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List Of Nigerian Cities By Population by Nobody: 3:46pm On Jan 07, 2016 |
Working on an assignment I felt I should share. According to CIA, Wiki, Geonames.org and studying the United Nations Africa Urbanization Prospects of Nigeria book, these are the most populated cities in Nigeria Rank City State Population 1 Lagos Lagos State 13,400,000[2] 2 Kano Kano State 3,626,068 3 Abuja FCT 3,000,000 4 Ibadan Oyo State 2,550,593 5 Kaduna Kaduna State 1,652,844 6 Port Harcourt Rivers State 1,320,214 7 Aba Abia State 1,300,000 8 Ogbomosho Oyo State 1,200,000 9 Maiduguri Borno State 1,197,497 10 Benin City Edo State 1,147,188 11 Zaria Kaduna State 1,018,827 12 Jos Plateau State 900,000 13 Ilorin Kwara State 847,582 14 Enugu Enugu State 722,664 15 Oyo Oyo State 620,400 16 Abeokuta Ogun State 529,700 17 Onitsha Anambra State 509,500 18 Warri Delta State 500,900 19 Sokoto Sokoto State 500,500 20 Okene Kogi State 444,900 21 Calabar Cross River State 431,200 22 Osogbo Osun State 421,000 23 Katsina Katsina State 387,000 24 Akure Ondo State 369,700 25 Ife Osun State 313,400 26 Bauchi Bauchi State 291,600 27 Iseyin Oyo State 286,700 28 Minna Niger State 270,600 29 Makurdi Benue State 249,000 30 Owo Ondo State 243,000 31 Ado Ekiti Ekiti State 241,200 32 Ilesa Osun State 233,900 33 Gombe Gombe State 230,900 34 Umuahia Abia State 230,800 35 Ondo Ondo State 225,800 36 Damaturu Yobe State 223,000 37 Jimeta Adamawa State 218,400 38 Ikot Ekpene Akwa Ibom State 209,400 39 Gusau Zamfara State 201,200 40 Mubi Adamawa State 198,700 41 Sagamu Ogun State 191,500 42 Owerri Imo State 187,600 43 Ugep Cross River State 187,000 44 Ijebu Ode Ogun State 186,700 45 Ise Ekiti Ekiti State 167,100 46 Gboko Benue State 166,400 47 Ilawe Ekiti Ekiti State 160,700 48 Ikare Ondo State 160,600 50 Bida Niger State 159,100 51 Okpoko Anambra State 152,900 52 Awka Anambra State 152,300 53 Sapele Delta State 151,000 54 Ila Osun State 150,700 55 Shaki Oyo State 150,300 56 Ijero Ekiti State 147,300 57 Otukpo Benue State 136,800 58 Kisi Oyo State 130,800 59 Buguma Rivers State 124,200 60 Funtua Katsina State 122,500 61 Abakaliki Ebonyi State 121,700 62 Gbongan Osun State 117,300 63 Lafia Nasarawa State 115,500 64 Igboho Oyo State 115,000 65 Amaigbo Abia State 111,000 66 Gashua Yobe State 109,600 67 Offa Kwara State 105,700 68 Jalingo Taraba State 103,600 69 Bama Borno State 102,800 70 Uyo Akwa Ibom State 102,400 71 Uromi Edo State 101,400 72 Nsukka Enugu State 100,700 73 Okigwe Imo State 100,700 74 Modakeke Osun State 100,500 This data isn't based on sex, religion, tribe or state of origin. They are all just based info gathered by the UN African Urbanization Prospects and the break down according to the most over-populated region in Nigeria are below: The SW = 24,973,123 The Entire North = 11,071,882 The SE = 4,966,757 The SS = 3,581,288 The MD = 2,171,738 This is like a misnomer to investors entering into the country...definitely, you need to site your business to the largest markets. If you were to decide opening a manufacturing business, you definitely which cities you need to go anywhere within the country. Lets share our opinions. 3 Likes
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Re: List Of Nigerian Cities By Population by Nobody: 3:46pm On Jan 07, 2016 |
Above is an Inset of Lagos and Abuja. This is Kano, Oyo, Ogun, Anambra, Rivers and other regions....
