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Apapa

Apapa

Apapa is a Local Government Area in . Tin Can Island Port is located in Apapa. Apapa has about 218,000 residents.
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Photo: Ollie Jones, CC BY 2.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Apapa Amusement Park and Union Bank Building.

Theme park
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The is an amusement park in Lagos, . The park was built in 2008 and it spans an area of approximately 7.7 acres. The park reopened after a three-year closure due to environmental and security reasons, and after a complete makeover in 2015.

Office building
is a skyscraper in . The 28-story building serves as the headquarters of the Union Bank of Nigeria.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Ijora and Ajegunle.

is a small district in . The area used to be a swampy and water-logged area before the reclamation of land and further reconstruction was done on it to make it the of today, which is now an industrial estate.

is a town in , Southwest Nigeria. It is located in the Ajeromi-Ifelodun local government area of Lagos. It's often seen as the slum or ghetto of Lagos State.

Photo: Jeremy Weate, CC BY 2.0.
is an island and district in Lagos, containing a central business district. The island is characterized by high-rise buildings and businesses. The island is home to many of the city's largest wholesale marketplaces, and to some important sites.

Apapa

Latitude
6.4469° or 6° 26′ 49″ north
Longitude
3.3622° or 3° 21′ 44″ east
Population
218,000
Elevation
9 metres (30 feet)
IATA airport code
QAP
United Nations Location Code
NG APP
Open location code
6FR5C9W6+QV
Open­Street­Map ID
node 13236892516
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­suburb
Geo­Names ID
2349656
Wiki­data ID
Q617618
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yoruba—“Apapa” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “جزيرة فيكتوريا”
  • Bengali: “আপাপা”
  • Cebuano: “Apapa (kapital sa distrito)”
  • Cebuano: “Apapa”
  • Chinese: “Apapa”
  • Chinese: “阿帕帕”
  • Danish: “Apapa”
  • Dutch: “Apapa”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جزيرة فيكتوريا”
  • Esperanto: “Apapa”
  • Finnish: “Apapa”
  • French: “Apapa”
  • German: “Apapa”
  • Greek: “Απάπα”
  • Gujarati: “અપાપા”
  • Hausa: “Apapa”
  • Igbo: “Apapa”
  • Indonesian: “Apapa”
  • Irish: “Apapa”
  • Italian: “Apapa”
  • Japanese: “アパパ”
  • Kannada: “ಅಪಾಪಾ”
  • Korean: “아파파”
  • Latvian: “Apapa”
  • Lithuanian: “Apapa”
  • Malay: “Apapa”
  • Marathi: “अपापा”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Apapa”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Apapa”
  • Persian: “آپاپا”
  • Polish: “Apapa”
  • Portuguese: “Apapa”
  • Russian: “Остров Виктория”
  • Sinhala: “අපපා”
  • Spanish: “Apapa”
  • Swedish: “Apapa”
  • Tamil: “அப்பாபா”
  • Telugu: “అపాప”
  • Thai: “อพาพา”
  • Turkish: “Apapa”
  • Ukrainian: “Апапа”
  • Urdu: “اپاپا”
  • Venetian: “Apapa”
  • Vietnamese: “Apapa”
  • Yoruba: “Apapa”

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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 Wikivoyage page “Apapa”. Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.