful.

Are you commenting on this post or another post?

Anambra is nxt to lagos in landmass. Minus the water part. the diffrence btw the two states is about 1,500 sqkm or 33%.

But take note too that erosion is eroding most of the eastern states, with anambra inclusive.

jumper524:
Rank State km²
1 Niger State 95,363
2 Borno State 92,898
3 Taraba State 54,473
4 Kaduna State 46,053
5 Bauchi State 45,837
6 Yobe State 45,502
7 Zamfara State 39,762
8 Adamawa State 36,917
9 Kwara State 36,825
10 Kebbi State 36,800
11 B'enue State 34,059
12 Plateau State 30,913
13 Kogi State 29,833
14 Oyo State 28,454
15 Nasarawa State 27,117
16 Sokoto State 25,973
17 Katsina State 24,192
18 Jigawa State 23,154
19 Cross River State 20,156
20 Kano State 20,131
21 Gombe State 18,768
22 Edo State 17,802
23 Delta State 17,698
24 Ogun State 16,762
25 Ondo State 15,500
26 Rivers State 11,077
27 Bayelsa State 10,773
28 Osun State 9,251
- Federal Capital Territory 7,315
29 Enugu State 7,161
30 Akwa Ibom State 7,081
31 Ekiti State 6,353
32 Abia State 6,320
33 Ebonyi State 5,670
34 Imo State 5,100
35 Anambra State 4,844
36 Lagos State 3,345. Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nigerian_states_by_area

Enugu State 7,161
Abia State 6,320
Ebonyi State 5,670
Imo State 5,100
Anambra State 4,844
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Total =======29,095 sqkm.

Which is comparable to one of the smaller states in the north. Plateau State 30,913 OR Kogi State 29,833

North central
Niger State 95,363
Kwara State 36,825
Benue State 34,059
Plateau State 30,913
Kogi State 29,833
Nasarawa State 27,117
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Total =========254,110

North west'
Kaduna State 46,053
Kebbi State 36,800
Sokoto State 25,973
Katsina State 24,192
Zamfara State 39,762
Jigawa State 23,154
Kano State 20,131
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Total =====216,065 sqkm

North east
Borno State 92,898
Taraba State 54,473
Bauchi State 45,837
Yobe State 45,502
Adamawa State 36,917
Gombe State 18,768
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Total = = = = 294,395

South west
Oyo State 28,454
Ogun State 16,762
Ondo State 15,500
Osun State 9,251
Ekiti State 6,353
Lagos State 3,345.
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Total = = = 79,665 sqkm

South south
Cross River State 20,156
Edo State 17,802
Delta State 17,698
Rivers State 11,077
Bayelsa State 10,773
Akwa Ibom State 7,081
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Total = = = = = 84,587 sqkm

Corrected. Tnx

Ibrahim1975:
CORRECTIONS. 1.North East has 6 States with 294,395 Sqkm. Jigawa state is not part of North East. 2. North West has 7 States with Jigawa inclusive and a total landmass of 216,065 sqkm.

Why then are my Igbo brothers clamouring for more states when the whole of SE is not as big as the smallest state in the North.

Imagine Ebonyi +Imo+ Abia is not as big as my Delta sef.

dafuturis:
Why then are my Igbo brothers clamouring for more states when the whole of SE is not as big as the smallest state in the North.

Imagine Ebonyi +Imo+ Abia is not as big as my Delta sef.

Very good question.

Let me go and find the answer

Clinton9000:
Most ahithophels aka Yorubbas actually think Lagos is big especially when they bring SE in the equation. Not knowing that the smallest state in SE...Anambra is 3x of Lagos in actual landmass considering half of Lagos is water. If Lagos houses nearly 30 million today at only 20% usage of its actual landmass, Anambra will houses over 200 million at 20% usage of it landmass with existing high-rise building plan. It's currently only at 10% usage!

Quick facts for the Ahithophels
Israel is only the size of Cross river at roughly 20,770 km² yet powerful and successful.
Luxembourg is only 2,590 km² which half of Anambra yet successful.

The ever insecure Igbo man whose destiny is determined by the Yorubas who ever remain responsible for his misfortune.
You even had to lie again when the fact you are even quoting shows otherwise?

Igbos and propaganda, a curse sealed in hell.

Save for Enugu that is interjected by 2 states, all the SE states queue in series behind Lagos as the smallest states in Nigeria. As a region, the SE is not up to many states in the country.

I really do not know why the federal government fractured the 2 original states of Anambra and Imo into 5 states. Infact, the single South Eastern state as outlined by Gowon, is all that should have been retained instead of these villages that have resulted from over-fracturing.

Oyo state that is position 14 by size, is about as big as the whole of the SE region, talkless of 13 other states in the country.

South east should just be 2 states

Only in Nigeria would some useless people waste time mouthing off about "land mass" Empty space of land, not habitable, not farmable, and yet designed to be a factor in the revenue sharing formula. Imagine where you have this stuupiid land mass syndrome in the US, Alaska and Montana will be the richest states:

http://state.1keydata.com/states-by-size.php

Thank God, they have smart leaders in the US and not you chop I chop useless shortsighted politicians, craving their next meal at all cost. When did 'land mass' become a factor in Nigerian politics?