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Re: List Of Nigerian Cities By Population by tpiah2: 3:48pm On Jan 07, 2016 |
Somebody asked? |
Re: List Of Nigerian Cities By Population by lionness(f): 3:54pm On Jan 07, 2016 |
the SW takes the crown as usual. Wait...the SE just 4.9m? No wonder the elders say an empty gourd is the noisiest. Hian! 4 Likes |
Re: List Of Nigerian Cities By Population by Pavore9: 3:59pm On Jan 07, 2016 |
Lagos 13.4 million? OP, which year was this data compiled? |
Re: List Of Nigerian Cities By Population by warripekin(m): 4:00pm On Jan 07, 2016 |
These figures are wrong, asaba is not even there, agbo, ughelli, effurun, Udu/aladja etc all from delta are not there. Meanwhile Onitsha is more than 500k plus its adjoining cities. So also owerri. Poor job. |
Re: List Of Nigerian Cities By Population by tpiah2: 4:03pm On Jan 07, 2016 |
I am 100% sure the only reason the op opened the thread is to pass on info about Akure. |
Re: List Of Nigerian Cities By Population by lionness(f): 4:05pm On Jan 07, 2016 |
warripekin: The op gave you references. Check wikipedia...I just did, your listed cities aren't there. You need travel a little more dear and leave that village. 2 Likes |
Re: List Of Nigerian Cities By Population by tpiah2: 4:07pm On Jan 07, 2016 |
lionness: why are you and the op checking the population of nigerian cities? |
Re: List Of Nigerian Cities By Population by lionness(f): 4:10pm On Jan 07, 2016 |
tpiah2: Oh sorry, this is a thread that won't allow you beat your hairy chest as the most powerful in Africa. Lol. This just shows the SW is on a wonderful and progressive course, and it remains the most valid destination for investors. Now I know what Aliko Dangote saw in the region. 3 Likes |
Re: List Of Nigerian Cities By Population by jmoore(m): 4:28pm On Jan 07, 2016 |
Owerri Imo State 187,600 If you have a brain and you believe this, then your brain is of no importance to this planet. |
Re: List Of Nigerian Cities By Population by betterABIAstate: 4:38pm On Jan 07, 2016 |
Owerri is 187,600, joke of the year. |
Re: List Of Nigerian Cities By Population by bokohalal(m): 4:40pm On Jan 07, 2016 |
OP used 2006 estimate for Benin City but 2014 for a place like Aba. Luckily, I have been around Nigeria and there is no way Aba has more people than Benin City. |
Re: List Of Nigerian Cities By Population by bokohalal(m): 4:41pm On Jan 07, 2016 |
lionness:Tpiah2 is a Westerner. You must be new here. 1 Like |
Re: List Of Nigerian Cities By Population by abduljabbar4(m): 4:41pm On Jan 07, 2016 |
Oga where did you get that list from? SW mor populated than the entire North? Joke of the century |
Re: List Of Nigerian Cities By Population by Legitbaba(m): 4:45pm On Jan 07, 2016 |
Na wah oo...u com put dat uncompleted Amaechi Mono rail for ph...na d only pix u see |
Re: List Of Nigerian Cities By Population by WIZGUY69(m): 4:48pm On Jan 07, 2016 |
I am not really happy with the population of my SW, people with little or no value keep trooping to the already congested SW, I think the governors should go back to the drawing board and start doing what fashola did two years ago by deporting people from other regions maybe to upper iweka over heard bridge, kano central park. etc. 2 Likes |
Re: List Of Nigerian Cities By Population by WIZGUY69(m): 4:49pm On Jan 07, 2016 |
abduljabbar4: Yes! Check the population of only Lagos, Ibadan, ife, sagamu and compare it with the northern cities. |
Re: List Of Nigerian Cities By Population by abduljabbar4(m): 4:53pm On Jan 07, 2016 |
WIZGUY69: I have to make a proper research by myself but as for now adontbelieveit |
Re: List Of Nigerian Cities By Population by betterABIAstate: 4:57pm On Jan 07, 2016 |
So op for your mind you think the population of Maiduguri is still up to million. |
