Africa
Nigeria
270 places of 15,000 people or more
The 40 largest
- Lagos15,388,000
- Kano4,910,000
- Ibadan3,649,000
- Abuja2,690,000
- Port Harcourt2,120,000
- Kaduna1,850,000
- Benin City1,782,000
- Onitsha1,553,000
- Aba1,160,000
- Maiduguri1,110,000
- Ilorin1,080,000
- Sokoto1,040,000
- Jos1,040,000
- Zaria980,000
- Enugu950,000
- Warri910,000
- Oyo736,072
- Abeokuta735,000
- Akure730,000
- Bauchi693,700
- Agege683,600
- Katsina670,000
- Osogbo645,000
- Ile-Ife560,000
- Gombe560,000
- Ajegunle550,000
- Owerri545,000
- Calabar540,000
- Ebute Ikorodu535,619
- Saminaka500,000
- Okene479,178
- Ikare465,000
- Yola460,000
- Uyo436,606
- Ado-Ekiti435,000
- Ogbomoso433,030
- Minna425,000
- Lekki401,272
- Bida400,000
- Makurdi390,000
Population from GeoNames, which takes it from national censuses and estimates of different years.