Clinton9000:
Most ahithophels aka Yorubbas actually think Lagos is big especially when they bring SE in the equation. Not knowing that the smallest state in SE...Anambra is 3x of Lagos in actual landmass considering half of Lagos is water. If Lagos houses nearly 30 million today at only 20% usage of its actual landmass, Anambra will houses over 200 million at 20% usage of it landmass with existing high-rise building plan. It's currently only at 10% usage!

Quick facts for the Ahithophels
Israel is only the size of Cross river at roughly 20,770 km² yet powerful and successful.
Luxembourg is only 2,590 km² which half of Anambra yet successful.

As you compare the two smallest states Lagos and Anambra with citing that half of Lagos is water, you note that not every square inch of Anambra is habitable as there are areas dealing with the erosion menace likewise communities that are flood plains.

Take Nkwoaku in Achalla town for example, that area is thousands of hectares but a flood plain as it gets to some months during the course of the year the water level become neck-deep and from October it begins to recede and becomes dry from late November till about April. This is borne from personal experience there as l was involved in some Agric projects there for 2 years.

Size is not the issue but the output. Lagos which is the smallest State is still almost 5 times the size of Singapore which is a first world economy!

See the North with about 80% of the Country's landmass but their ignorance convinces them that they must destroy farms in the South in order to feed their cows. When knowledge is not linked to natural resources it becomes worthless.

Going by landmass, some people are like minorities in Nigeria.

naijaking1:
Only in Nigeria would some useless people waste time mouthing off about "land mass" Empty space of land, not habitable, not farmable, and yet designed to be a factor in the revenue sharing formula. Imagine where you have this stuupiid land mass syndrome in the US, Alaska and Montana will be the richest states:

http://state.1keydata.com/states-by-size.php

Thank God, they have smart leaders in the US and not you chop I chop useless shortsighted politicians, craving their next meal at all cost. When did 'land mass' become a factor in Nigerian politics?

Just a hunch....... you're from the SE, smallest landlocked region in Nigeria. 50% erosion, 50% dust. Not economically viable. No seaport. Not agriculturally viable, else you wouldn't have lied about hawking ugwu. The most neglected region in the South. The region that offers nothing to Nigeria, but claims "SS/SE" oil - even though SE produces 3% oil, while SS produces more than 60% of Nigeria's oil. The only majority group that needs to attach itself to an oil-producing minority group before they can have a sense of relevance.

Just a hunch jare.

I'm proud to be from the SW, a region that controls more than 80% of Nigeria's non-oil producing revenue.

Now I know the REAL reason why Ojukwu forcefully made the SS secede with him in 1967.

Chai SE blaming yorubas again for their small landmass.

SE is truly 5% in everything
They are minority


South south should adopt south east
Minority in everything




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FanYogo1:



Just a hunch....... you're from the SE, smallest landlocked region in Nigeria. 50% erosion, 50% dust. Not economically viable. No seaport. Not agriculturally viable, else you wouldn't have lied about hawking ugwu. The most neglected region in the South. The region that offers nothing to Nigeria, but claims "SS/SE" oil - even though SE produces 3% oil, while SS produces more than 60% of Nigeria's oil. The only majority group that needs to attach itself to an oil-producing minority group before they can have a sense of relevance.

Just a hunch jare.

I'm proud to be from the SW, a region that controls more than 80% of Nigeria's non-oil producing revenue.

1.74% and NOT 3%.
Oil in SE combined is not even up to the oil produced in Edo state.

princey83:
1.74% and NOT 3%. Oil in SE combined is not even up to the oil produced in Edo state.

na wah o.

This is not good at all. . .

some people will come here, read and just waka pass without dropping a comment. . .

it won't be "sweet"

DaudaAbu:


Enugu State 7,161
Abia State 6,320
Ebonyi State 5,670
Imo State 5,100
Anambra State 4,844
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Total =======29,095 sqkm.

Which is comparable to one of the smaller states in the north. Plateau State 30,913 OR Kogi State 29,833

there is an error in ur calculation on eastern states

It seems that many Yorubas do not know that landmass has nothing to do with state creation, it is all about population. Nobody cares about landmass, what is important is capacity. Borno is the size of Britain but Britain is the 5th richest country in the world. I should add that Anioma should have been the 6th Igbo state.

But all these things do not matter, if there is either a return to real federalism/Regionalism (or Biafra), the first thing we Igbos are going to do is abolish all the states in our area leaving just the Local Governments. State creation started by Gowon is one of the worst things to happen in Nigeria

Even FCT is bigger than Lagos . Remarkable how that little piece of land is one of the biggest economies in West Africa

gartamanta:
It seems that many Yorubas do not know that landmass has nothing to do with state creation, it is all about population. Nobody cares about landmass, what is important is capacity. Borno is the size of Britain but Britain is the 5th richest country in the world. I should add that Anioma should have been the 6th Igbo state.

But all these things do not matter, if there is either a return to real federalism/Regionalism (or Biafra), the first thing we Igbos are going to do is abolish all the states in our area leaving just the Local Governments. State creation started by Gowon is one of the worst things to happen in Nigeria

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It's embarrassing that SE, a region so small and requires less resources to develop, is second to the North in backwardness.

Wow, i never knew my state (Taraba) is that big in terms of land mass.

Lagos Na small town nah, no shock OP

Lagos, the only state with two names.
Small but mighty

Lagos atakere wonu ado