South West Nigeria
Lagos State
Mushin

Mushin

Mushin is a Local Government Area in , Nigeria. It is located 10 km north of the city core, adjacent to the main road to , and is largely a congested residential area with inadequate sanitation and low-quality housing.
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  • Type: Suburb with 199,000 residents
  • Description: suburb of Lagos and local government area in Nigeria
  • Also known as: “Mushin Halt”, “Mushin, Lagos”, and “Mushin, LGA”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Ladipo Market and Lagos University Teaching Hospital.

Marketplace
also known as Ladipo Auto Spare Parts Market is a market located in Mushin local Government area of . In recent times, has been the hub for political campaigns and social awareness gatherings due to the mass population of people in the market.

Hospital
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is a tertiary hospital established in 1962 and is located in Idi-Araba, , , Nigeria. The teaching hospital is affiliated with the University of Lagos College of Medicine.

Hospital
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The , Igbobi, Lagos, is a hospital in , . It is colloquially referred to simply as "Igbobi" or "Igbobi hospital". In 2019, the hospital partnered with SIGN Fracture Care International, US to tackle limb deformity.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Surulere and Somolu.

Photo: S.aderogba, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a local government area located on the mainland in , Nigeria. It has an area of 23 km2. At the 2006 census, there were 503,975 inhabitants, with a population density of 21,864 inhabitants per square kilometer.

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is a local government area in . It is located in Southwest , North of Lagos city, and its administrative headquarters is located on Durosimi Street.

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is in Lagos. is a suburb in Surulere local government area of Lagos State, South West Nigeria. The town is known for its crowded setting as depicted in Fela's 1975 Confusion album, is regarded as one of the busiest places in Lagos.

Mushin

Latitude
6.5276° or 6° 31′ 39″ north
Longitude
3.3509° or 3° 21′ 3″ east
Population
199,000
Elevation
23 metres (75 feet)
United Nations Location Code
NG MUS
Open location code
6FR5G9H2+28
Open­Street­Map ID
node 13439326189
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­suburb
Geo­Names ID
2329660
Wiki­data ID
Q3139881
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Catalan to Yoruba—“Mushin” goes by many names.
  • Catalan: “Mushin”
  • Cebuano: “Mushin (distrito sa Nigeria)”
  • Cebuano: “Mushin”
  • Chinese: “Mushin”
  • Chinese: “穆辛”
  • Esperanto: “Muŝin (Niĝerio)”
  • Esperanto: “Muŝin”
  • French: “Mushin”
  • French: “Muṣin”
  • Fulah: “Mushin, Lagos”
  • German: “Mushin”
  • German: “Muṣin”
  • Hausa: “Mushin (Nijeriya)”
  • Hausa: “Mushin”
  • Igbo: “Mushin, Lagos”
  • Igbo: “Mushin”
  • Italian: “Mushin”
  • Italian: “Muṣin”
  • Japanese: “ムシン”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Mushin”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Muṣin”
  • Nigerian Pidgin: “Mushin”
  • Polish: “Mushin”
  • Polish: “Muṣin”
  • Portuguese: “Mushin”
  • Portuguese: “Muṣin”
  • Russian: “Мушин (Нигерия)”
  • Russian: “Мушин”
  • Spanish: “Mushin”
  • Spanish: “Muṣin”
  • Ukrainian: “Muṣin”
  • Ukrainian: “Мушин”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Mushin, Nigeria”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Mushin”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Muṣin”
  • Yoruba: “Agbègbè Ìjọba Ìbílẹ̀ Mushin”
  • Yoruba: “Mushin”
  • Yoruba: “Muṣin”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Mushin”. Photo: Kaizenify, CC BY-SA 4.0.