Lagos State
Lagos State is a state in southwestern Nigeria. Of the 36 states, Lagos is the first or second most populous state but is the smallest by area. Bounded to the south by the Bight of Benin and to the west by the international border with the Republic of Benin, Lagos State borders Ogun State to the north and east, making it the only Nigerian state to border only one other state.
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Lagos State
- State of Nigeria with about 11,000,000 residents
- Description: federal state in southwestern Nigeria
- Also known as“Eko”“Lagos”“Lasgidi”
- Neighbors: Ogun State
- Location
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Latitude of center
6.5377° or 6° 32′ 16″ north
Longitude of center
3.3522° or 3° 21′ 8″ east
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Yue Chinese—“Lagos State” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ላጎስ”
- Arabic: “لاگوس”
- Arabic: “ولاية لاغوس”
- Arabic: “ولاية لاگوس”
- Arabic: “ولايه لاغوس”
- Armenian: “Լագոս”
- Azerbaijani: “Laqos ştatı”
- Basque: “Lagos Estatua”
- Belarusian: “Лагас, штат”
- Belarusian: “Лагас”
- Belarusian: “штат Лагас”
- Bengali: “লাগোস রাজ্য”
- Bengali: “লেগোস”
- Bislama: “Lagos State”
- Bulgarian: “Лагос”
- Catalan: “Estat de Lagos”
- Cebuano: “Lagos State”
- Central Kanuri: “Lagos”
- Chinese: “拉各斯州”
- Chinese: “拉哥斯州”
- Croatian: “Lagos (država)”
- Croatian: “Lagos”
- Czech: “Lagos”
- Danish: “Lagos”
- Dutch: “Lagos”
- Esperanto: “Lagosa Ŝtato”
- Esperanto: “Lagosa”
- Esperanto: “Ŝtato Lagoso”
- Esperanto: “subŝtato Lagos”
- Esperanto: “subŝtato Lagoso”
- Estonian: “Lagos State”
- Estonian: “Lagose osariik”
- Finnish: “Lagos”
- French: “État de Lagos”
- French: “Lagos”
- Fulah: “Diiwal Ikko”
- Fulah: “Lagos”
- Galician: “Estado de Lagos”
- Georgian: “ლაგოსის შტატი”
- German: “Lagos”
- Gun: “Ayimatẹn Awọnlin Tọn”
- Hausa: “Jahar legas”
- Hausa: “Lagos”
- Hebrew: “לאגוס”
- Hindi: “लेगोस राज्य”
- Hungarian: “Lagos”
- Igala: “Lagos State”
- Igbo: “Lagos State”
- Igbo: “Lagos”
- Igbo: “Nkeji Ochíchííwu Lagos”
- Igbo: “Ȯra Lagos”
- Inari Sami: “Lagos uásistaatâ”
- Indonesian: “Lagos”
- Irish: “Lagos”
- Italian: “Lagos”
- Japanese: “ラゴス州”
- Japanese: “レゴス州”
- Javanese: “Lagos”
- Karekare: “Lagos”
- Kazakh: “Лагос”
- Kirghiz: “Лагос”
- Korean: “라고스주”
- Latvian: “Lagosa”
- Lithuanian: “Lagosas (valstija)”
- Lithuanian: “Lagosas”
- Macedonian: “Лагос (сојузна држава)”
- Macedonian: “Лагос”
- Malay: “Lagos”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Lagos Chiu”
- Nigerian Pidgin: “Lagos State”
- Northern Frisian: “Lagos (Bundesstoot)”
- Northern Frisian: “Lagos”
- Northern Sami: “Lagos oassestáhta”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Lagos”
- Norwegian: “Lagos”
- Nupe-Nupe-Tako: “Lagos State”
- Obolo: “Legọs (Agan̄-mkpulu)”
- Obolo: “Legọs”
- Oromo: “Lagos”
- Paiwan: “Lagos State”
- Panjabi: “ਲਾਗੋਸ”
- Persian: “ایالت لاگوس”
- Polish: “Lagos”
- Portuguese: “Estado de Lagos”
- Portuguese: “Lagos”
- Pushto: “لاګوس”
- Romanian: “Statul Lagos”
- Russian: “Лагос”
- Serbian: “Лагос”
- Sindhi: “لاگوس رياست”
- Sinhala: “ලාගෝස් ප්රාන්තය (නයිජීරියාව)”
- Sinhala: “ලාගෝස් ප්රාන්තය”
- Skolt Sami: “Lagoozz vueʹssvaldia”
- Slovenian: “Lagos”
- Somali: “Lagos”
- South Azerbaijani: “لاقوس ایالتی”
- Spanish: “Estado de Lagos”
- Spanish: “Lagos”
- Swahili: “Jimbo la Lagos”
- Swahili: “Lagos State”
- Swahili: “Lagos”
- Swedish: “Lagos”
- Tajik: “Лагос”
- Tatar: “Лагос”
- Thai: “รัฐเลกอส”
- Tumbuka: “Lagos State, Nigeria”
- Turkish: “Lagos Eyaleti”
- Turkish: “Lagos”
- Tyap: “A̱byin Legwot”
- Tyap: “Si̱tet Legwot”
- Ukrainian: “Лагос”
- Urdu: “لاگوس ریاست”
- Uzbek: “Lagos”
- Venetian: “Łagos”
- Venetian: “Ƚagos”
- Waray (Philippines): “Lagos (estado)”
- Waray (Philippines): “Lagos”
- Western Mari: “Лагос”
- Western Panjabi: “لاگوس ریاست”
- Yoruba: “Eko Akete”
- Yoruba: “Èkó”
- Yoruba: “Ìpínlẹ̀ Èkó”
- Yoruba: “Ipinle Lagos”
- Yoruba: “Lagos State”
- Yue Chinese: “拉各斯州”
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