Ikeja

Ikeja is the capital of Lagos state in . Its population in 2022 was about 470,000. Before the emergence of military rule in the early 1980s, Ikeja is a well-planned, clean and quiet residential and commercial town with shopping malls, pharmacies and government Reservation Areas.
  • City with 861,000 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of 40 metres (131 feet)
  • Description: local government area and capital of Lagos State, Nigeria

Places of Interest

Highlights include Lagos State University Teaching Hospital and Ikeja Bus Terminal.
is located at Ikeja, the capital city of .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Magodo and Ojota.
is in , Southwest Nigeria.
is a town in , Southwest Nigeria.

Ikeja

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Latitude
6.6016° or 6° 36′ 6″ north
Longitude
3.3516° or 3° 21′ 6″ east
UN/LOCODE
NG IKE
Open location code
6FR5J922+MJ
Open­Street­Map ID
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
Wiki­data ID

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In Other Languages

From Amharic to Yoruba—“Ikeja” goes by many names.
  • Amharic: “ኢከጃ”
  • Arabic: “إيكيجا”
  • Asturian: “Ikeja”
  • Azerbaijani: “İkeca”
  • Azerbaijani: “Ikeja”
  • Belarusian: “Ікэджа”
  • Bengali: “ইকেজা”
  • Catalan: “Ikeja”
  • Cebuano: “Ikeja (distrito)”
  • Cebuano: “Ikeja (kapital sa estado)”
  • Cebuano: “Ikeja”
  • Chinese: “伊凯贾”
  • Chinese: “伊凱賈”
  • Chinese: “伊基贾”
  • Croatian: “Ikeja”
  • Dagbani: “Ikeja”
  • Dutch: “Ikeja”
  • Esperanto: “Ikeja”
  • Finnish: “Ikeja”
  • French: “Ikeja”
  • German: “Ikeja”
  • Gun: “Ikeja”
  • Hausa: “Ikeja”
  • Hindi: “इकेजा”
  • Igbo: “Ikeja”
  • Indonesian: “Ikeja”
  • Italian: “Ikeja”
  • Japanese: “イケジャ”
  • Javanese: “Ikeja”
  • Kazakh: “Икеджа”
  • Kirghiz: “Икеджа”
  • Korean: “이케자”
  • Malagasy: “Ikeja”
  • Malay: “Ikeja”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Ikeja”
  • Nigerian Pidgin: “Ikeja”
  • Northern Frisian: “Ikeja”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Ikeja”
  • Norwegian: “Ikeja”
  • Nupe-Nupe-Tako: “Ikeja”
  • Oromo: “Ikeja”
  • Panjabi: “ਇਕੇਜਾ”
  • Persian: “اکجا”
  • Persian: “ایکجا”
  • Polish: “Ikeja”
  • Portuguese: “Ikeja”
  • Pushto: “اکیجا”
  • Romanian: “Ikeja”
  • Russian: “Икеджа”
  • Slovenian: “Ikeja”
  • Somali: “Ikeja”
  • South Azerbaijani: “ایکجا”
  • Spanish: “Ikeja”
  • Swahili: “Ikeja”
  • Swedish: “Ikeja”
  • Tajik: “Икеджа”
  • Tatar: “Икеджа”
  • Turkish: “Ikeja”
  • Tyap: “Ikeja”
  • Ukrainian: “Ікеджа”
  • Urdu: “اکیجا”
  • Uzbek: “Ikeja”
  • Yoruba: “Ikeja”

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