Lagos Island
Lagos Island 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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: local government area of Nigeria with 209,000 residents
- Description: local government area of Nigeria
- Also known as: “Lagos Island West”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Tinubu Square and Lagos Central Mosque.
Tinubu Square
Park
Photo: Jeremy Weate, CC BY 2.0.
Tinubu Square, formerly Independence Square, is an open space landmark located in Broad Street, Lagos Island, Lagos State, Nigeria named after the Yoruba slave trader, merchant, and aristocrat Madam Efunroye Tinubu.
Lagos Central Mosque
Mosque
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Lagos Central Mosque is an important jum'at mosque in Lagos Island and home of the Chief Imam of Lagos. It is located along the busy Nnamdi Azikiwe Street.
Cathedral Church of Christ
Church
Photo: Sho photography, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Cathedral Church of Christ Marina, Lagos is an Anglican cathedral on Lagos Island, Lagos, Nigeria.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ijora.
Ijora
Ijora is a small district in Lagos State. 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 Ijora of today, which is now an industrial estate.Lagos Island
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yoruba—“Lagos Island” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جزيرة جزيرة لاغوس”
- Arabic: “جزيرة لاغوس”
- Catalan: “Illa de Lagos”
- Cebuano: “Lagos Island Local Government Area”
- Chinese: “Lagos Island”
- Chinese: “拉各斯岛”
- Dutch: “Lagos Island”
- Esperanto: “Lagosa Insulo”
- French: “île de Lagos”
- French: “Île Lagos”
- German: “Lagos Island”
- Gun: “Lopo Awọnlin Tọn”
- Hausa: “Lagos Island”
- Hausa: “LGA”
- Hausa: “Tsibirin Lagos”
- Hebrew: “אי לאגוס”
- Igbo: “Lagos Island”
- Italian: “Lagos Island”
- Japanese: “ラゴス島”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Lagos Island”
- Portuguese: “Ilha de Lagos”
- Portuguese: “Lagos”
- Russian: “Остров Лагос”
- Spanish: “Isla de Lagos”
- Tatar: “Лагос утравы”
- Urdu: “لاگوس آئی لینڈ”
- Yoruba: “Erékùṣù Èkó”
- Yoruba: “Lagos Island”
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