Re: List Of Nigerian Cities By Population by benson730: 4:59pm On Jan 07, 2016 |
Why are they scared of adding sate of origin or tribe in the survey...they will be shocked that the Igbos are far higher in number...we make up 60 %of the population of Lagos. So check 6o%of 24.9 million in Lagos,add it to the total number of those in south east of which 99% are Igbos....do the maths . |
Re: List Of Nigerian Cities By Population by tpiah2: 5:08pm On Jan 07, 2016 |
lionness: you dont make sense sweetie. 1 Like |
Re: List Of Nigerian Cities By Population by tpiah2: 5:10pm On Jan 07, 2016 |
benson730: I dont know why they are scared of indicating their true mission. |
Re: List Of Nigerian Cities By Population by Nobody: 5:13pm On Jan 07, 2016 |
Hahahaha. Wrong! Kano is upto 18milla. Meanwhile ebonyi State is 2million. Do the maths |
Re: List Of Nigerian Cities By Population by Nobody: 5:17pm On Jan 07, 2016 |
R2bees:jeez!! wait Onitsha 500k? I'm done.bye |
Re: List Of Nigerian Cities By Population by raumdeuter: 7:19pm On Jan 07, 2016 |
Interesting |
Re: List Of Nigerian Cities By Population by MXrep: 8:18pm On Jan 07, 2016 |
Igbos live in autonomous communites. Each city is meger between numerous towns that maintain a separate identity. For Eg, Modern Onitsha is no longer limited onitsha main town which makes Onitsha North and south LG since the city has swallowed numerous neighboring towns such as Nkpor(Idemili LG), Ogidi (Idemili LG), Obosi (Idemili LG), Nkwelle (Oyi LG), Nsugbe (Oyi LG), Oba (Idemili LG), Odekpe( Ogabaru LG, This is where Onitsha naval outpost is located). etc with dense concentration of highrise appartments but they maintain their original comunity and are not counted as part of Onitsha, but in other places, they all adopt a single name and counted as one entity. Onitsha and its evirons is the most populous part of igboland. PIC Obosi and Nkwelle: Every body calls this places Onitsha except those in the know, but during census their data is captured as seperate entities 2 Likes
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Re: List Of Nigerian Cities By Population by meezynetwork(m): 8:20pm On Jan 07, 2016 |
Is lagos as a whole a state or city? Cos the op just stated the population of lagos state including all the villages and cities in it. And moreover this a very wrong info. It's just a blind guess. No true census in Nigeria. After all during the last election the total votes cast in lagos was not up to three million. And the number eligible voters was not up to 5 million, so where are the people hiding. I will only take data that emanate from Nigeria serious only when it's citizens has national Id and Id numbers. There are so many discrepancies in this info. Imagine ugep in cross river state more populous than awka and Uyo which are state capitals. How many banks or high rise buildings are in ugep? |
Re: List Of Nigerian Cities By Population by Nobody: 8:37pm On Jan 07, 2016 |
aasog1:It goes beyond population. other factors Are considered too |
Re: List Of Nigerian Cities By Population by odogwu125: 11:50pm On Jan 07, 2016 |
lionness:Lol, a mass concentration of shanty rusted roof is nw an achievement? Yorubas live in clusterd settlement while igbos live in dispersed settlement of numerous independent comunities. I dnt kw wen large clusterd settlement became an achievement. Are u blind dat u cant see anything waiting Alico Dangote to come and see it 4 u? Do u kw hw long Dangote is trying Ebonyi but Ibeto is his headache? 1 Like |
Re: List Of Nigerian Cities By Population by ccoolitempa: 11:56pm On Jan 07, 2016 |
lionness: They are all in our lands running from their ravaged lands....sad people.... |
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